About Melissa
There was a time when my life looked completely fine from the outside.
I was doing everything I thought I was supposed to do.
Saying yes when I meant no.
Shrinking myself to keep the peace.
Slowly forgetting who I was.
Then life asked me a question I had never truly asked myself.
"Do you really love yourself?"
I didn't have an answer.
In fact, I wasn't even sure what loving myself meant.
That single question quietly changed the direction of my life.
I began slowing down.
Walking in nature.
Writing in journals.
Learning to sit in stillness.
Little by little, I began hearing something beneath all the noise.
My own voice.
When Life Asked Me to Go Deeper
A few years later, my beloved husband Mike died by suicide.
Nothing could have prepared me for that loss.
But the work of returning to myself gave me somewhere to stand while everything else felt like it was falling apart.
It didn't remove the grief.
It didn't take away the pain.
It simply reminded me that even in the darkest moments, something steady still existed within me.
That experience didn't make me stronger.
It made me softer.
More present.
More compassionate.
And it deepened something I had already begun to understand: life can change everything around us, but our relationship with ourselves can become a place we return to.
It taught me that coming home to ourselves isn't something we do once.
It's something we choose again and again.
Where This Journey Led Me
What began as a deeply personal journey of learning to hear myself again eventually became something I wanted to understand more deeply—and learn how to hold for others.
I began seeking out training, learning different approaches to self-awareness, inner inquiry, empowerment and purpose, and discovering how much can shift when someone has a safe space to slow down and listen to themselves.
Today, I am an Empowerment Coach and Work Your Light® Guide.
I bring both paths into my work, but the foundation is the same: I don't believe you need someone else to tell you who to become.
I believe you need space to reconnect with yourself, the support to explore what is true for you, and the confidence to begin choosing from there.
Why Halo Soulhood Exists
Today I trust myself in a way I never thought possible.
Not because life became easier.
But because I learned how to listen.
Halo Soulhood was created for anyone who feels disconnected from themselves beneath the weight of expectations, responsibility, burnout, grief, people-pleasing, or simply the pace of everyday life.
I don't believe you need to become someone new.
I believe your truest self has always been there.
Waiting patiently beneath the noise.
My Role
I'm not here to fix you or tell you who you should become.
My role is to help you create the space to hear yourself more clearly — to explore what is happening beneath the surface, reconnect with your own voice, and move forward with greater self-trust.
I bring the training, experience, questions, reflection, perspective and presence to the space.
You remain the authority on your own life.
I'm here to walk beside you while you reconnect with yourself.