At twenty-seven I was a Chief Technology Officer. Multimillion dollar projects, a team of thirty employees, a long list of subcontractors, IT security, keeping an entire company and their software running. I was damn good at it and had the most loyal team in the world. On paper it was everything I thought I wanted.

But it was slowly destroying my soul. 

I spent years thrashing around in that position knowing this wasn’t what I was supposed to be doing. Eventually, I hit the wall. I couldn’t go on. I was starting to feel like an empty shill, losing myself every single day I showed up.

So I walked away. Not just from the great salary and the career. But from all of it. All of the things I thought I wanted out of life. The fancy house, the nice car, the things.

Which left me with a new mission: Figure out to find and fix myself. 

By the time I left my corporate career I had hit complete adrenal burnout. Soul level fatigue. Coupled with lifelong patterns of anxiety, depression, urinary urgency, primary and secondary amenorrhea. I was overweight, which led to a weight loss journey that came with a severe eating disorder. A lifetime of it, all coming to a head. 

I felt confused and lost. But some spark in me knew we were not meant to feel this bad. We were not put here to feel like this.

As soon as I quit my job I started studying functional nutrition and herbalism at the same time. The moment I walked into my first herb class I felt like I had come home. Ayurveda stopped me in my tracks. It felt less like learning something new and more like remembering something I had forgotten. I spent the next three years head down, studying, learning, practicing, experimenting, figuring out where my place in this world was.

Something interesting happened along the way. I stumbled into a whole new world, a different way of looking at the body, at health, at what it actually means to feel good. I thought everyone in the natural healing space was on the same page.

Then I realized there was a gap.

The shortcomings of conventional medicine are obvious. What I wasn’t prepared for were the shortcomings of the natural healing space itself. The craft I was falling in love with was buried in noise and confusion. Different clothing, same trap. Diluted, reductionist, and impossible to navigate.

After seeing that gap I knew the path wasn’t just working one on one with clients. It was helping natural healing come back to itself as the dynamic, effective medicine it is when practiced with real depth.

My role is to bring clarity to the confusion. Potency where the medicine has gone soft. Clinical rigor to the shallow aestheticism that rules the market. To take people a layer deeper. Beyond trends and fads. Beyond cutting edge and new. Beyond soft and ineffective.

Today I run the Virtual Natural Healing Clinic and the Path to Practitioner Potency mentorship community. One for people who are done cycling through incomplete answers. One for practitioners who are ready to practice with more depth and confidence.

I host Lila’s Herbal Revolution, where I bring the same clinical directness to conversations about herbalism, nutrition, and natural healing.

I see local clients in my small rural community in Southern Oregon, making care like this accessible to the people who need it most.

This is the work.