Finding Alignment

For most of my childhood and into adulthood, I lived by one guiding principle: do what I was told God wanted me to do. I grew up in a strict religious family where faith shaped everything—how I lived, what I believed, even how I saw myself.

Then my dad was excommunicated from the religion. The man who had taught me everything I knew about God—the rules, the principles, the path to heaven—suddenly didn’t belong to the very faith he raised me in. It didn’t make sense. If even he couldn’t live up to what he taught, what did that say about the beliefs themselves?

That moment cracked everything open. For the first time, I stepped away from church, and only then did my real search begin. I needed to find out for myself what I believed, what felt true, and how I fit into this vast universe. Because at that point, nothing I had been taught felt like truth anymore.

That search eventually brought me to Bali at age 32. It was, in many ways, my own Eat, Pray, Love journey—a season of peeling back the layers, asking bigger questions, and letting myself be cracked open in new ways. I signed up for a yoga teacher training not because I wanted to teach, but because I knew I needed something different.

And yet, Bali wasn’t even the true beginning of my story—it was the beginning of me choosing to search for something bigger. Even with all the beliefs, ideas, and tools I’ve gathered since then, that time still holds a special place in my heart. Because it’s those first shifts—the ones where we say yes to a new way—that shape the rest of our lives and trajectory.

It was there I first learned what it meant to live by flow instead of force, and the magic that unfolds when we connect to that flow. Not striving. Not performing. Just opening to what’s already within us.

Since then, the path has kept unfolding—through energy work, Human Design, breathwork, and kinesiology. Each one gave me a new language for the same truth: that alignment isn’t about proving yourself, but about remembering who you already are.

And that’s the heart of it. Alignment isn’t something we achieve by checking boxes or getting it all “right.” It’s the moment we pause, listen, and return to ourselves. It’s a way of living that honors our energy, our rhythm, and our soul.

That’s what Bali gave me: the beginning of alignment. And that’s what I hope to share here—an invitation to find your own.