It all started when my mom was battling terminal cancer.
My name is Elle and I have a story to share with you.
I have always been a free spirit. Someone who questioned the status quo and felt called to create a life outside the lines of “normal.”
In my 20s and early 30s, I traveled a lot, lived around the world, and built a life that looked adventurous, expansive, and free. And in many ways, it was.
But living an unconventional life also meant moving through constant transitions: new countries, new identities, new relationships, new beginnings, and many seasons of uncertainty.
I didn’t always know how to navigate those transitions. Sometimes I stumbled, resisted, doubted myself, and had to find my footing again.
Fast forward and I’m thirty-four years old. I’m currently finishing up my fifth year in South Africa. I thought I had my life together. I thought I had everything figured out. And then I received a phone call that turned my entire life upside down. My mom had been diagnosed with Glioblastoma-a rare and aggressive brain cancer. So, I packed up my life into five suitcases, and moved back home to Colorado.
Little did I know, the most impactful transition of my life had begun.
Over the next fourteen months, while the woman who gave me life was coming to the end of hers, I was faced with the hardest conversations and the most unfathomable decisions.
It was during that dark and painful chapter of my life that grief cracked something open in me. In the rawness of it all, breathwork found me. It gave me a place to truly grieve not only what was happening in that moment, but the emotions, stories, limiting beliefs and pain I had been carrying for years.
For the first time, I learned how to move through transition with more self-compassion, grace, love, and inner power. Breathwork didn’t take the grief away, but it gave me a way to meet it, accept it and move through it.
It was the through line that helped me manage these transitions with more power, certainty, clarity and courage.
I believe breathwork has the power to heal individuals and transform the collective. Because when we remember how to breathe fully, we remember how to live fully.
And I’m here to help guide you through these transitions, big and small, to create a more fierce, grounded, aligned and courageous life.
And so, the Courageous Life was born.