I Spent 25 Years at War With My Own Body
I spent 25 years at war with my own body. Now I help women and young athletes stop fighting themselves — and start living in their strength.
I was a competitive soccer player who thought I understood nutrition. Eat less. Train more. Push through. I looked fine from the outside — showed up, competed, smiled. Nobody asked. Nobody caught it.
What was actually happening underneath? I was exhausted, hormonally depleted, and so disconnected from my own hunger and body signals that I had stopped trusting myself completely. The playbook I had been given wasn't written for women. And nobody told me that until it was almost too late.
The turning point came in 2018. I was sitting in my bathroom and my two daughters — three and two years old at the time — were in the bathtub. I looked at them and realized with absolute clarity: if I don't heal this, I am going to pass it on. Not because I want to. Because that's how it works.
So I did the work.
I threw myself into functional nutrition, hormone health, nervous system regulation, mindset and identity work, breathwork, and somatic healing. What I discovered didn't just change my body — it changed everything about how I live, how I coach, and what I believe women and young athletes actually need.
Today I'm a certified life coach, breathwork facilitator, and certified personal trainer. I've co-owned Surge Athletics — a performance gym in Colorado — with my husband Brandon since 2010. I've spent over 15 years working with athletes and women, and I've built two programs that I genuinely wish had existed when I needed them most.
The SHIFT Project is for women 35–50 who are doing everything right and still feel stuck — in their bodies, their energy, their relationship with food and themselves. It's built on four pillars: Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual. Because lasting change doesn't happen in one dimension.
Fueled is for female athletes 13 and up and the parents who love them. It's the program I needed at 14. Real education about fueling a training body. Honest conversations about the emotional side of food and body image. A safe space to work through what most programs pretend doesn't exist.
I'm not building these programs because I have it all figured out. I'm building them because I know exactly what it costs a woman — and a girl — to go without this information. And I've decided that cost is too high.
The information exists. The path is clear. You just need someone who has walked it to walk it with you.
That's what I'm here for.
Certified Life Coach · Breathwork Facilitator · Certified Personal Trainer · Co-owner Surge Athletics since 2010
The SHIFT Project · Fueled for Her · @fueledforher · totalshiftproject.com
