Hi, I’m Nadine

I’m a parent coach dedicating my life to supporting parents through really tough parenting journeys. This is my contribution to creating a world that works for everyone. I believe that with compassionate, neuroscience-informed support any parent can learn to hold even the most challenging parenting environments with a presence that brings healing and peace.

My own parenting journey started off feeling really hard with a foster child who had many big, baffling behaviors. I piled up lots of regrets as I tried to parent a child I was woefully underprepared to parent. When they left our home I was left with a lot of pain and confusion so I started reading everything I could about developmental trauma. And then our four foster-to-adopt kids moved in and I struggled to implement even a sliver of what I read and forgot most of it as I drowned in overwhelm. Thankfully I was supported by a wonderful parent consultant but after my children were adopted I was no longer eligible for that program. I floundered. It was the pandemic. I was stuck in generational patterns of reward and punishment, judgements, shoulds, and insecure attachment styles. I was flipping my lid and had a big protective watchdog brain showing up daily.

Things are still hard in my family, maybe even just as hard, if I were still the person I was. I’m not. I’ve been privileged to receive incredible support in the form of instruction, coaching, spiritual direction, and encouragement. All that I offer to you is a culmination of my years of learning and growth and I offer it from a place of really getting what it’s like to parent kids with vulnerable nervous systems.