About Michelle

From My Own Enemy to My Own Goddess

My early life was shaped by loss, separation, and responsibility far beyond my years.
Those experiences quietly informed who I became, the choices I made, and the way I learned to move through the world.

For many years, I lived disconnected from myself — shrinking, over-accommodating, and saying yes when I meant no. I moved through life without vision or direction, numb to my own needs and inner voice. I was, in many ways, my own worst enemy.

Motherhood became the turning point.

After the birth of my first child, my inner world began to unravel. What followed were years of anxiety, panic, medication, therapy, and searching for relief. I knew, somewhere deep within me, that there had to be another way to live — one rooted in truth, not survival.

My path unfolded slowly.
Through relationship, challenge, faith, study, and lived experience, I began to meet the parts of myself I had long avoided. I learned about addiction, healing, communication, shadow work, and the nervous system. I learned what it meant to stay present instead of fleeing, to feel instead of numbing, and to listen instead of performing.

In 2016, I met my business partner and soul-aligned collaborator. Together, we explored the inner mechanics of belief, identity, and transformation — and through that work, ALT-U was born. What we built was not linear. We expanded, contracted, learned, paused, and rebuilt — always guided by integrity rather than force.

Today, my life is no longer driven by urgency or fear, but by alignment.

I moved from being someone who:

  • Shrunk, stayed quiet, and avoided conflict
  • Lived in constant anxiety and panic
  • Numbed herself through medication and disconnection
  • Feared hard conversations and unfamiliar territory
  • Planned life around fear rather than desire
  • Had no sense of identity or inner authority

To someone who now:

  • Knows who she is and stands in that knowing
  • Engages in honest, sometimes difficult conversations
  • Welcomes the shadow as a source of wisdom
  • Speaks for herself and others with clarity and compassion
  • Understands her nervous system, patterns, and default programs
  • Practices awareness, integrity, alignment, and self-trust
  • Honors her intuitive and sensory intelligence
  • Guides others through lived understanding, not theory

This space exists to share my journey — not as instruction, but as invitation.

Over time, I’ll be writing here about the path I’ve walked, the truths I’ve uncovered, and the practices that have supported real, embodied change.

You’re welcome here.
And if this resonates, you’re already on your way.

Something to think about…

  • You are not the pieces scattered across time. You are ONE. The parts you abandoned are not enemies; they are exiles waiting to return home.
  • Every thought, every word, every silence is a seed. To choose unconsciously is to recycle the past. To choose consciously is to step into creation.
  • Your nervous system is the altar where spirit and matter meet. Tune it, and you become coherent. Neglect it, and you become noise.
  • When thought, feeling, word, and action align – reality bends. Fragmentation leaks energy. Alignment multiplies it.

With & in love