Then came the conversation that cracked everything open. My boss, the CHRO, told me my performance had already been slipping, and now I wasn’t fully present. If I didn’t choose medical leave, she would choose it for me. It landed like a punch to the gut. I felt exposed. Ashamed. Quietly relieved. And deeply conflicted.

I had worked so hard to get where I was—National Director of Human Resources & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and successor to the CHRO—and yet, somewhere inside, I knew I didn’t want to be there anymore. My soul had been nudging me for months, but I didn’t know how to listen without everything falling apart. That day, I asked for time to make an empowered decision. And then, almost symbolically, I stepped straight into an executive leadership training session.

When I shared what had just happened, the facilitator asked me a simple question:

“Are you a stand for your well-being?”

I answered instantly. “Yes.”

She paused and said it was the most conviction she’d heard from me in a long time. In that moment, something clicked. This wasn’t new. This was who I had always been. And this was my choice to embody what I stand for.

I was living out of sync with my soul, ignoring the quiet protests of my body until they became impossible to ignore. Getting sick wasn’t random. It was my system untethering from a life that no longer fit.

I went on medical leave. Around the same time, a mentor I deeply trusted told me, based on what he saw energetically, that I was dealing with Epstein-Barr and chronic fatigue. Traditional medicine would take months to confirm what my body already knew. But I didn’t wait.

I committed fully to healing. My days became devoted to rebuilding: nutrition, supplements, trauma release, frequency work, walking, rest. It was intensive. Terrifying. All-consuming. And it worked.

As my body healed, something else awakened. I returned to Reiki. I began offering sessions. I taught. I trained deeply in Akashic healing and intuition. I learned how energy moves through my body, and how to trust it without outsourcing my knowing. I discovered that intuition doesn’t require permission, ritual, or validation. It simply requires presence.

Internally, everything shifted. I stopped hiding the parts of myself I once thought were “too much” or “too strange.” I became ruthless about alignment. If something drained me, I said no—jobs, relationships, opportunities—no matter how logical they looked on paper. I chose nourishment over approval.

Now, I help others because I recognize them. The ones who feel the truth stirring inside but still look outside themselves for confirmation. The ones who know there’s more alignment available, and are ready to live it.

I am a stand for well-being.

Now, I help spiritual seekers achieve clarity so they can take aligned action forward, and so their lives reflect who they truly are, inside and out.