About Ariana
I spent much of my teens and early adulthood trying to become the kind of person I thought a happy, successful, beautiful life required.
I learned to look outside of myself for the answers. I reached for approval, achievement, belonging, and versions of success that had very little to do with who I actually was.
For a long time, I did not understand that my own nature belonged in the equation.
That realization changed everything. It became the beginning of a much more honest relationship with myself and the foundation of the work I do now.
What Shaped Me
There were years when I felt deeply disconnected from myself. I struggled with disordered eating, anxiety, panic attacks, unhealthy relationships, financial pressure, and the exhaustion of trying to force myself into lives and identities that did not fit.
I hurt myself striving for ideas of beauty, success, and belonging that existed independently of me. I thought the answer was to become more disciplined, more impressive, more lovable, or more acceptable.
What I eventually came to understand was that I had been leaving myself out of the process.
Healing began when I stopped treating my nature as something to overcome and started listening to it as a source of direction. That shift taught me how much courage it takes to become honest about who we are, what we need, and the kind of life that can actually hold us.
The Coach-Student Journey
Coaching has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.
As a competitive figure skater and bodybuilder, I experienced firsthand what it means to be guided through ambition, discipline, plateaus, uncertainty, and change. My relationship with coaching was never purely transactional. My ice dancing coach eventually became my matron of honor, which says a great deal about how deeply these relationships have shaped my life.
I learned that growth has seasons, that progress is rarely linear, and that the right coach can help you see what is difficult to recognize from inside your own experience.
My academic background in philosophy and religious studies gave me a language for the deeper questions beneath that journey. My professional training in health coaching, life coaching, transformational coaching, meditation, breathwork, and psychedelic integration gave me practical ways to help people move through it.
That combination continues to shape the way I work. I understand the coach-client relationship as a shared journey through personal evolution, and I take seriously the trust involved in walking beside someone as they become more fully themselves.
My Life Now
I am thirty-four, a wife, a mother of teenagers, a Buddhist practitioner, and a woman still learning how to build a life of my own while loving and caring for the people around me.
Whether I am in the United States or abroad, I feel best when I am close to nature. I love moving my body, practicing yoga, hiking, surfing, reading, learning, cooking, eating good food, and taking care of my animals.
My life is still unfolding. I am still becoming, refining, and making room for what matters. That ongoing process keeps me honest in my work and deeply respectful of how personal every life really is.
What I Believe
I believe being human is an extraordinary privilege.
I believe our lives ask us to become more honest, more awake, and more fully ourselves. I believe our struggles, gifts, relationships, longings, and seasons of change all belong to that becoming.
I believe each person carries a perspective, offering, and way of moving through the world that only they can bring. Part of the work is learning how to recognize it, trust it, and build a life that gives it somewhere to live.
I also believe possibility is real. The lives we feel called toward may ask more of us than our current beliefs, habits, or circumstances know how to hold, but that does not make the calling any less meaningful.
What Is Possible in Your life?
My life has been shaped by the questions I kept asking, the practices I kept returning to, and the possibilities I was willing to believe in before I knew exactly how they would unfold.
Your life will ask something entirely different of you.
That is what makes the question so exciting: What might be possible in yours?