ABOUT KARRI
Hello, I'm Karri! [she/her]
I am a professional life, business and relationship coach, autoimmune warrior, personal growth junkie, spiritual seeker, multiple entrepreneur, living with multiple chronic illnesses, serving globally while embracing my "mid-life" years.
MY STORY
I entered the field of coaching as someone whose life had been, and continues to be, deeply enriched by it. I arrived as a client in 2011 living in Asheville, North Carolina, while working as a successful theatre business owner, professional photographer, part-time actress and educator. I was going through a painful divorce, overworked and unhappy with my professional life, feeling a sense of not enough-ness in my relationships, dealing with uncertainty and was deeply lost in this major transformational period in my life.
I was also yearning for a spiritual presence in my life. A deeper connection to myself and my purpose. In my curiosity, I explored teachings with various spiritual programs, while diving into personal therapy. I was also exploring what was next for me, so I hired my first life coach who gave me permission to dream and to get out of my own way! I no longer felt alone and by taking action, I was finding a version of my true authenticity I hadn't explored before.
I then shifted into moving out to Los Angeles to work in the film & television industry. Thriving out in Hollywood while 'finding' my innate value was really significant. I often reflect in this period of my life as where I began to really find my 'core self.' Surrounding myself with the best in the business, I embraced every grateful moment working as a voice over actor in and around the Hollywood scene. Overwhelmed with these opportunities garnered a passion inside of me that thirsted for more. Throughout this time, financial fears and failing intimate relationships brought me to my knees. Seeking support from twelve step rooms, I learned slowly how to navigate my way spiritually to my center, healing from codependency and compulsions of seeking value and love in relationships, while also deeply stepping into serving my loving community.
Coincidentally, I had been longing to be with my family back in my hometown of Michigan. At that time, my beloved grandma had been declining in her health, so I made the decision to move back home, after being away for nearly 14 years, to surround myself with family while snuggling up to be with her in her final transition.
Entering this new phase in my life, I found myself tapping into my roots as a teacher while also expanding my photography business before transitioning into a version of my current offerings in my professional coaching. My beloved [now] husband entered my life with such a profound grace and a force of joy that I had never experience before in a committed intimate relationship. This was also when I began working with my second life coach, Sarah Joy. She lovingly asked me questions no one had asked me before. She gave me fierce permission to dive deeper into excavating my life and taught me the art of slowing down. Transformation happened immediately and I was fiercely committed to the outcome of decreasing stress, attuning to my intuition, learning self-love, finding my own capabilities and embracing a deeper sense of playfulness.
In June of 2023, I graduated from the CFJ Coaching Success School in Los Angeles, California with the principles and practices of Spiritual Psychology. In my commitment to healing my central nervous system, I have been working 1:1 with a Somatic Healing Therapist in the Royal Oak area the past two years that has impacted and changed my life profoundly!
It has taken many roads to lead to the private practice I founded in 2017 and my commitment is to continue to grow it. Commitment to service work, a deep spiritual life, and the ongoing experience of being a person who is living with a chronic illness informed my particular commitment to supporting the perfectionist, the dreamer, the naysayer, the reinventor, and the forgotten parts of ourselves in the spirit of saying YES to themselves.
Over the past 23+ years, I have been a student, practitioner and teacher of many approaches to wellbeing, self-care, and the care of others. Thank you for taking the time to learn a bit about me. I hope it gives you an initial sense of how or if I may be of support to you.
My Chronic Illness Background
Like many people, 2020 gave me the opportunity to sit with what I wanted most! The pandemic deeply affected those I cared about the most, including my coaching community.
Around this same time, my health was deeply impacting me in a significant way. I was deeply fatigued, muscle aches and pains in my joints, headaches, intensive hormonal disruptions, increasing weight gain, cognitive complications, chronic abdominal issues, and pelvic pain.
Seeking answers through many medical doctors, professionals and functional practitioners, I was finally diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses identified as Lupus, Hashimoto's and most recently CIRS, which is also called BioToxin Illness. A multi-symptom, multi-system illness resulting in major inflammation all throughout my body.
In addition to my commitment with my life coach, Sarah, in 2021, I sought support in our coaching community partnering with a health and life coach, Sascha Alexander, who also lived with chronic illness. She gave me language and radical loving support as
I learned how to embrace this newer version of my life. Sascha's compassion and relating to what I was going through, allowed me to take meticulous care of my sick failing body. Inner shadow work, trama modalities and therapies, and regulating my central nervous system allowed me to have a thorough understanding of the landscape of chronic health complaints and teach from my own experience of illness recovery.