However, as soon as I graduated, I realized that office work was not for me and I became a full time aerobics instructor and a personal trainer teaching classes all over Boulder. It seemed like a better fit for my personality.

Fast forward several years to my early twenties. I hurt my knee snowboarding and had to have surgery followed by physical therapy (PT). I really enjoyed PT and was wondering if this indeed was something that I could be good at. After all, I was a personal trainer and loved the way that movement and exercise could transform someone’s life. But I wasn't ready to make such a big change.

Until one day in a yoga class, during savasana (the final relaxation pose at the end of the class), I heard a voice inside of my head very clearly state: “I want to heal people”. Childhood memories of trying to heal all my family members flashed before my eyes, and at that moment I knew I was going to go back to school to become a Physical Therapist.

I graduated from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2010 and continued my education with many courses in traditional and non-traditional body work techniques and Pilates.

In the last few years, I've been doing a lot of self-reflection and asking myself what drove me back to school and keeps driving me every single day.

What got me through the grueling 3 years of PT school and the anatomy lab with terrible ventilation?

What is the voice that wakes me up in the middle of the night and tells me the best approach to try with a patient?

What got me through the dry needling certification where I had to overcome my needle phobia and be needled in every single muscle of my body?

What drove me to quit my job at an outpatient physical therapy clinic and leave a steady paycheck so I could plunge myself into the unknown by starting my own physical therapy clinic?

The answer is...I love helping people live the lives they want. I love seeing my patient playing golf after 2 hip replacements. I love knowing that a 16 year old girl who suffered a terrible concussion and couldn’t sleep for a whole year was able to sleep through the night and finish out her year in school. I love knowing that my patient was able to ski after suffering for a year with terrible back and neck pain. I see these transformations daily and it feels wonderful to know that I was able to assist in body’s natural process of healing.

Our bodies are perfectly designed to be resilient. We have an amazing capacity to heal injuries. But sometimes this process gets stuck and needs a push in the right direction. That's why I love Physical Therapy. It's a non-invasive process that helps the natural healing process get back on track. As a result, you get your life back without pain medications, injections or surgery.

Unfortunately, the traditional medical model is focused on the wrong thing: insurance. It drove me crazy when I had to stop therapy on a patient because they maxed out their insurance benefits. I couldn't understand why my boss was concerned when I kept working with my patients longer than what the doctor ordered even though they needed more treatment. I felt frustrated when some guy without any medical education who worked for an insurance company in Cleveland was dictating what I should be doing with my patient. It felt wrong.

While working in a traditional PT setting I felt overworked and burnt out. The fire that drove me to this profession was simply on low. I saw too many patients (up to 20 a day), and I simply could not deliver the quality of care that I knew they deserved. The joy of helping someone transform their life was taken over by fatigue and needless paperwork. I was tired.

I realized that I had to start my own thing. I had to create a place where Physical Therapy was practiced for the right reasons under the right conditions. So I opened the doors of Healing in Motion Physical Therapy and started taking care of my patients the way that I wanted to.

Now the fire is back on full blast. There is no way of turning it off or putting it out. Now I am able to give you the care that you deserve. And the best thing is that every day when I wake up I am excited to go to work.