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Hi, I'm Andrea — and I know what it feels like when you welcome a new little one into your home and your life turns upside down.
I became a mom and lost my job in the same season of life.
I'd been a teacher — it was my identity, my purpose, my answer to "what do you do?" Then budget cuts took it away. Just like that, I was no longer a teacher. And at the same time, I was navigating the enormous, disorienting shift of becoming a mother for the first time.
Almost overnight, I went from having a career, a classroom, a sense of direction, and a community of people to serve — to being home. Quietly. With a baby. And no roadmap for any of it.
My world got very small.
And to be honest? I was a bit lost. I had no idea who I was without my job title. I was pouring everything I had into my baby and my home, but inside I was quietly asking: is this enough? Am I enough? Who am I now?
The identity crisis was real — and it was layered. No longer a teacher. A new mom. A stay-at-home mom by circumstance, not entirely by choice. No career, no direction, and no one outside my four walls to serve or to see me.
That season taught me more about what new moms actually go through than any coaching certification ever could.
What pulled me through wasn't a perfectly optimized morning routine or a productivity framework. It was the slow, messy work of reconnecting to myself — clarifying my values, finding new purpose, and learning to build a life that felt like mine again, even in this completely new shape.
That's what led me to life coaching. First as a person who needed it, then as a practitioner who wanted to offer it to others.
Because here's what I know now: the transformation of becoming a mother — the identity shake-up, the grief for your old life, the love that's bigger than you expected, the exhaustion, the smallness, the questioning — that's not a problem to fix. It's a passage to navigate. And you deserve someone in your corner while you do.
I work with new moms because I am one. Because I've lived the version of this where everything changes at once and the ground disappears beneath your feet. Because I know what it's like to love your child fiercely and still feel like you've lost yourself. Because no one handed me a guide, and I want to be the guide I didn't have.
Whether you're in the foggy newborn days, navigating your first year, wrestling with the decision to return to work (or not), or just trying to figure out who you are in this new life — I'm here for all of it.
A little more about me:
• Certified Life Coach (CLC) and Certified Health & Wellness Coach (CHWC) through the Life Purpose Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Trained in the Life Purpose Institute Coaching Process©, used with over one million people worldwide since 1984
• Former educator with firsthand experience of career loss, identity crisis, and rebuilding from the inside out
• Wife and mom — living the same beautiful, hard, identity-stretching season I coach others through
My approach is warm, honest, and grounded in real life. I don't do toxic positivity or one-size-fits-all advice. I meet you where you actually are, and I help you build from there.
A note if you're also a teacher:
If you're a teacher on maternity leave wondering whether to go back, a mom who left the classroom and is grieving the loss of that identity, or someone carrying the impossible weight of caring for everyone at work and everyone at home — I understand your specific experience in a way that goes beyond empathy. I've been there. And there's a path through.
You don't have to figure this out alone.
Let's start with a conversation. A free, no-pressure Discovery Call where we talk about where you are, what you're navigating, and what it might look like to have real support through it.
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