WelcomeI’m Terri.
I’ve been walking this path for many years now — long enough to know that meaningful change doesn’t come from fixing ourselves, striving harder, or becoming someone new. It comes from remembering.
From learning how to listen inward, tend what matters, and live in relationship with our inner life. I practice inspired living not as a concept, but as a daily devotion — drawing from mindfulness, rest, creative inquiry, and a steady personal practice that continues to shape how I live and serve.
At the heart of my work is a simple truth:You are the creator of your own experience.
You already carry wisdom, resilience, and possibility within you. Sometimes what’s needed is not more effort, but a compassionate guide, a safe container, and practices that help you return to what is already strong and true. My work is not about striving or self-improvement — it is about coming home to yourself.
The Path that Led Me Here
The performing art yearsFor decades, I lived in the world of performance — onstage, backstage, and in the teaching studio. I loved the creativity, the community, the aliveness of it all.
But I also came to know its shadows: perfectionism, comparison, and constant striving. I watched artists doubt their own brilliance,
disconnect from their bodies, and forget the very source of what made their work come alive.
I saw how often they lost themselves. And I saw how often I did too.
The awakeningOver time, my path began to shift.
I was drawn into the study and practice of mindfulness, meditation, recovery support, character strengths, yoga nidra, and rest as medicine. These were not simply new skills or trainings — they were whole-life transformations.
Through my own recovery and deep personal practice, I learned a different way of living:
trading pressure for presence,
discipline for gentleness,
striving for spaciousness,
willpower for self-trust,
and exhaustion for rest.
What began as learning became remembering.
What began as practice became a way of life.
The integrationEverything changed when I realized this:
people don’t need more techniques, more discipline, or more self-improvement.
They need permission.
Permission to rest.
Permission to feel.
Permission to live from what is already strong within them.
They need compassionate truth-telling,
simple practices that regulate and restore,
connection to their inner resilience and wisdom,
and a gentle path back home to themselves.
This understanding now shapes everything I offer —
a way of working that honors the whole human,
and invites healing, creativity, and inspired living
to grow from the inside out.
My Approach
My approach is gentle, grounded, and deeply honest. I don’t believe in fixing people or pushing them toward an ideal version of themselves. I help people reconnect with what is already strong, wise, and alive within them — valuing spaciousness over striving, truth over performance, and rest as essential medicine.
Through mindfulness, yoga nidra, strengths-based coaching, and contemplative practice, I offer simple, supportive ways to build clarity, resilience, and trust in your inner life. This work isn’t about adding more or becoming someone new — it’s about learning to see what’s already here and living from that place with greater ease and integrity.
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Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Recovery Support Specialist (RSS)
MBSP - Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice Practitioner
SEA - Social Emotional Arts Educator
DTR - Deep Rest Coaching
Yoga Nidra & Yin Yoga
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30+ years in performing arts (teaching and performing)
8+ years mindfulness and recovery coaching
Work with artists (ages 12-18 and adults)
Recovery communities (including women's groups)
Teacher trainings and educational programs
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Integrity, Connection, Hope, Humanility, (my 6 year old student corrected me when teaching him about humility he said, “no Ms. Terri it’s Humanility!. Yes Matthew you are so right!
Ways to Work Together
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Mindful Arts Lab
One on one coaching sessions, workshops, and masterclasses for individuals or groups seeking presence, flow and authentic expression.
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Rested Recovery
One-on-one coaching and small Rest Circles for those longing to slow down, restore, and reconnect.
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Resources
A growing collection of guided meditations, yoga nidras, and monthly practice circles. Resources are coming soon.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
-Anne Lamott
