Hi! i’m Carlie…

Because you are considering trusting me with your journey, let me share a little bit of mine

The Journey That Led Me Here

I didn't always know I'd be doing this work. But looking back, I can see that every piece of my journey was leading me here—to this integration of psychology and soul, to supporting people through awakening, to being an Awakening Doula.

I grew up in a religious/spiritual environment that gave me early questions about meaning, purpose, and what lies beyond what we can see. Those questions never left me. I studied theology first, then counselling psychology, always searching for answers to the deeper "why" of human suffering and transformation.

For years, I worked as a therapist helping people process trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and integrate their parts. I was good at it. I loved it. But there were always questions I couldn't answer with psychology alone:

Why are we carrying wounds that don't belong to this lifetime?
What is the soul trying to tell us through our pain?
How do we heal what's been passed down through generations?

Then I had my own awakening. It was painful with physical illness; it was heartbreaking with loss of identity; it was earth shattering with loss of felt sense of home and connection.

My worldview shattered. Everything I thought I knew about life, purpose, and identity came undone. I was in the messy middle myself—grieving, questioning, rebuilding. Traditional therapy helped, but it wasn't enough. I learned about natural living, true embodiment, reclaiming a relationship with myself in every conceivable way. Then came the spiritual rebuild. I needed something that could hold both the psychological/physical reality AND the spiritual truth of what I was experiencing.

That's when I found the Akashic Records.

They gave me the missing piece. They showed me how to access soul-level information, clear ancestral patterns, and validate the knowings that I had always somehow held inside of me. Now I truly had something to help people remember who they were before the conditioning took hold. And suddenly, everything I'd been studying—psychology, theology, the nervous system, the soul—clicked into place.

I realized I didn't have to choose between being a therapist or being a spiritual guide. I could be both. I could integrate both worlds. I could offer people the full spectrum of support they need to move through awakening.

That's how Awakening Doula was born.

Who I Am Beyond the Work

Traveling has always been my passion and living around the world has been a big part of my life and education. While I am Canadian born, I believe myself to be a citizen of the world. Currently, I live on an island with my husband, our two kids, and our dogs Winter, Summer, and Autumn. We moved here a few years ago, and it's been its own kind of awakening, learning to live more slowly, more connected to nature, more aligned with what actually matters, while we build a world we want to live in.

Being a mother has taught me about identity, death and rebirth in ways no training ever could. You lose yourself in motherhood, and then, if you're willing, you find yourself again, deeper and more real than before. That journey of becoming has informed everything I do in this work.

I spend a lot of time in nature. Walking, swimming, processing, and integrating. The ocean
and the trees ground me after holding space for the deep soul work of others. I believe transformation happens in the body, not just the mind—so I move, I breathe, I let the earth recalibrate me.

I'm also a podcast co-host with NLP goddess and my close friend Diana Lazar (Realigned and Unfiltered), where we dive into the science, psychology, and spirituality of awakening. It's where I get to explore the edges of this work and a place for people to join us for the conversation.

I'm still unfolding and becoming. I still have parts that protect, beliefs that need updating, patterns that surface. But that's the point—awakening isn't a destination. It's a continuous process of shedding and becoming. And I'm in it with you.