Hi, I'm Natalie
Founder of Vim & Zen
My Story...
I spent most of my life tuned in to everyone else. I could tell you exactly what each person around me needed or how they felt. But me? I wasn't even part of the equation.
I thought my self-awareness was well-developed. Turns out, I had other-awareness down pat—but self-awareness? That was missing entirely.
My biggest clue? I stumbled over a simple question:
"How are you?"
I genuinely had no idea how I was.
That's when I started realizing that me being so out of touch with myself was doing no one any favors. I began a process of learning how to pay attention to myself. To notice where I actually was instead of where I thought I should be. To stop monitoring everyone else's emotional state as if their regulation was my responsibility or that it needed to come at the cost of my dysregulation.
I began to recognize I had my own signal—and learn how to listen to it.
BS in Family and Human Development
Masters in Business Creation - University of Utah (In Progress)
Certified Life Coach (ADDCA)
Special Education Teaching Experience and Certification
Harvard Medical School Certificate: Building a Life of Wellness
Mom to four boys/men 😀
Why I do This Work...
Most self-help advice assumes you already have the foundation. It assumes you know how to pay attention to yourself, notice where you are, and adjust accordingly.
But most of us were never taught this part. We're just supposed to already know how.
When you're trying to use communication skills while your body thinks it's drowning? All that great advice just... doesn't stick.
Vim & Zen teaches the part that usually gets skipped- the foundation. The thing that makes everything else actually work.
Once you learn to pay attention to yourself—to notice where you are and listen to your own signal—suddenly all that advice you've been given? It finally makes sense. And it finally sticks. At last I'm understanding that in order to have the real relationships that I value-it starts with a real connection to me.
And when I find something that changes me- I feel compelled to share.
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