My Story
For most of my life, the tangled thorn in my soul was simple:
I couldn’t bear to be seen.
Was it my nature? Unresolved childhood trauma? Or both?
I was born into a world that felt too loud, too bright, too much. Noise, light, even ordinary experiences overwhelmed my system. I wanted to jump out of my skin and disappear. The only place that felt safe was the dance studio — a sanctuary where movement gave me expression and relief.
But offstage, I was frozen. Invisible.
And home wasn’t safety — it was confusion and terror. I was disowned by my father at 13, and I bounced between high schools, always starting over, always unanchored. It shaped a kind of homelessness inside me — a feeling of never fully belonging anywhere, not even in my own body.
After early dance successes, including winning Star Search and starring in movies, my high school peers turned toward me with curiosity. And I reacted like a feral cat — defensive, panicked, unable to tolerate the spotlight. I sabotaged every opportunity that followed. I couldn’t give interviews, share my story, or expand on my success.
Instead, I shut down. Drugs, food, and depression became my new choreography.
A decade later, I crawled into treatment — terrified of being seen, terrified of saying my own name without crying from shame. I had no capacity to function, participate, or grow.
In my mid-twenties, I worked every 12-step group imaginable, even creating my own, and tried every therapeutic modality, including returning to university to become a therapist. Yet nothing seemed to help me move past the parts of myself that were frozen, ashamed, or stuck.
It was through an unexpected experience during Passover that I discovered an inventive way to move from enslavement to freedom — using innocuous objects and everyday experiences around the house. That insight became the seed of The Untangle Method™, a three-step mind-body framework that helps people untangle emotional and behavioral patterns and reclaim their lives.
Today, I speak, write, and teach from a place of continued healing and embodied resilience. As a young woman, I trained as a professional gymnast, dancer, actress, and therapist — but it was my journey through trauma, addiction, and recovery that shaped me into the practitioner I am now. I became an expert in crisis intervention, addiction recovery, and habit formation.
These diverse disciplines gave me a unique lens on human behavior — all of which inform The Untangle Method™ today. Drawing from biology, psychology, philosophy, the arts, and the humanities, I help people reclaim their lives, heal from the past, and flourish in ways they never believed were possible.
