I found my way to life coaching through my experience of loving and losing my fiancé, Tyler, so it's important to me to share our story. 

We started dating in high school - April 2012. Tyler was the charming and kind captain of the football team and I was enamored. He had a way of making everyone in his presence feel seen and important. His energy was magnetizing, and I felt lucky to be chosen and loved by him. 

Like many relationships in college, we struggled to love each other and balance life in a healthy way, so we went our separate ways for a while. But we rekindled in fall of 2015, and our relationship was even stronger from having experienced growth independently. 

We moved in together in 2018, and everything was peachy. Until the pandemic hit. In April 2020, I found out that Tyler had been struggling with addiction. I will never know how long he had been suffering in secret, but I suspect it had been quite a while. The next 2+ years proved to be extremely challenging and heartbreaking. 

I watched as addiction stole Tyler from himself, and this is really when my grief began. His shame and guilt, perpetuated by the stigma, slowly deteriorated his light. Though it did briefly return through his hard work and the support he found in Narcotics Anonymous. During this time, we were able to celebrate a milestone we'd worked really hard for together. We got engaged in June 2022. 

Devastatingly, Tyler died of a drug overdose just 7 weeks after our engagement. The heartache is unlike anything else. Losing the love of my life has changed me forever, but my biggest shift has been embracing the version I am becoming on this side of loss. I have realized that I feel deep pain only because I know great love, so both are gifts in this life.  

Through this journey and life coaching process, I have created purpose from my grief. And the peace and alignment I feel living in this purpose every day is what I want to share with you. Our trials and tribulations are catalysts for growth and evolution if we allow them to be. And I am grateful every day for the opportunity to honor Tyler in creating something meaningful from the fullness of my heartache. 

Everything I do now, the way I live my life, is because of him. I approach life and lead with the love he gave me, which has allowed me to shift from darkness to light. And the world around me is more beautiful, thanks to him. 🤍