You deserve tools, not guilt.

You deserve support, not pressure.

You deserve to feel like yourself again.

That’s what I am here to help you do!

Why The Peaceful Mom Project?

I was not always a happy, peaceful person. My own journey to peace started at age 16 when I realized things had to change. I experienced some very stressful and traumatic circumstances early on that forced me to have to work very hard if I wanted to create and find peace. I struggled to sleep, sometimes getting only an hour or two a night. I was in a constant state of fight or flight, anxiety, spirals, crying and overwhelm. My self-esteem was incredibly low, even though I technically had a lot of outward achievements.

Little did I know that those several years of struggle would actually impact me deeply when I became a mom. Though it took a few years to learn strategies to manage my mood, mind and life from a place of peace, I had no idea how this would impact me as I transitioned to motherhood.

As I braced myself to feel the overwhelm, anxiety and spirals I heard so many women face as they become mothers…it never came. I almost felt awkward that I couldn’t relate to many other moms as I had no mom guilt, no big challenges adjusting to mom life, and I calmly and peacefully enjoyed the newborn phased to the full. I continued to work part-time, parent, and my husband and I even traveled to 10 countries with our one-year-old. Toddler life can be very trying, but I can say I have genuinely never raised my voice or got to the end of my rope.

Now, I am not some super special human. If your life falls apart in your teens, you live knowing you are not special or invincible, or gifted an easy life. But when I finally sat down to wonder what it was that made motherhood peaceful, fun and easier for me. I realized a big reason is that I already had experienced being pushed far beyond my emotional limits while being sleep deprived. At 16 I gained the tools to survive and then thrive despite massive, overwhelming challenges.

For example, I spent years practicing how to detect very small emotional shifts and correct things fast before I spiraled. This is because I must have spiraled thousands of times and not in the “I feel bad” way, in the “I can’t find the strength to leave my room” way. I had to figure out how to prevent it if I was going to live a normal life. I had been so overwhelmed, I completely lost the ability to stuff my emotions, so I had to find a way to actually process them in a way where they helped me instead of hurting me, so I didn’t cry all day. I had to learn how to reframe things and think thoughts that helped me so that I could face a challenge and always rise, versus fall into discouragement or fear. I had to learn how to make friends and build a community while not being insecure or fearing the judgment of others, even though I didn’t meet anyone who could realistically understand or relate to what I had been through.

I was so used to applying these kinds of skills, that I didn’t even notice how much it had become second nature! Thankfully, most moms are not as unfortunate to go through what I did early on. But also, most moms are not as fortunate to have learned these skills before motherhood, because motherhood might be the first time they felt they are beyond their capacity to cope, feeling overwhelm, fear, stress or shame to this level.

The good news is that if you are feeling like motherhood is not always bringing out the best in you, it’s not that something is wrong with you, it just means you need more skills than you needed before you were in charge of another human! When you have these skills, living in peace, joy and love despite what others (including kids) say or do is inevitable! These tools help you let go of expectations others are putting on you, let go of mom guilt, set healthy boundaries, trust yourself and being confident in yourself, even if others do not understand!

After 20 years of therapy and self-help, 8 years of post-graduate education in psychology and 14 years of teaching others these skills, I am a master coach that realizes the importance of creating a coaching program and resources just for moms! I have already put in the decades of work to help you learn these skills fast, without wasting time, or spending more of your motherhood feeling inadequate, lost, lonely, stressed and overwhelmed!

Who is this For?

This program is for you can relate to any of the following:

• Feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated
• Mom anger / losing patience
• Guilt for snapping at your kids
• Feeling far from your best life because you’re exhausted
• Carrying the emotional load of the whole house
• Never having a moment to breathe
• Wondering if you are doing enough, while feeling you’re doing more than you can handle
• Feeling like you “should be more grateful,” but also that you’re drowning