My story…

Hello my love! First of all, thank you for being here and receiving my story.

From a young age, I felt a strong sense of connection to spirituality and the unseen realms of consciousness. Although I was raised in the Catholic church, as I grew older I found it increasingly difficult to resonate with religion because I didn’t see many positive or healthy examples of spirituality. My relationship to God was always part of me and I still had a strong connection to the divine.

While I was a social child and often played with my friends and neighbors, I also treasured my time in solace and often found myself spending countless hours alone, especially as my parents were busy working full time to to provide for my brother and me. The adventurous spirit within me would lead me to wander in the woods for countless hours when I was alone. It was in that time where I was lost in the woods, that I felt the most connected to myself and the world. When I would go to friends houses or have them over at mine, I would always want to get lost in nature and show them the world that was so innate to me instead of watching shows or gossiping. I always had a deep appreciation and respect for nature because of the wisdom and clarity it would effortless provide. Everything else I was growing up around in “real life” with my family and with school did not feel as safe or natural to me.

Dysfunction was normal in my family, which took me years to recognize, and in middleschool I would get bullied by mean girls. It made it difficult for me to feel connected with friends, so I learned to find my own ways to cope and escape from it. I would get lost in music, books, and learning on the internet to take me away from the chaos that was happening within my home. I have always been extremely sensitive and felt everything super deeply, which led me to be diagnosed with ADHD, depression, anxiety, and develop eating disorders. I started to have mini awakenings at this time to how society was so far disconnected from where it should be and it created a deep visceral pain in me because I wanted to change it.

In highschool, violence in my home started to become a real concern while my brother was struggling with his own mental health, and while my parents were doing what they could to try to de-escalate the situation, I started to fly under the radal and rebel against them, going on my own solo darker path. I had so much pain in my heart and was so numb, I didn’t know how to process it. I was abused by another student at school, and on top of it—most people in school heard about it and took my abuser’s side by harassing me and pressuring me to drop charges. I gave in to make it go away, but it happened at my own demise.

Fast forward years later, I was struggling with alcohol abuse, had been hospitalized twice in one year, was in multiple car accidents. I had almost daily panic attacks and paranoia. My nervous system was a complete wreck.

I went to indidivual and group therapy (and started taking it seriously) in 2013, where I learned dialectal behavioral therapy (DBT) techniques that centered around developing stronger presence and mindfulness in my daily life. There was a lot of work I needed to do on myself, but suddenly the paranoia started to simmer down and I was slowly able to take small steps towards regaining control over my life. I remember distinctly thinking, if I didn’t make changes I was going to die young. Unfortunately, that sentiment became chilling to me in the following years as I started losing dear friends who I was close with at the time.

I poured myself into school and focused on excelling, and graduated at the top of my class with honors while also working full time and conducting my own Anthropological research on sex tourism in the Carribbean for my senior thesis. The research was published in the student panel of the American Sociological Association in 2017.

Once I finished my Bachelor’s, I needed something new to focus on while I continued my job search, and that’s when I became obsessed with studying nutrition and fitness because I was feeling physically awful. My habits were still unhealthy and I was breaking out in hives, rashes, and experiencing autoimmune symptoms that Allergists couldn’t pin point. I had digestive issues that left me bedridden and sciatica and migraines that made it difficult to drive without pulling over to get sick. Over time, I was able to completely heal the mysterious ailments through changing my lifestyle and removing the things from my life that were unhealthy for me. I was working in marketing but desired to help people and when I got offered a personal training position in 2018, I jumped right in and was able to help others heal and live healthier as well.

In 2019, I started my fitness business Fit by XT, LLC, which I later rebranded to Mind & Body Alignment, LLC, as a holistic wellness and life solution focused coaching business after cracking open and expanding into my spiritual awakening through meditation and doing my own inner work. It is now my mission to empower people to self-heal and learn how to reclaim their own power physically, mentally, & spiritually.

Over the last 5+ years in business, I have gone through many seasons, ups and downs, and have gained deeper clarity on where my strengths are with counseling and guiding individuals. In taking the necessary steps back to do deeper healing work on myself, it’s allowed me to expand my heart, as well as find deep love for and clarity with who I am, and the imprint I am here on Earth to create. Through my recent studies of quantum physics and somatic healing, I’ve found safety in the fact that we are truly all connected to all things and one another and while my experiences are mine, they are a piece of the collective conscious that we share.

As I have evolved, so has my practice. What once started as strictly fitness & nutrition programming as grown into a full physical, mental, and spiritual transformation for my clients.

Come play in my world!

Experience

ISSA Certified Personal Trainer (2018)
TRX Qualified Coach (2018)
ISSA Certified Nutritionist (2019)
2x Bikini Competitor (2019, 2021)
Certified Conscious Life Coach (2021)
Integrative Somatic Practitioner (2024)
Coached 200+ clients since 2019.