I think often about how bodies work — and about how we, as humans, fit within the larger systems around us. I think about how people live together, what helps life move smoothly, and what happens when it doesn’t. Most of all, I think about how we make living better.

I’ve worked as a doctor of physical therapy for more than 13 years, but my fascination with healing began much earlier. In kindergarten, I wanted to be a veterinarian for tigers. Later, while studying anatomy in high school and playing competitive ice hockey, I began to experience the human body differently. As I pushed my skate edge into the ice, I could visualize muscles contracting and generating force through the skeleton. As cold air filled my lungs during exertion, I imagined oxygen moving through the body and back into working muscle. Those moments filled me with awe. They shaped the way I understood movement, health, and what it means to be alive.

Since then, I’ve tried to build a life guided by curiosity, growth, and meaningful experience.

I’ve lived throughout the country, traveled internationally, and completed more than 1,000 miles of long-distance hiking. I’ve worked across diverse healthcare settings, from strength and conditioning gyms to inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, caring for people with a wide range of needs and backgrounds. I became a mother. I stepped into unfamiliar environments professionally and personally. I joined the Port Townsend Planning Commission. Each experience has expanded the way I think about people, resilience, systems, and community.

This website is another extension of that process.

Over time, I’ve become increasingly convinced that health is not an individual pursuit. It doesn’t begin and end with a single body part — or even a single person. Health is deeply interconnected with our relationships, our work, our environments, our communities, and the systems we move through every day. While this idea is not new, it continues to reshape the way I practice and the questions I ask about healthcare.

I believe there are better ways to care for people — ways that are more connected, meaningful, sustainable, and human. Better for patients, providers, communities, and the ecosystems we inhabit. I know many people are working toward that future in different ways. This space is my attempt to contribute: to explore, experiment, and put language to what I’ve learned through practice and experience.

I want healthcare to feel tangible and relevant to real life. I want health to support what matters most to people — their families, their work, their creativity, their neighborhoods, their sense of purpose. Whether that means helping someone return to gardening, farming, art-making, athletics, parenting, or community leadership, I want care to connect directly to the life they are trying to build.

To me, health is not an arrival point. It is an ongoing practice — one that must be sustainable not only for ourselves, but for the communities and living systems we are part of. The work is never finished. We continue cultivating it together.