For most of her twenties and thirties, she lived by a single conviction: that passion was the engine of a meaningful life. She wrote a book about it. She built a practice around it. She coached hundreds of people to find it.
And she wasn’t wrong. Passion matters. It is real and it is necessary. The woman who wrote Passionability: Igniting a Life full of Love, Happiness and Meaning — who threw herself into her work twelve, fourteen hours a day for a decade, who crossed continents chasing what lit her up — she knew something true.
“Passion was never just a concept to me. It was the answer to everything. I believed it with my whole heart.”
She didn’t arrive at this work through a textbook. She arrived through living — through beauty and rupture and reinvention and loss. Through three continents, two master’s degrees and one body that eventually said enough.
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She studied interior design in Beirut and then in Florence — a city that opened her up to the world. She traveled. She created. She lived fully inside her passions and called it enough.
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The unraveling
Living in Canada, she found herself somewhere she hadn’t expected: lost. An unfulfilling marriage. A career in real estate that left her hollow. The woman who had been powered by passion had quietly stopped recognizing herself.
And then — the series of ruptures that, in hindsight, were also invitations. She ended the marriage. She left the career. She walked into the unknown with nothing but the conviction that she was meant for something different, and the courage to find out what.
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She started rock climbing seriously at 42. At 45, she went back to university and earned a Master’s in Educational Psychology, specializing in Human Development.
She was doing what she had always done: proving to herself — and to anyone watching — that limits were negotiable.
She didn’t yet know that the limit coming for her couldn’t be out-climbed. Now, at 50, she is based in Abu Dhabi, doing the most rewarding work of her life — with women who remind her, every day, of who she used to be.
She did what she had always done: she researched everything. Read every book. Tried every protocol. Studied under Gabor Maté in his year-long Compassionate Inquiry program. Went deep into Joe Dispenza’s work & retreats. Trained under Dr. Mindy Pelz in women’s hormones and perimenopause. Became a certified health coach — twice over. She even mustered the courage for ayahuasca’s embrace.
“I had been coaching people back to their passion for a decade. And I was right that passion matters. But I had missed something crucial — the reason so many people can’t access their passion, can’t sustain it, can’t feel it even when their life looks exactly as it should.
It isn’t a mindset problem. It isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a nervous system problem. A trauma problem. A body that learned to brace instead of bloom.
The diagnosis gave me that. And I would not trade it — because it made me the practitioner I am today.”
These have been tested — not just studied. Some of them came from certifications. Some of them came from living.
The woman you are looking for already exists. She has always existed. What the work does is clear away what was laid over her — the performance, the armor, the quiet abandonment of her own needs — until she can finally breathe again.
The woman you are looking for already exists. She has always existed. What the work does is clear away what was laid over her — the performance, the armor, the quiet abandonment of her own needs — until she can finally breathe again.
I wrote a book called Passionability: Igniting a Life full of Love, Happiness and Meaning. It was about finding what lights you up and building a life around it. I still believe in that — but I know now that passion alone won’t carry you if your nervous system is shot.
It draws on psychology, lived experience, and deep self-inquiry to support readers in reconnecting with their inner compass.
The book is available on Amazon.
I created the Be You Cards. My sister helped me design it. A tool for self-reflection. Hundreds of people have used them. They’re still out there in the world, doing their thing.
Each card offers a prompt designed to slow things down and invite insight — whether used alone, in journaling, or within a therapeutic or coaching space. The cards are not meant to provide answers, but to help surface what is already present beneath the noise.
That recognition is enough to begin. You don’t need to be ready. You don’t need to have the words. You just need to show up honestly — and she’ll take it from there.
A free, unhurried call. No commitment required.