MY JOURNEY TO FITNESS

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My journey didn't begin because I wanted to become a coach. It began because I was unhappy, uncertain, and trying to figure out who I was.

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At 23, I was working in my family's grocery store, going to school, waitressing at night and living the life I thought I was supposed to live. From the outside, there was nothing obviously wrong. But inside, I felt trapped, unfulfilled, and disconnected from myself.

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Eventually, my body started speaking louder.

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I struggled with extreme bloating, digestive issues, gas, low energy, hives, stress, and anxiety. Looking back, I now see that my body was communicating something I didn't yet know how to understand.

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That experience forced me to start asking questions I had avoided:

Who am I? What do I really want? Am I living my life—or the life other people expect me to live?

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I didn't know how to answer those questions, so I started with the one thing I felt I could change: my body. I thought that if I could look better and feel better, maybe I would gain the confidence to try new things and begin discovering who I really was.

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I hired a trainer, committed myself to training, and eventually competed in bodybuilding. My body changed dramatically—but something much more important was happening beneath the surface.

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I was changing.

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Fitness taught me discipline, confidence, curiosity, resilience, and personal responsibility. But my journey wasn't a straight line. I later struggled for years with binge eating and discovered that changing the outside of my body didn't necessarily mean I understood what was happening inside of me.

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That became one of the greatest lessons of my life: 

 

Transformation without self-understanding doesn't last.

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I see it across every generation—regardless of age, gender, success, fame, fortune, or circumstances. Beneath it all is something deeply human: the need to feel worthy, to feel enough, and to truly love and accept ourselves.

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But self-love doesn’t mean we stop evolving. It gives us the foundation to continue becoming.

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Keep going.
Keep growing.
Keep glowing.

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And as we learn to shine more brightly within ourselves, perhaps we can bring a little more light to the darkness and sadness around us.

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Over the next 25+ years, my curiosity took me far beyond traditional fitness. I studied breath, posture, fascia, movement, bodywork, nutrition, supplements, behavior, personal development, and many different approaches to understanding the human body and ourselves.

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And through all of it, one truth kept becoming clearer: The better I understood my body, the better I understood myself. And the better I understood myself, the better I could care for myself.

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Today, I call that Self-Literacy™.

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Self-Literacy is learning to recognize your patterns, listen to your body, understand yourself more deeply, and use that awareness to make wiser choices about your health and your life.

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I started Journey to Fitness in 2003 after experiencing my own life-changing transformation. At the time, I simply wanted to help other people experience what fitness had given me.

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Little did I know how meaningful the name Journey to Fitness would eventually become.

What began as a journey to transform my body became a journey to understand myself.

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More than two decades later, my business has come full circle. Journey to Fitness is no longer simply about exercise or changing the way your body looks.

 

It represents the lifelong journey of becoming more aware, more connected, and more capable of caring for the person you are becoming.

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My mission today is bigger than helping people become fit.

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I want to teach people how to understand themselves so well that they become their own greatest guide.

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Because ultimately, your greatest journey isn't toward a different body.

 

It's the journey back to yourself.