About

My girls. They are my heart. Their life is my journey. My whole identity has changed since I’ve become their mom. MOM. That is how I identify first. All the other pieces of me are secondary, not unimportant, just not as important. As a therapist I know the presentation of this hierarchy could inspire a debate, but the truth is, little can stand next to the substantial presence of creating, shaping, and guiding another life. This is how we all get to these spaces after all, of blogs and forums and communities of other moms, looking to relate, share, comfort and inspire.

An equally important piece of me is being a wife. It seems difficult to imagine, especially in this phase of our young family, that mother and wife could survive independent of each other.

The ART part of the Heartful Journey is my creative spirit. I am a registered board certified practicing art therapist. I am an artist, a photographer, a jeweler, a knitter, a poet, and an aspiring seamstress. I am the creator of the handmade trinkets at Olivia’s Eden.

I am a dreamer, cautiously hopeful. I am funny, sarcastic. I make other people laugh, sometimes.

On my journey of mothering thus far, I have been inspired, comforted, annoyed, criticized, and complimented. I have been applauded and judged, questioned and validated. There have been countless times where I have felt completely alone, as though I was the first to ever undertake such a task, as though I myself invented, mothering. And then I realized, quite quickly, that all these gems I was collecting along the way were the well-known secrets of motherhood.