This work grew from my own healing, the questions I kept asking, and the experiences people trusted me to share.
For years I moved through the world carrying unresolved trauma that shaped every relationship I entered, every pattern I repeated, every version of love I accepted that was smaller than what I was worth. I thought I loved myself. Most of us do, until something shows us otherwise.
When I began healing through yoga, chakra work, somatic practice, and trauma-informed approaches, I realized something that changed the direction of my life: the tools that helped me weren't easy for most people to find in one place.
I had to piece things together country by country, teacher by teacher, and practice by practice. I didn't think people should have to do that alone.
I decided that wasn't good enough.
I ran live webinars, sent thousands of individual messages, and collected 1,148 responses from 882 people. I spent hours organizing what they shared and asking the questions I couldn't stop wondering about.
My background is in tech and sales. I built revenue systems for startups, became an international sales director within eighteen months of starting my career, and helped close an $80,000 sale in 48 hours after customer feedback revealed a product gap. I learned to listen for what people actually need, then build from what I hear.
What people told me was that they weren't broken. They were repeating patterns they hadn't been given useful language to understand, in a dating landscape that didn't meet them where they were.
So I built one that does.
This research is exploratory and shaped by participants' experiences. It isn't clinical research, and it doesn't represent the general population. It keeps helping me ask better questions and decide what to build next.
I know what it's like to live inside the patterns I now help people recognize. My own healing raised questions that became a practice, a research project, and practical tools.
I didn't borrow a ready-made model. I built this from the questions and experiences that brought me here.
From my healing. And from yours.
I know what it feels like to find a framework that promises transformation and then realize it was designed for someone else's wound. Someone else's timeline. Someone else's version of ready.
That's why every path inside Mindful Dating™ starts with who you are, not who a model assumes you to be.
Because I was once placed into a box that didn't fit.
I know how much that costs.
And I built this so it wouldn't cost you the same.
Mindful Dating is an educational and coaching-based practice for understanding what repeats, what those patterns may be protecting or pursuing, and how to make choices that support self-trust, peace, and intentional connection.
The Dating Diagnostic™ is a practical assessment that helps people look at their relationship patterns, needs, expectations, and decisions. It grew from the same question at the heart of this work: what's happening beneath the label, and what might help someone see it more clearly?
My background in tech sales and founder-led teams shaped how I listen for the gap between what someone says they need and what their choices may be showing. I bring that curiosity to relationships without reducing people to a score or a type.
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