Choice Connections

About Me

 After spending over 20 years as an engineer, life events triggered me to do something different. Losing my beautiful teenage niece created a shift in me. I spent a lot of time reflecting and cocooning (is that a word?) and then had an elliptical moment (you know, those flashes of insight when you are sweating away at the gym). Everything I went as a child and young woman, was because I was going to need that reference when I worked with teenage girls. Thank you Universe for that moment of insight, but now what??? Research and more reflection, led me to coaching. In hindsight, since I have 3 daughters and have spent most of their lives as a girl scout facilitator, the universe was setting me up to head in this direction all along. I believe I would have ended up here, eventually, but in 2008 I received a REALLY hard push and I decided to LISTEN…….

I have a passion for girls. All of them. Young, old and in between. I also have a gift for recognizing patterns and noticed a synergy between us “somewhat” older women and teenagers. After all, menopause is just puberty in reverse, right? Don’t snicker, we are all born, we all die, we all hit puberty and then we all jump off a cliff. Just kidding. Around this time, puberty or a “little” later, we start feeling a push of some kind. A push to make a difference and come into our own. I think this push is a calling from our innermost self. A call for CONNECTION. Some of us listen, some of us don’t. I think as teens, we don’t yet have some of the tools to act on that push. What if we “somewhat” older chicks had learned some of this when we were young instead of waiting until the kids were almost grown. What kind of parents would we be then? How would our lives be different? And, if we started in the early teens, how much easier would the dreaded middle and high school years be? Not that I would want to relive that one, but going from a Class 5 rapids down to a Class 1 would have been nice! It makes going to college and DESIGNING your life the norm! Although I believe that everything happens for a reason, I also believe that these experiences are here to teach us something. If we don’t learn the lesson, here goes groundhog day!!! But then again, who says we have to keep repeating the same patterns to learn it? Let’s only make one trip down that yellow brick road and then try the red one. That whole munchkin land thing creeps me out, and I would totally love to bypass the “I’m Melting” part too. (Now you are going to be singing the “Lollipop Kids” the rest of the day.. Sorry!)

I could ramble on all day. My insight (remember the ellipticle moment?) led me to create Choice Life Strategies. My goal, my intention, my passion, is to help teens and women develop and connect with themselves so that they can truly create their lives, not just hang on for dear life. I want every woman and young girl to reach for the stars, and pick whichever one they choose.

      Graduate of Coach U & Teen Wisdom