Getting really personal this week and tracing a pattern I just recognized in myself: my instinct to go dismissive after a fallout, wipe the whole thing out, and "keep it moving" instead of actually processing it. I unpack where that pattern came from and why it's been costing me the chance to grieve and reconcile what I've lost.

I share two chapters of my story I needed to reconcile — ten years as a teacher I never fully loved, and years working in the service industry. I talk candidly about the shame I carried around both, and how I'm now able to see the actual skills and lessons I carried forward from each — community-building from the classroom, and a deep drive to help women reclaim their worthiness from my service industry years.

This episode is about the parts of my story I'd been dismissing, minimizing, or hiding, and why nothing I've lived was wasted once I was willing to find the thread.

In this episode:

• The dismissive pattern I just uncovered and why it's not the strength I thought it was
• Reconciling 10 years of a teaching career that I didn't love
• My years working in the seedier side of the service industry and the shame I carried around it
• How love and money wounds mirror each other
• What 12-step recovery taught me about surrender and rewriting old beliefs
• Why every experience I've lived — even the ones that feel shameful or unrelated — has a place in my story

If you're ready to start reconciling your stories — especially the ones that have kept you stuck in shame and dismissal — Rewritten is the program for you.

Start with a free Name the Narrative Session, and let's find the first thread together.

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About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.