My Path to Mindfulness

I’m a certified meditation teacher and writer who previously advised leaders and shaped public narratives as the co-founder and CEO of Inkhouse, a public relations firm. My work has always focused on people—how we make meaning, hold responsibility, and stay grounded in moments that matter.

Inside Inkhouse, we set out to prove that what’s good for people is good for business, centering humanity in decision-making and publishing six books of employee essays to help us step across difference and into community. I also used my platform to advocate for state and federal public policy change aimed at making workplaces, and the world, more equitable.

My professional life has revolved around the power of stories and how they influence individuals, organizations, and entire cultures. Mindfulness helped me see that not all the stories we believe are true, especially the ones that tell us we’re lacking or unworthy. When I began meditating in 2005, I had spent decades living inside that story.

Mindfulness became a portal to clarity, compassion, and self-trust as I moved through healing trauma and panic attacks, chronic migraines, activism, founding and growing a company, raising two children, and recovering from breast cancer. It also deepened my capacity for joy and wellbeing. Through practice, I learned that thoughts aren’t facts, emotions are information (not instructions) and wisdom lives in the body.

While many come to mindfulness seeking calm, as I once did, my practice opened into something more. It taught me how to be here inside the big and small moments that shape my life, and that I didn’t have to do it alone. As I first understood at Inkhouse, healing happens in community when we are seen and accepted as we are. Spiritual friendship is transformative.

I became a meditation teacher to help bring that same experience to others. I completed my training through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program (MMTCP), led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and later trained as a mindfulness mentor with Banyan, and as a trauma-sensitive mindfulness teacher with David Treleavan.

My work is for people seeking to create a more compassionate world, for themselves and those in their midst. I work with corporate and non-profit leaders, activists, creatives, caretakers, and those navigating major life transitions and challenges. I welcome people from all religions and spiritual practices and often weave in wisdom from literature, art, music, different cultures and identities, and nature into my work.