My Journey
I'm Angela — a registered nurse, mother, wife, and intimacy and relationships coach passionate about the transformational power of love in guiding people home to themselves and to genuine connection in their most important relationships.
I grew up learning to disappear myself to survive. In a chaotic home, I became the caretaker, the fixer, the one who made sure everyone else was okay. I carried those patterns into adulthood — over-functioning, over-giving, existing to prove my worth through what I could do for others. Even as I built a good life, I was disconnected from myself in fundamental ways.
By my mid-thirties, I had a better life than I had ever dreamed of — a meaningful nursing career, a loving marriage, two beautiful children. And I was still running on the same patterns. Motherhood deepened them. The weight of being needed by everyone — for everything — quietly crowded out any real sense of my own aliveness. Sexual disconnection became the doorway I finally walked through to explore what was keeping me from the intimacy and presence I was longing for, both within myself and in my relationship.
Through somatic practices, breathwork, energy work, and parts work, I began uncovering layers I hadn't known were there. What started as addressing sexual disconnection opened into recognizing deeper patterns — ways I had learned to abandon myself, to disconnect, to exist in service of others rather than from a place of genuine aliveness. I realized I was not uniquely broken. I was a mother in midlife who had been giving everything to everyone for years, and there was simply nothing left over for me.
The healing journey became about coming home to myself across all dimensions — body, mind, heart, spirit, sexuality, relationships. Learning I wasn't broken and never had been. Reclaiming my voice, my boundaries, my desires. Discovering that I'm allowed to exist for myself, not just for others. Learning to access aliveness, pleasure, and genuine connection from wholeness rather than depletion.
This transformation continues. My husband and I still have conversations where we uncover dynamics we didn't realize were there — patterns that felt normal but were actually keeping us from deeper connection. As I've brought consciousness to those patterns, I've experienced profound shifts. There's a restoration of aliveness in my body, deeper intimacy in my relationship, and a sense of being at home within myself that feels genuinely meaningful. I speak about this work from inside the experience, not from a place of having arrived — because none of us arrives. We just keep coming home.
Why This Work
For over 20 years, I've been a registered nurse, caring for people through some of life's most vulnerable moments. My background includes a Master of Science in Nursing in Midwifery and Women's Health. I've supported people through birth, death, illness, and the tender transitions in between — and I've met and cared for thousands of people in some of the most vulnerable and intimate moments of their lives. These experiences taught me that healing happens when people feel truly seen, safe, and held with compassion.
I'm trained in Internal Family Systems, which informs how I work with the different parts of ourselves that hold pain, protection, and wisdom. I'm a certified Sex, Love, and Relationships Coach through Layla Martin's VITA program, which draws from both modern science and ancient wisdom traditions.
What I bring to this work is not just training but my own lived experience of transformation — as a mother, a partner, a woman navigating midlife with all its particular weight and beauty. I know what it's like to feel numb and disconnected, to try everything and have nothing reach the root. And I know what it's like on the other side — to feel alive in your body, to experience pleasure and authentic connection, to come home to yourself. I know the path because I'm walking it.
I live in Vancouver, WA with my husband and our two children. We continue discovering new depths of connection and intimacy as we each do our own work, which is its own ongoing gift.
My intention as a coach is to create a safe, welcoming space for you to explore your desires and engage with the inner work needed to come home to yourself. This isn't about fixing what's broken — it's about uncovering the wisdom and wholeness already within you. Authenticity, love, respect, and curiosity guide everything I do. I'm here as a support and resource in service of your thriving across all dimensions of life — body, mind, heart, spirit, sexuality, and relationships.