I Understood Myself, But I Just Couldn’t Change

As I entered adulthood, I spent thousands of dollars and countless hours in therapy. I could name every diagnosis I carried. I understood my childhood trauma inside and out.

But awareness gave me understanding—not freedom.

My days swung between anxiety-fueled overdoing and shame-filled collapse. I’d crash in bed, binge TV, secretly smoke cigarettes, eat junk food, and do everything I could not to feel.

I tried everything I could think of: therapy, alternative healing, meditation, diets, supplements, self-help books, 12-step programs, Eastern and Western practices. With a lot of Virgo in my chart, I went all in every single time, following each program to the letter until the rigidity became impossible to sustain. Then I’d end up right back where I started—judging myself as a complete failure.

There was never anything wrong with me.

The problem wasn’t a lack of discipline or willpower. The problem was that I was trying to change my life by following everyone else’s answers instead of learning how to listen to my own.

My childhood self wasn’t broken. She was brilliant. She survived.

Everything Changed When I Stopped “Shoulding” Myself

I didn’t need another program. I needed a way to uncover the unconscious beliefs that had quietly been running my adult life.

That’s what coaching gave me—not because someone told me what to do, but because I finally learned how to listen to myself differently.

It wasn’t always comfortable, and it required courage. But for the first time, the changes I made actually lasted. I no longer believed I wasn’t good enough.

I understood that awareness is only the beginning.

Real change comes from making the unconscious conscious.

That’s Why I Created Astrology In Real Life

I fell in love with astrology because it helped me understand myself. But I also became frustrated with it. I’d leave readings feeling inspired, validated, and full of insight. A week later, I’d still be living the same life.

I knew my birth chart. I knew my patterns. I just didn’t know how to change them.

So I began combining astrology with the coaching tools that had transformed my own life. Over time, that became the 3-Step Astrology in Real Life Method.

Today, everything I teach—whether in Moon Sisters Circle, private astrology readings, or my writing—is grounded in three simple ideas:

• Awareness
• Compassion
• Small, practical steps that create lasting change

The 3-Step Astrology In Real Life Method

Over the years, I realized that insight alone wasn’t enough.
Real change required a way to move from awareness into action.

That’s why I created the 3-Step Astrology in Real Life Method.

Reveal

Use your astrology, the moon, and coaching to uncover the unconscious beliefs, patterns, and habits quietly shaping your life.

Reclaim

Reconnect with the authentic part of yourself, the truth that has always been there beneath the survival strategies.

Rewire

Create lasting change through tiny, practical actions that build self-trust one step at a time.

It’s the framework that guides everything I do—from Moon Sisters Circle to astrology readings to my writing.

What I Believe

• Astrology should expand us, not box us in.
• Awareness is only the beginning.
• Our unconscious patterns make perfect sense once we understand where they came from.
• Shame keeps us stuck. Curiosity sets us free.
• We build self-trust by keeping small promises to ourselves.

Meaningful change doesn’t happen all at once.
It happens one tiny step at a time.

A Few Things about Me

• Creator of the Astrology In Real Life Method
• Founder of Moon Sisters Circle
• Writer of the weekly Moon Mondays column in The Aspen Times
• Certified alchemical astrologer through the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School
• Certified life coach through the Levin Life Coaching Academy
• Lifelong student of health, nutrition, exercise, and natural medicine
• Still learning, still growing, and still walking this path right alongside you.