I spent 20 years looking for another way.

I did everything I knew to do.

Medication. Therapy. Yoga. Meditation. Exercise. Diet. Supplements. Mood tracking. Stress management.

Many of those things helped, but for me, something was still missing.

Eventually, I began looking inward.

Through nervous-system regulation, trauma work, IFS, somatic practices, and a deeper understanding of my own patterns, I learned to reconnect with my body and recognize the internal shifts that happened before my moods escalated.

Instead of being afraid of what was happening inside me, I learned to listen.

And little by little, I began to trust myself again.

I know what it’s like to live in fear of the next episode.

In 2006, I was sitting in a hospital bed when I was told I had bipolar disorder.

I felt broken, defective, and terrified about what the diagnosis meant for the rest of my life.

My mother had struggled with bipolar disorder for as long as I could remember, and one thought kept running through my mind:

I’m going to end up just like my mother.

And underneath that was an even deeper fear:

Who is ever going to love me now?

For years, I lived through depression, mania, medication, and multiple hospitalizations—never knowing when the next episode might derail my career, my relationships, or my life.

Today, my life looks very different.

I no longer live constantly bracing myself for the next episode.

I have learned to recognize my own early signs of mania and depression and use the tools I’ve developed to regulate myself before those shifts intensify.

After ten years of working with my psychiatrist, he recently began slowly tapering my Lithium under his supervision. Getting off medication was never my goal, and medication decisions belong between each person and their medical providers.

My goal was to get myself back.

And that's why I do this work today.

After a 25-year career in software, becoming a Certified Yoga Therapist, a 9-year career as a certified Relationship Coach, and continuing my training in IFS and somatic trauma work, I now combine my professional training with the lived experience of navigating bipolar for two decades.

Today, I help professional people with bipolar reconnect with themselves, recognize their early internal shifts, and learn nervous-system regulation tools that can support greater stability in their careers, relationships, and everyday lives.

Because you are more than your diagnosis.

And you deserve the opportunity to build a life that feels stable, meaningful, and fully yours.

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You don't need another framework or lifestyle change for surviving this. You need proof that someone actually got through.