The Start of Unbridled Change

In September of 2008, I was able to bring a dream that I had since I was 15 years old into creation by founding Unbridled Change, a non-profit organization with the mission to provide a sanctuary for our clients and community as they found the hope, healing, and growth they have been searching for.

People often ask me how I decided to go into the Healing and Spiritual Arts. The answer is a bit predictable, yet true. I knew I wanted to help provide a space for healing and reconnecting with your Heart and Soul, through my own journey. I know the struggles, separation, and hopelessness that can happen from past traumas, pains, illnesses, and feeling completely cut off from life to the point where we don’t even feel connected to the reflection in the mirror anymore. AND I also know that even in the worst moments of darkness there are life-lines that can help us find our way into our own light and reclaim the ability to be a lover of life once more!

I was launched on my path of healing at the age of 13 when my life changed on dime. 

In the matter of a month, I went from a young 8th grader that enjoyed hanging out with her friends, playing sports, and exploring all what life can be to a Being that was completely isolated and withdrawn. I had two illnesses collide within my brain and nervous system that caused me to slip into a coma for 7 days. After I awoke, the trauma to my nervous system ripped me of control of my body, cut me off from being able to see and hear, and wiped my sense of self. I didn’t know who I was, or even what I was. I didn’t understand life. 

I was a shell of a person lost in a sea of nothingness, with no reason to engage the human world. Until one day about 6 months after I came from the hospital, bound to a wheelchair and unable to interact with the world around me, my parents, grasping at straws of how to reach their daughter, took a chance to bring me back out the horse farm where I had been taking weekly riding lessons. It turns out that while my Heart refused to engage with the human world, my Soul was willing to engage and connect with the horses. They became my life line in the storm of darkness, chaos, pain, and overwhelm that I felt whenever I tried to connect with a life I didn’t remember.

Horses became my first teachers, post coma, on the art of living, healing, and spiritual connection. 

Without them, I believe I would have remained lost and adrift with no connections to tether me. I share more about how Horses were my teachers in connection in my first book, The Horse Cure – True Stories: Remarkable Horses Bringing Miraculous Change to Humankind, released 2019, and several upcoming works.

While horses had helped me heal my body and find my Heart once again, in 2001, I had an awakening that despite the first stages of healing my body and learning how to live life after trauma, I was actually only partially living and truthfully just barely surviving. While I had a drive to serve others as a budding professional in healing work via equine partnered activities I was trying to convince myself that the only reason I survived the illness at 13 was so that I could give back the same life-line to others that horses had given to me. I didn’t honor any other aspects of my life and was struggling and drowning in wake of a deeply unbalanced life and fractured sense of self. 

That moment of awakening launched me on a now 20 plus year journey of searching for, reclaiming, and remembering the wholeness of who I am.

During my journey I discovered the secret of every Seeker’s journey, what I was seeking was already within me. I was more than a trauma survivor, or a survivor of illness, a healer, a teacher, or any other label I had associated with me. I was more than my experiences and even my “gifts”, I was a multidimensional Being that was here to fully engage and explore and be of joyful service!

From this journey I can now say, I am. I am... a Soul which is a lover of life, connection, and expression. I am walking my own spiritual healing journey of awakening everyday. And everyday I’m so incredibly blessed to be able to come alongside and walk with clients as they are on their own spiritual and healing journey. Together, I believe we are helping each other awaken and explore my favorite question, “How much of my beautiful amazing Soul Self can I experience through my life and the connections I have through it?”

The Bridges help build an internal secure attachment back to our True Self and Soul, helping us rediscover our own innate inner healing ability in connection with our Heart and Soul.

Just like any Spiritual Seeker I have gathered quite a toolbox! My approach to working with and teaching the Healing & Spiritual Arts weaves together different modalities, training, and my own personal experiences I gained on my Soul Remembrance journey and initiations. 

Again, I’m so honored and grateful that through Unbridled Change I have had the privilege to support over thousands of clients, rediscover and connect once more back to themselves, embracing honoring their own lives and the gifts they can share with themselves and others!

I welcome you to Unbridled Change, and hope that the different jewels I gathered on my spiritual journey are nourishing and supportive for you on your journey! Take a look around our site, check out our programs, and please take advantage of all the free resources and support that you will find here from my blog, to free mini-courses, and the free membership level of Connecting with Joy!

Offering you light, love, and joy on your journey!