I like to think of myself as a fellow traveler on this path of life, continually learning, healing, and growing while navigating the complexities of our modern world. Like many of my students, I continue to deepen my sense of inner balance, vitality, and peace by leaning into the tools that help me stay centered when life becomes uncertain or stressful.

Stress touches nearly every aspect of our lives, and from both Eastern and Western perspectives it is understood to play a significant role in many of the health challenges people face today. Qigong and the Positive Psychology practices I gained through my Functional medicine Coaching training have given me ways to quiet my mind, calm my heart, tap into the strengths I already have, and find my center when life pushes me outside my comfort zone. These tools continue to support my own life and well-being, and they shape the way I teach and guide others.

Several years ago, my experience with a cancer diagnosis gave me the gift of awareness and the urgency I needed to truly change how I was living and thinking. I was in the middle of my Functional Medicine coaching studies and had just been introduced to Holden Qigong when the diagnosis arrived, and I have to say, the fear and anxiety were overwhelming. I had already been living with a steady undercurrent of worry and stress for years, and the diagnosis intensified everything, leaving me feeling even more anxious and disconnected from myself. But as I leaned into Qigong, even when I didn’t fully understand the hows and whys, things slowly began to shift.

Through Qigong and the tools I had gained through my coaching studies, I began to see how the emotions I had been carrying and the negative mindset I had lived with were quietly, and not so quietly, harming my health, draining my energy, and hijacking my outlook on life. Western medicine, through surgery, removed the cancer, but it was Qigong and other healing methods that helped me acknowledge and release the heavier emotions I had been holding, allowing me to shift into a healthier, more optimistic, and more positive mindset. That shift has been deeply healing and truly life-changing.

The tools that carried me through that time are still practices I lean on today, and I am honored to share them with you in the hope that they bring a little more courage, resilience, and peace to whatever life may be bringing your way.

The Twin Oaks Circle grew out of this very intention…to offer a space where people can feel supported, encouraged, and grounded as they build their own path toward vitality, healing and prevention.

I believe wellness is more than exercise and nutrition… it is shaped by the many branches that support our everyday lives. Our relationships, our sense of connection, the way we sleep, breathe, move, and care for ourselves, and the mindset we bring to each day all influence how we feel.

Most of us carry a natural negativity bias, a protective instinct meant to keep us safe, yet one that can also create stress, worry, fear and insecurity. A core part of the Twin Oaks Method is learning to gently shift that bias. Through Qigong, mindful movement, breathwork, and Positive Psychology principles (the practice of using our existing strengths…yes, you have many), we learn to move toward inspiration, confidence, gratitude, and inner peace. It takes practice… and practice makes progress.

Each class is designed to meet you where you are, honoring your body’s needs while guiding both body and mind toward greater vitality, balance, and ease. My training in Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, Positive Psychology, Functional Medicine, and Coaching Competencies allows me to weave movement, mindset, and nervous system support into a method that nurtures whole-person wellness.

Whether we are practicing Qigong, exploring B.A.S.I.C.S.+, warming up for pickleball, or blending coaching with mindful movement, my intention is the same… to help you cultivate strength, flexibility, calm, resilience, and a mindset that softens stress and opens to what is possible with confidence, courage, gratitude, self-love, and compassion.