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, 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, men, 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, and actress — 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.
