Welcome, I’m Susan
Capricorn, Nature-lover, Seeker, Scientist
Transformation facilitator
Experienced navigator of Big Life Changes — the ones that happen to us, and the ones we choose
They say the only constant is change, but as human BEings, we’re rarely comfortable with it. We want a solid identity, we like to have decisions made. Uncertainty is uncomfortable. Not having a plan is terrifying. But as hard as we work to avoid it, change is inevitable. So my question for you is:
What transformation is calling you?
Who do you want to become?
YOUR guide
I am Susan.
Probably like you, I didn’t choose change until I realized it was essential. The need for a shift in being literally smacked me in the face. With hives. Six months of hives on my face. I couldn’t ignore it, couldn’t cover it up, I had to look at it in the mirror every day.
It was like my body was screaming at me to PAY ATTENTION!
Because hinting, whispering, and plain communicating hadn’t worked. I’d been dealing with autoimmune flare ups, pain throughout my body, for several years. I’d tried supplements and changing my diet, but those outside-in fixes didn’t work because, fundamentally, my life was stressful. Work, responsibilities, and not holding boundaries well had taken their toll. I was an unguarded empath, taking on everyone else’s emotions and baggage unconsciously, which added weight to a lifetime of unprocessed stuff I already carried.
It took me six months to realize that the recurring hives on my face were triggered by stress, poor energy management, lack of boundaries and not enough self-care. My body was clearly telling me it couldn’t handle how I was living my life anymore.
Something big needed to shift. And it wasn’t my diet or the supplements I was taking.
It was my relationship with myself.
This realization sent me into the deep work.
In addition to working with a therapist, I found a Transformational coach and worked with a variety of healers to get out of my head and into my heart.
Therapy helps clarify the work to be done, but it’s very cerebral. Very thinky.
Transformational coaching gets underneath the layers of protection your mind creates so you can let them go.
Healers helped me reconnect with my body and soul.
I used to be a science teacher. Thinking things through and applying logic come naturally to me! But when I worked with the transformational coach and healers to drop out of my head into a deeper state of knowing, of trusting myself and my intuition, that’s when my perspective really began to shift.
As I leaned into the idea that the only thing I can control is me — I began to see how much power I actually had to change how I lived, worked, and related to people.
And I realized that to support my physical, mental and emotional wellbeing (and to stop falling into the over-giving/over-doing/over-empathizing traps) I needed to heal my relationship with myself and place more value on BEing than DOing.
I needed to learn to love myself.
This required releasing…
Beliefs that no longer served me around what made me worthy of love
Energy blocks in my body where I’d been storing lifetimes of crap (much of which wasn’t mine)
Stories I’d been telling myself about who I was, how I work, what was important — I did a lot of fact checking and releasing what wasn’t actually true
Today, my life and work support my body (it doesn’t need to yell at me anymore for attention). I have balance and reciprocation in my relationships. I have firm and loving boundaries (and far less frustration and resentment with other people).
But most importantly, I am becoming a woman who is able to offer strength and hold space for others without depleting myself.
Now I use transformational coaching and energy work to create a safe,
nurturing space where my clients can grow into their next stage of Being.
When something in your life is shifting, leading you to reevaluate everything, this is the deeper work that can help you choose:
how you want to move forward,
what kind of life you want to build for yourself, and
who you want to become.
MY Learning JOURNEY
1994
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2008
2012
2023
2024
BS, Science & Health Education
MS, Health Promotion
Reiki I & II
Certified Intrinsic Coach
Certified Deep Transformational Coach
Reiki Master & Intuitive Healer
*All of the above was interspersed with learning through living. The best way to grow.
