Change Starts With a Conversation
Rise and Shine Life Coaching is a life, health, and advocacy coaching service dedicated to supporting adults with disabilities, parents of children with special needs, and families navigating new diagnoses.
Life Coaching
Inclusive support for adults with disabilities and families seeking encouragement, clarity, and meaningful next steps.
Health Coaching
Wellness guidance that helps clients build healthier, more balanced lives with compassion and practical support.
Advocacy Support
Grounded guidance for navigating diagnoses, systems, and everyday challenges with confidence and care.
Safe Listening Space
A place to breathe, speak honestly, and feel seen, heard, and understood without judgment.
Our Story
Support that Feels Safe
Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is keep going, even when life feels heavy. My journey began when my son was born with Apert syndrome, a rare craniofacial condition that changed my life in ways I never could have imagined.
From Struggle to Strength
Along the way, I experienced grief, isolation, fear, and moments of deep exhaustion. I also learned what it means to love fiercely, advocate boldly, and keep showing up even on the hardest days. There were so many times when I wished I had someone who would simply listen. Because the truth is, letting it out helps heal.
The Power of Being Seen and Heard
Rise and Shine Life Coaching believes that healing does not always come from having all the answers. Sometimes healing begins when someone feels seen, heard, and understood. Rise and Shine believes in the power of encouragement, connection, and compassionate listening.
My Services
Coaching for Real Life
I offer a range of services, including one-on-one coaching, group coaching, and workshops. These services are designed to help clients overcome obstacles, improve their mindset, and achieve their goals.
One-on-One Coaching
Personalized support for adults with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities and syndromes.
Group Coaching
Connection-centered sessions that create space for shared experiences, mutual support, and meaningful growth.
Workshops
Guided learning focused on wellness, advocacy, resilience, and building confidence in everyday life.
Family Support
Compassionate coaching rooted in lived experience for families navigating new diagnoses and ongoing care.
My Philosophy
Believing in yourself does not mean you never struggle. It means trusting that even through the struggle, you are still becoming stronger. You do not have to carry everything alone. You deserve support that feels safe, uplifting, and free of judgment. Here, your voice matters. Your story matters. Your healing matters. And little by little, day by day, you can rise and shine again.
Take the First Step
You do not have to do this alone.
If you are a parent of a child with disabilities, an adult with disabilities, or a family navigating a new diagnosis, compassionate support is here when you are ready.
Important Disclaimer
Rise & Shine Coaching and Adaptive Virtual Training services are not therapy, counseling, psychological services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, or medical treatment. Coaching is designed to provide encouragement, accountability, motivation, wellness support, advocacy and practical strategies for daily living and personal growth.
Therapy often explores the past, mental health conditions, trauma, diagnosis, and emotional healing. Coaching is future-focused and action-oriented, helping clients work toward goals, routines, confidence, wellness habits, social growth, and greater independence.
Rise & Shine does not diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any medical, psychological, or developmental condition. Clients are encouraged to consult with their licensed healthcare providers before beginning any fitness or wellness program.
Adaptive virtual training sessions are educational and motivational in nature and should be performed at each participant’s own pace and comfort level. Parents, guardians, and caregivers are encouraged to supervise participants when appropriate.
Many individuals benefit from working with both licensed professionals and a coach as part of a well-rounded support system.