My Story
Early Memories
I think my first moment of knowing happened when my grandfather died. I was 4 years old, and recall sitting on the stairs and overhearing my mother in the kitchen talking about it, but I already knew it had happened. Honestly, until writing that sentence just now, I hadn’t recognized it as a moment of knowing. I guess the gifts that are ours show up early whether we remember or understand them or not.
Somewhere around age 10, I recall standing on a school bus with my hands on either side of the aisle, having this incredible moment of stillness and thinking in extreme clarity, “There HAS to be more than THIS.” THIS was life on planet earth. At that young age, I was already aware that I wanted a deeper understanding of life.
My early days were full of Sunday school and church. I attended a small Christian country school that had 40 students, K-8. I loved all the Bible stories and the social structure of church in a small town. It was an integral part of our daily life that I’ll always treasure and remember fondly.
I attended Illinois College, a small Presbyterian college, where we were required to take 2 religion classes. In one of those classes, I learned there were 2 creation stories in the Bible. This was extremely upsetting to me as I had spent my life learning about the Bible, and I thought I ‘knew’ stuff. In that moment, I knew that I needed to understand more about other religions and what people believed in the world.
Not long after that, I attended church again, and the sermon spoke of how wrong being gay was. As a young woman discovering her sexual preferences, I left church that day and didn’t return other than for the occasional special event. I could not support a societal structure that didn’t support who I was becoming–a young lesbian woman. I knew who I was and it was not because of how I was brought up. It just was who I was.
Awakening to Spirit
So now, I’ve turned my back on everything I knew about religion and spirituality and started pursuing the esoteric. A friend introduced me to the Seth Material and my mind was forever expanded. I started reading and never stopped.
In my late 20’s, I moved to Portland, OR, and spent the next 20+ years deepening my knowledge of world religions while investing hours upon hours in self-improvement classes, seminars, and workshops. I attended Spiritual events with Amma and enjoyed a variety of meditation retreats. I spent many years working with LifeForce Education and volunteering with their events. I worked my way through T Harv Eker’s work.
I was committed to finding this connection and joy that I read in all the books. I wanted a spiritual awakening, that enlightenment moment that so many wrote about.
I started meditating daily, longing to discover the stillness.
I also entered into psychoanalysis that lasted for almost 10 years. I was determined to discover who I was and find that connection to the Divine so that I wouldn’t feel so lonely.
I was relentless in my spiritual pursuit. I wanted to know how this world worked and how we fit within it. I used the knowledge that I gained to create the life that I wanted.
You can read more about the depth and breadth of my spiritual journey in Modern Ascension: Stories From the Spiritual Paths of High Initiates.
Living Intentionally
At the point I started High School, I was a focused young woman. Learning came naturally to me, so I spent my extra time working hard to get good grades. A bit of a perfectionist arose within me and I completed High School as valedictorian. That was the beginning of a drive to be successful.
I landed in a Computer Science class in college as part of being a Math major and I fell in love. My career started early as I worked a 40-hour job as a computer programmer while completing my last semester of college. That job was with Capitol Records (so cool to learn how CD’s are made!) My career then took many leaps. I worked for Hewlett Packard and Nike. My work-life quickly went from the computer programmer to the project manager and then manager of teams. I had a unique ability to understand technology and communicate in terms that made sense to non-technical people. My gift of seeing the big picture and connections allowed me to easily step into management and communicate to all levels in an organization. Through my work, I had the opportunity to travel the world and easily navigated exploring other cultures and countries.
I was focused and I loved working, often working 50-60 hours a week. Mostly, I didn’t mind because I loved creating! I know how to create, and those that worked with me put me in roles that allowed me to bring projects to completion or take over ones that were struggling and turn them around.
My roles in different companies continued. I moved up the ladder and managed large numbers of people and millions of dollars. Eventually, I realized that executive management was not where I wanted to be. I returned to project management, where I could more closely be part of the direction and intentional creation of things.
After finding the love of my life, we knew that we were to raise children together. We chose to adopt within the foster care system in the US and we have two beautiful daughters that are the most amazing gifts in our life. As the stay-at-home mom, I had the opportunity to return to one of my most favorite things, technology. I built a successful business as a tech angel doing websites and technical support for lightworkers.
I attribute my career success to the spiritual path I followed during my years in Corporate America. My spiritual seeking and perpetual desire to create and understand how the universe worked allowed me to succeed in my career and life.
I live the exact life that I desire. I am in a loving, committed relationship with two beautiful children. We live in the house of our dreams with an ocean view. I love the work that I do and the opportunities that I have to serve. Life is incredible!
I can help you step forward and create a structure to allow your Higher Self to serve through you. I’ve coached 100’s of people over the years in topics ranging from life to career to business, spirituality, entrepreneurship, and more.
