I'm a mother of two (currently 12 and 9) and a woman who was absolutely convinced she was prepared for motherhood.

After all, I was already a psychologist specializing in family therapy and maternal wellness.

Then motherhood broke me open.

It introduced me to parts of myself I didn't know were still running the show: overfunctioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing and the quiet belief that if I just tried harder, gave more, and held everything together, life would eventually feel easier.

Spoiler alert: it didn't.  Trust me, I tried.

What changed everything was realizing that the emotions I wanted to fix were actually pointing me toward the life I wanted to create. Exhaustion, resentment, frustration, and discomfort weren't signs that something was wrong. They were invitations to examine the inherited patterns shaping how I lived, loved, and led.

That journey became my greatest education.

It revealed motherhood as an initiation, a developmental transition that invites women to transform challenge into wisdom, awareness into action, and everyday life into a path of personal evolution.

From that experience came the Initiated Mother Framework: supporting women to reclaim their power, break inherited cycles and consciously become the women they are here to be.