I have owned a home in Fernie for over 20 years. The lodge you'll be staying in is the place I’ve returned to again and again, through every season of my life.

The mountains outside the window are the same ones I’ve walked through during my own hardest chapters. I bring more than hospitality to this weekend. With a Masters of Leadership, a background in Healthcare, and deep expertise in Human Behaviour/ Change Management, Team Development, grief, and wellness, I have spent decades helping people navigate what comes next, first professionally, and then in ways I didn't expect, personally.

I know what it is to lose someone you can't imagine living without, to step away lovingly from a significant other struggling with addiction and navigate ongoing emotional healing.  I know the quiet disorientation of watching a chapter close and not yet being able to see the one that's opening. I know the particular loneliness of being someone who holds space for everyone else and not being held myself when I needed it the most.

That knowing is what shaped the Mountain Life Experience.

I at my core, am a connector. I love people, the real, unpolished, still-figuring-it-out versions of them. I am  comfortable in the messy, and I have spent my career creating safe spaces where people can slow down, strengthen their awareness of what they're feeling, and begin to find the words for them. That work, helping people name what's true and communicate it to the people around them, is where I feel alive.

I do not show up as the expert with the answers. I show up as a woman in the middle of her own becoming, steady enough to hold the container, honest enough to sit with you in the uncertainty, and experienced enough to help you find your way through. 

 

I have a gift, creating environments where something real can happen. Where the combination of mountain air and activity, good company, and the right questions cracks something open that's been waiting for space.

I am  passionate about self-leadership, not as a concept, but as a lived practice. About what it looks like to build consistent daily habits that hold, to lead yourself through change with clarity rather than survival mode, and to find your community in unexpected places.

This space exists for others in need of a mountain stay because  I needed it too and it has become the fabric of my life journey. Now I offer it to you.