Hi! I’m Tina.
The spaces and tools I create are shaped by my very own journey of recovery and healing with practices that continue to support me.
I grew up in an alcoholic home, where unpredictability lived just beneath the surface. From the outside, my life looked picture-perfect. Inside, I learned early how to survive.
I learned how to stay composed… how to manage emotions, read the room, and keep the peace. I learned how to hold everything together, even when I felt disconnected from myself. Those patterns followed me into adulthood, shaping how I coped, how I related, and how I moved through the world.
Like many people, my relationship with alcohol began innocently. Socially. Casually. As a way to unwind. Over time, it became something else entirely… a way to cope, to numb, to get through what I didn’t yet have the tools to face.
What started as relief slowly tightened its grip.
After nearly two decades, I reached a breaking point that brought brutal clarity. I didn’t recognize myself anymore. I felt hollow, exhausted, and deeply disconnected from the life I was living. For the first time, I was truly afraid… not just of where I was, but of where I was headed if nothing changed.
That moment was the beginning of my return.
What followed was a slow, sacred unraveling. A rebuilding rooted in presence, breath, and honesty. I healed through quiet rituals, nervous system awareness, and learning how to listen to myself again.
Sobriety was the doorway.
Healing became the practice.
Over time, I began to live differently. With intention. With discernment. With deep respect for my own rhythm and energy. Not striving to be more… but remembering that I already was enough.
That way of living is what shapes everything I create now.
I design spaces, tools, and offerings rooted in lived experience… grounded, accessible, and supportive of real life. To offer a place to pause, reconnect, and come back to yourself… in your own time, in your own way.
My Life Today and What Guides My Work
Today, I move through life with intention and awareness. Consciously, not perfectly.
I pay attention to my inner rhythms, my energy, and the signals my body offers. I no longer push past myself or override what I feel in the name of productivity, performance, or proving anything. I build my life around being present with what's here.
That shift changed everything.
Healing comes from learning how to stay with yourself… especially in moments of discomfort, uncertainty, and transition. From slowing down enough to listen. From rebuilding trust… not just in your mind, but in your body and your truth.
Presence is an active relationship with your life.
The practices I return to… breath, awareness, gentle structure, and nervous system support, help me stay grounded and responsive instead of reactive. They support steadiness, clarity, and self-leadership in a way that feels sustainable and real.
This is the lens through which I create everything I offer… as invitations. Spaces to soften. Tools to support reconnection. Resources that meet you where you are… without pressure to be different than you already are.
You need space to remember yourself.
Speaking from the Heart
Open to Keynotes, Workshops, and Guest Talks
I speak from lived experience… recovery, healing, presence, and the slow return to self that follows survival.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief: we are our own experts. And with the right conditions… safety, presence, and truth… we are capable of healing ourselves.
My talks are grounded, honest, and deeply human. They weave together recovery, nervous system awareness, and the practices that help us reconnect with our inner knowing and resilience.
This is about remembering what's already here, and creating space for people to trust themselves again.
Whether the setting is a recovery-centered gathering, wellness space, educational series, or professional environment, these talks meet people where they are… and gently invite them inward.
Healing is possible, through presence, self-trust, and compassion.
I am currently developing my speaking offerings and welcome the chance to connect with organizations and events that feel aligned. If you're interested in having me speak, I'd love to hear from you.
Popular Speaking Topics Include:
Redefining recovery and healing beyond sobriety
Moving out of survival mode through presence and nervous system awareness
Rebuilding self-trust after burnout, addiction, or life transition
Letting go of perfectionism, people pleasing, and over-functioning
Embodied self-leadership and living with intention
Training & Foundations
My work is grounded in both lived experience and formal training.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and have a background as a former Substance Abuse Counselor, where I worked closely with individuals navigating addiction, recovery, and emotional healing.
I am a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), where I studied a holistic, mind body spirit approach to well being. That training deepened my understanding that healing extends far beyond food or behavior… it includes emotional health, nervous system regulation, purpose, rest, creativity, and self connection.
I have also trained in mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and energy based practices, all of which inform the way I create spaces that support presence, self trust, and steady healing.
I am a certified trauma trained Somatic Practitioner and a 200 hour registered yoga teacher, training that expanded my work with the body, the nervous system, embodied awareness, movement, and breath.
More than any credential, my work is shaped by integration… the lived application of what I've learned through recovery, ongoing practice, and continued education. I remain deeply committed to learning, growth, and offering spaces rooted in integrity, care, and embodied truth.