How It Began

My Story

Follow Your Desire, LLC Coaching was born out of a realization that I had while on a soul-searching journey in the beach towns of Southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Although I was in absolute paradise, the glamour eventually wore off and I found myself wanting something different, but I didn’t have a good reason to leave. Why would anyone want to leave paradise? But I felt called to move on. I spent a week talking myself out of leaving. I thought that if I couldn’t enjoy myself here, on a sunny Oaxacan beach then where could I?

A friend reminded me that “home is where we are,” so I stayed and ignored the gut feeling I had about wanting to leave. It wasn’t until many tiny synchronicities worked together to nearly kick me out of the town without any plans that I finally listened! Once I did, something in me clicked, and my journey continued on as it needed to reminding me that intuition is real, desire is powerful and we should listen when it speaks.

This experience made me question how often I had talked myself out of following my truest desires out of fear that it couldn’t actually be that good? Life couldn’t actually allow me to get what I want. Could it? 

I remembered every time I had been in a relationship where I had similar thoughts for months before I took action. Whether, I wanted to leave a relationship, change a dynamic, or introduce something new, this moment was a reminder of all the times I had talked myself out of the wise messages that my mind, body and spirit were sending me.

Desire can be scary in its power. Expressing and following through with it is harder still. In the end, we end up stuck in a way of being that feels limited because either we didn’t trust it or couldn’t face the fear of following through.

And could it be that our greatest fear is actually getting what we want?

As it turns out, we keep ourselves stuck in old patterns because of fears that helped us survive in the past. But ironically, these same patterns that helped us survive as babies in our families are sabotaging our current day relationships. We have to retrain our minds and hearts to trust safe people and open up again to new relationships.