Knowing the Ascended Masters
I’ve known the Ascended Masters for a long time. I first learned about who they were in my late 20’s, which is over 20 years ago! Eek! 🙂 I’ll never forget the first time I read Unveiled Mysteries, which chronicles Godfrey Ray King’s journey with St Germain. I was on a plane flying overseas. I finished the book and started it again. I wanted to feel and experience every moment of this Ascended Master.
Over the past 20+ years, I’ve read many books and teachings and listened to many channelings from the Ascended Masters, including the I AM discourses, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, A Course in Miracles, The Way of Mastery, A Course of Love, and more.
In 2016, I discovered the Ascended Masters Portal at alphaimaing.co.nz. I had searched for the term ‘Ascended Masters Free’ as part of an exercise from a book I was reading to ask for what you wanted in the universe. The site showed up and I knew I had found home.
I have always loved the Ascended Masters and felt like they were my friends. Finding the Alpha Imaging site was clearly on my path. About a year before, I had started rereading the I AM Discourses and working with the violet flame every day. I knew I wanted to ascend in this lifetime, and I knew I needed to get busy if that was going to happen. Then, the portal showed up in my life, and there were tools and support and CURRENT teachings about today’s world being shared from people working with the Ascended Masters every day.
You can read more about my ascension journey in the book, Modern Ascension.
As I journeyed through the clearing of karma, which is the process of ascension, my life continued to change and improve. I discovered joy in more moments, I allowed peace, and I found contentment with life.
I’ve completed the 9th initiation with my Higher Self on the path of Ascension. This means that my Higher Self has completely merged into my holy heart and is walking with me in physical form now.
I now walk with my Higher Self, Jyahlien. She has guided me to share her gifts through me with the world. I stand in service each day asking her, “How would you like to serve through me?”. She is an incredible goddess focussed on bringing a new understanding of the divine feminine to earth. She is on the 6th ray of the goddess. Her presence has brought forward spiritual gifts within me that allow me to share healing and coaching services with you. She is a healer, and she wants to influence the world and share her energy with you.
Embracing New Expressions
In early 2025, I was deepening my writing skills and attended a workshop in Iceland. There, I was introduced to Havening® and was so deeply moved that I chose to become a practitioner. The certification process transformed my life. I discovered old patterns and habits I was finally able to transform and release. It was so powerful that I'm now honored to walk others through that same release, helping them shift and reflect a deeper version of themselves through Havening®.
2025 continued its journey of transformation. In the fall, I landed in a webinar with Dr. Claire Zammit about her Woman Centered Coaching programs. Having spent most of my adult life in personal growth and transformation, I was intrigued by her framework specifically for women. When I asked my inner guidance if I was meant to enroll, the answer was a strong yes. Honestly, I was surprised. I hadn't planned to pursue coaching at a deeper level. I'd done a couple of certificate programs before and lost interest. Yet Claire's work carries a different energy. Her focus on the feminine current of growth and transformation is brilliant.
It's almost a year later now, and I'm a provisional Woman Centered Coach, thrilled to share a framework of transformation that simply works. I've personally experienced it again and again over the past six months, and I'm continually in awe of its depth. My life, and my experience of life, is deeper and richer because of it.
In early 2026, I had the rare experience of spending several months with no responsibilities. Both of my children had moved out, and we spent months on a cruise ship, then weeks in Italy. While I was finishing the coaching certification, I set an intention of stillness, to see what would emerge and how I wanted to serve. So often in my life, I create. Ideas flow, and even when what I build is incredible, some part of it isn't quite in alignment. This time, I challenged the project manager and achiever in me to not create. It was hard. It was exactly what I needed.
That stillness showed me how to create from stillness itself, from a place of coherence. It's been incredible, and I'm thrilled to now be in a place where I can simply let the unique expressions that want to emerge through me, emerge.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, I also discovered Robert Grant's work with the Codex Universalis and Architect+ on Gaia. So much was happening at once, and yet the work with the Codex brought me back to something I've loved my whole life: a fascination with breath.
I remember, in my twenties, reading a book about breathing and learning to shift from shallow, upper-chest breath into something deeper, rooted in the diaphragm. That early curiosity never really left. Over the years it grew into following HeartMath's coherence work, Joe Dispenza's breathwork, and James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. I read Nestor's book during my own cancer removal journey, and practices like mouth taping at night became part of how I healed and how I learned to sleep deeply again.
All of these expressions, gathered over the past year, have brought me to where I am now: a clear desire to let coherence move through me and out into the world, through breathwork, Havening®, coaching, writing, and speaking.
If any part of this story feels familiar, like you're circling your own patterns, longing for your own stillness, or sensing there's a deeper version of you ready to emerge, I'd love to meet you there.
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