No Longer Her(e): A Woman’s Journey Through Breakups, Reinvention and the Search for Home
Corporate Connie.
Self-employed Connie.
Married Connie.
Divorced Connie.
Nomad Connie.
“Maybe I’ll settle” Connie.
Spiritual Connie.
Blogger Connie.
Each version of me thought she had it figured out — she didn’t.
But none of them were wrong either, they were all building the next one.
Somewhere between boardrooms and beach towns, spreadsheets and dance floors, across 40+ countries and countless reinventions, I started to understand something I wish I had known earlier:
You don’t find yourself once — you meet yourself over and over again in different forms.
If I’m being honest, I’ve always thrived in chaos.
When things started to feel too steady, too predictable, too “this is it” — something inside me would start to itch.
It wasn’t loud at first.
Just a quiet unease, a subtle disconnection, a feeling I couldn’t fully explain but couldn’t ignore either.
And instead of sitting with it… I would blow things up.
A marriage that looked like a fairytale.
A career that checked every box.
A condo I was proud to own.
A life that, by all accounts, should have felt like enough.
But every time I got there — every time I started to settle into it — something inside me would say:
This isn’t it.
And instead of asking why, instead of getting curious, I would make a hard right turn.
Burn it down. Start again. Repeat.
For a long time, I thought that meant something was wrong with me.
Now I see it differently.
In 2025, I talked to a medium who said something that landed in a way that finally made sense:
“You thrive in chaos. You like to have multiple things going on at once.”
And for the first time, instead of trying to fix that part of me — I understood it.
The problem wasn’t that I needed less chaos.
The problem was that I had never learned how to hold both:
Movement and stability.
Freedom and grounding.
Expansion and safety.
I thought it had to be one or the other.
But what if it didn’t?
What if I could build a life where I had a steady income and multiple creative outlets?
Where I could have a home base and still explore?
Where I didn’t have to destroy something good just to feel alive again?
That realization changed everything.
Not overnight, not perfectly, but fundamentally.
My numerology life path is a three. If you’re into that kind of thing, it means my life will always circle back to:
Expression.
Creativity.
Storytelling.
Communication.
Turning emotion into something tangible.
Three has followed me long before I ever knew what numerology was — growing up as an only child, it was always the three of us: me, my mom, my dad. Now I catch myself using three exclamation points when I’m excited, three emojis when something really hits and I’ve even tattooed 333 on my hand because I see it everywhere — my little wink from the universe.
If you’re not into that kind of thing, here’s the simpler version:
I process life by creating from it.
Everything I go through — the heartbreak, the confusion, the joy, the in-between moments — eventually becomes something.
Words.
Movement.
Ideas.
Connection.
That’s what ties all my “different lives” together.
For years, I tried to make this website something it wasn’t.
More polished.
More niche.
More “clear.”
More acceptable.
It never felt right.
It never felt like me.
So I avoided it.
Didn’t share it.
Let it sit quietly in the background like something I was slightly embarrassed of.
Because it didn’t fully capture who I was.
And if it didn’t feel true, I didn’t want to be seen in it.
This is the first time I’m doing it differently.
This is me bringing my full self into one place.
Not perfectly packaged.
Not overly defined.
Not reduced to a single identity.
But fully expressed.
This space is going to shift.
Some months there might be writing.
Other months, something I’m creating.
Maybe a meditation.
Maybe a product.
Maybe just thoughts I needed to get out of my head.
And instead of trying to control that — I’m finally letting it be what it is.
Alive.
I work with a small number of clients across the running and political spaces.
For a while, I was completely immersed in politics — constantly plugged in, always on, absorbing more than I realized.
And at some point, I had to admit it wasn’t good for me.
So I pulled back.
Cleaned up what I consumed.
Muted the noise.
Created space again.
Now, I do the work I’m good at — strategy, systems, relationships — without letting it consume me.
I care deeply about building things that work.
I care about clarity, efficiency and results.
But I also care about having a life outside of it.
And if I’m being honest?
I still hate having meetings on my calendar.
For the first time in nine years of full-time travel, I’ve decided to “settle down.”
(cue the internal panic)
But my version of settling doesn’t look like staying still.
It looks like choosing a base — right now, Brasil — and building a life within movement instead of constantly escaping through it.
My current vision:
8–10 months in Brasil
2–3 months in my heart home of Costa Rica
1–2 months exploring somewhere new
Check back with me at the end of 2026 to see how much that changes.
For now, I’m learning Portuguese.
Fully committed.
Fully humbled.
Boraaaaa.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a fashion designer.
I even interviewed at the Fashion Institute.
And then… life happened. Soccer happened. Different paths unfolded.
But that desire never fully went away.
So I’m coming back to it.
Learning beadwork.
Learning sewing.
Creating things with my hands again.
Right now, that looks like designing a few pieces for Burning Man 2026.
Long term, it looks like a small batch collection in 2027.
This is one of those threads I’m following without needing to know exactly where it leads.
At 34, I published my first book:
No Longer Her(e): A Woman’s Journey Through Breakups, Reinvention and the Search for Home.
It’s the most honest thing I’ve ever created.
A collection of my own unraveling and rebuilding — through relationships, travel, identity shifts and everything in between.
It’s not perfect, but it’s real.
And I know — deeply — that it has the power to reach the people who need it.
Now, I’m focused on getting it into more hands.
If you have ideas, connections or just want to read it —
I’m all ears.
Because the publishing world is… wild.
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Meta-certified to run political and advocacy ads.
Managed multi-million dollar ad budgets and national campaigns.
Food safety certified from my Target ETL days.
Certified personal trainer (NASM).
Certified yoga teacher (RYT-200).
Maybe you’ve had multiple lives too.
Maybe you’re in the middle of changing one right now.
Maybe you’re standing at the edge of something new and don’t fully trust it yet.
I get that.
I’m in it too.
I don’t have everything figured out.
But I do know this:
You’re allowed to change.
You’re allowed to evolve.
You’re allowed to outgrow versions of your life that once made sense.
There is nothing wrong with becoming someone new.
Again and again and again.
This space will change.
I will change.
That’s the point.