My story
I learned how these cases work in the hardest way possible — by living it.
For 20 years, I poured myself into my family. After earning my master’s degree, I set aside building a career so I could raise and homeschool our three children. Then my marriage ended, and not quietly.
What followed was three years of the most contested kind of divorce there is, the kind that goes all the way to a jury trial. My finances were deliberately dismantled. Support, including support for the children, went unpaid. I faced false allegations of parental alienation and learned how to combat them successfully. The hard reality became clear: I was expected to stand on my own immediately, without a recent résumé, without a roadmap, while a war was still going on inside me and around me.
I also came to understand how these cases actually work: the documentation that matters, the strategy, the moments when fear makes you want to fire back, and the discipline it takes not to. I became certified as a high conflict divorce coach through One Mom’s Battle, the organization founded by Tina Swithin, to help myself, but also because I never want someone else to walk through that maze as blindly as I had to.
This is my calling now: to be the person in your corner that I wish I would have had all along.