COACHING SAVED MY LIFE.
And the courage to stop hiding is where it all began.
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
Before I say anything else, know this: I AM JUST LIKE YOU. I will be the first to tell you that I am stumbling through life just like everyone else (yes, we are all in this mystery together!). I have found that openness, honesty and vulnerability are what connect us in a real and powerful way, so I will always be right here with you, falling down and getting back up, learning and evolving each and every time. I felt alone for most of my life because I was too afraid to share what was real.
I NOW know that feeling alone is a choice and we can choose differently at any time.
I am here for you as a companion, a mirror and a guide to love and support you as you walk through life, sharing tools, truth, perspective and wisdom from my own personal experience. I am here to offer my years of intense, heartbreaking, exhilarating and soul-freeing self-exploration, and my experience of learning to courageously choose a life of absolute integrity and personal freedom. The rest is up to you.
My lifelong adventure is to become more and more me, and that is my hope for you—to become more and more you.
After decades of trying pretty much everything else, I now know that showing up as our true, authentic selves is not only possible but mandatory to live the life we crave.
I will never forget the day I met my life coach, now my Spirit Mom and the woman who saved my life—literally. My only reason for booking that first session was because I felt completely lost. That is quite possibly the only thing that I knew at the time. Well, I also knew that I was bulimic and miserable, so I guess I knew three things. And day by day with her love and wisdom, I peeled away layers of all that I am not to reveal who I truly am, and to step into a life that lets my soul SHINE. I am still a perfectly imperfect work in progress, but I can honestly say that I LOVE who I am today.
If you choose to work with me you’ll hear me talk a lot about freedom, because that is exactly what this path has been for me—a path toward complete personal freedom.
It meant letting go of my past and various debilitating addictions, and learning to love myself unconditionally. It meant uncovering the courage to speak my truth no matter what, having faith that the truth will always set me free—secrets and all. And breaking patterns of codependency with partners, friends and family, patterns of people-pleasing, pretending and performing.
To me, personal freedom means courageously (not to be confused with fearlessly) going our own way, letting go of expectations from others and the world around us, and trusting ourselves as we continue to follow our own personal compass. When we choose courage, fear becomes a friend that pushes us to grow, and we can start to see the unknown as the place where MAGIC happens. This is and will always be my work, for the rest of my life.
I can’t tell you what a session with me looks like because yours will be completely different—they all are. We won’t know how it will unfold until we connect and share our stories; only then will we know how the journey begins. But what I can tell you is that I am here for you to help lead you to the life your soul craves—a life of integrity, of self-love, passion, purpose, peace, FREEDOM. Only you know.
Whatever your soul is longing for, let that be your aim and let your heart lead the way. And i will be right here with you every step of the way.
(Oh, and I promise we'll have some fun while we're at it!)
My Commitment to YOU:
- A safe, loving and compassionate space to speak freely, openly and confidentially. I will always show up for you fully present with a big, open heart to be with you exactly as you are in that moment. Remember—I am just like you. Having a safe space to share my heart, my soul and my shame saved my life.
- Full transparency. I would never expect you to entrust me with your life without me sharing about mine. There are challenges I have overcome (eating disorders, addiction and sexual abuse to name a few) and areas where I continue to struggle (oh heyyyy approval!). As much as I am here for you, I am also here with you—always.
- Integrity has been and continues to be my life’s work. While I used to think of integrity as right and wrong, I now see it as a way of life. You will only know one Jamie—out with friends, at work, at home, alone, with God. I will always remain committed to a life of alignment. What you see is what you get, and what you get is a damn solid take-no-prisoners badass who practices what she preaches.
- Fiercely loving truth-telling is my jam. It’s what I deeply value in others and what I am committed to offering in my work. The truth is hard sometimes, often deeply painful even, but my most profound growth has been when someone (most often a coach or mentor) has had the courage to tell me the truth. So know that because I care, I will always tell you the truth.
- A damn good sense of humor. I laugh a lot, Like a lot a lot. Life is f*cking insane sometimes, and if we don’t have a sense of humor (and also a fair amount of foul language) it’s going to be really, really hard. I always say that I take life super seriously and not at all seriously at the same time. Seriously.
- Homework! Does anyone else love homework like I do?! The last thing I want is for you to come to a session and get some awesome little nuggets, and then go about your merry way for a week or two business as usual. Hell nahhhhh. We’ve got to integrate! So be it a mental exercise, writing assignment or a physical practice, I’m always encouraging integration—because that is when transformation happens!
(Randomness like popcorn, adorable animal videos and road trips!)