09/24/2026
The Wonder Within didn’t start as a business.
It started as a healing journey. Mine.
Before there was a business, a building, a fire department contract or a stage, there was this:
• I battled an eating disorder for 20 years.
• I drank myself to sleep after my brother died because I didn’t know how to hold the grief.
• I buried myself in work because achieving was easier than being present.
• I was a mom I’m not proud of because I knew how to work, produce and keep moving—but I didn’t know how to slow down and just be.
• I spent years teaching people how to take care of themselves while learning how to take care of myself.
Those aren’t side notes to The Wonder Within.
They’re the reason it exists.
At 17, fitness and nutrition found me when I started taking my health into my own hands. Then came massage because I understood the power of human touch. Hospice taught me about life and death. Yoga found me when I needed it.
And somewhere along the way, what I was learning to help myself became something I could use to help someone else.
That healing journey started leaving breadcrumbs:
• 2004 — Joined the military as a medic
• 2007 — Became a firefighter
• 2012 — Built a little massage “she shed” at home.
• 2016 — Opened The Wonder Within: massage, yoga, TRX, wellness, education, retail and community.
• 2017 — Took the work into fire and police departments.
• 2020 — Speaking grew. The rooms got bigger. The message did too.
• 2022 — Sold our last brick-and-mortar to make room for what this was becoming—and more room for my family.
• Today — First responders. Military. Organizations. Stages I never could have planned for.
Almost 25 years later, I can see the thread through all of it.
So much of what I teach, I needed first.
Regulate instead of escape.
Fuel instead of punish.
Recover. Grieve. Be present.
Build a life that can take a hit.
The buildings changed.
The uniforms changed.
The rooms changed.
I changed.
But the work hasn’t.
Find your way home. Then turn around and help someone else find theirs.
Maybe that’s why the name still fits.
The Wonder Within.
