I have not been vocal about sharing the story of all that I went through to breaking free from a destructive 19 year relationship and marriage starting from nothing.

I stayed long after I knew it was over, and the biggest reason was fear of financially providing for myself and my daughters as a solopreneur and the income ebbs and flows that can come with that.

I was a stay at home mom for my 3 kids childhoods, working part time jobs here and there, and eventually going back to school to become a counsellor.

As a counsellor, my income was capped at how many clients I had that day.

I had an idea to start a multi-practitioner holistic wellness center, which at the time was a great accomplishment, it was the first of it’s kind in my community, and I had worked with clients for a few years before realizing running a center was NOT my dream, I decided to move my business online, and handed off the center to another popular organization in my city. 

Somewhere in all of that, I also had to claim bankruptcy due to maxing out my credit cards and I had collection agencies calling multiple times every day. 

My goal from then on was to rebuild my credit back up, and stay out of debt.

I started Awakening Women in 2019 I was just beginning to talk about my experiences from the lens of ‘other women’ experiencing narcissistic dynamics in their marriages, but really they were MY experiences – at first.

Until I started writing about it, and working with women in groups and 1:1 coaching and started to see rapid growth in my business that I was not expecting to happen so quickly.