My partnership with horses started at age five, growing up in rural Wisconsin, US. As a child I experienced a very free and relaxed interaction with horses prior to competitive riding, and I know that some of my most valuable life lessons came from my time in partnership with horses. My career in education brought me into contact with a wide range of students in numerous countries.  When my family moved to Portugal in 2016, however, I was lost. I sought out horses as my refuge and reminder of everything that felt familiar and fulfilling.  Not only did the grounded presence and utter joy of being with horses bring me back to myself, but my horse began to point the way for me to bring together my experience in education with my life-long love of spending time with and learning from these powerful and gentle animals.

After much personal exploration, I joined The Reflective Horse® Mastery program, led by Cassandra Ogier, in California, USA.  The program changed my life and continues to allow me deepen my embodied awareness and embrace my truth and inner knowing.  In turn, as I shed layers and free myself, the horses are here on their own respective journeys, each one unique in their strengths, gifts, wounds, and healing paths.

I humbly continue to grow personally and professionally alongside my two precious children, and being a mama in this lifetime has been my deepest honor. Each horse with whom I have the privilege of caring for also guides me, pointing the way forward as life unfolds in every way.