This is my passion because I’ve lived it.

• I’ve lived the life where I looked like I had it all together but I was falling apart.
  • As a undergraduate student at Notre Dame, I struggled to keep my grades up. I used alcohol and food to escape my insecurities and attempt to fit in with my peers I was comparing myself to.
  • My first job out of college was on a Presidential campaign that took me to the White House for over four years. I did my job well, but my coping mechanisms were quickly becoming addictions. I was having panic attacks every day towards the end of my time there.

• I’ve had to pivot in life and make the transition from a life I grew up with to a life I never imagined in Christ.
  • I went to treatment for my addictions at 31 in the middle of grad school at Notre Dame.
  • When my ambition wanted to take me to Austin, Texas, my heart and the Lord kept me where I was to grow in Him so I could help others do the same.
  • I was an East Coast girl raised in between the two worlds of Philadelphia suburbs and DC who need to find her own place - in the Midwest.

• I’ve pushed through the pain to healing with God’s help in so many areas and I’ve always trusted that each one would help someone else.
  • Building a life after addiction treatment
  • Overcoming addictions to food, alcohol and overexercise
  • Navigating the continued treatment of my mental health
  • Learning to no longer use food as an escape for life
  • Healing from the childhood trauma of parents divorce as a kid
  • Healing the Father Wound from my Dad leaving as a kid
  • Healing the Mother Wound from the difficult relationship my mother and I had because of the wound
  • Healing from the grief of losing Dad three years into recovery
  • Overcoming the challenges of going deeper in your faith
  • Overcoming all the fears and insecurities that came from toxic romantic relationships and meeting the man I would marry
  • Overcoming the fears that come with getting married as a child of divorce
  • Overcoming the fear of having kids by becoming a stepmom
  • Walking through the journey of infertility and IVF treatment and becoming a mom over 40

My Professional Background

Undergraduate degree: University of Notre Dame, 1999
Bush Campaign: 2000
The White House: 2001-2005
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Office: 2005-2008
Graduate Degree: University of Notre Dame, 2010
Life Coach Certification, Martha Beck Coaching: 2009
Behavior Modification Consultant, Curves International and the Cleveland Clinic: 2011

I have spent almost two decades mentoring and coaching women from their twenties through their forties.

That work has birthed a movement of the Holy Spirit that is called Guiding God’s Daughters.

Seeds were planted in my early life by both my father and mother.  My mom planted a seed of faith through her devotion, prayers, and perseverance in trials, which I believe paved the way for the depth of my relationship with God. My father planted the seed of mentoring.

His name was Ambassador Peter Terpeluk Jr., and he passed away on August 23, 2011. He was a good man who made people feel like they were the only one in the room and always saw their potential. The way he mentored and guided so many people inspired me to carry on that tradition in this ministry with women. This is how I continue his legacy.

Yet, my story is only one story. You have a story, and there is a woman in your world who needs it.

God needs all of us and our stories to bring His daughters back home.

So let’s do this.