I created Sensing Wellness through my own experience of learning how to live more intentionally. Over time, I began to realize how much the little details of my day affected the way I felt — the music I listened to, the food I ate, the spaces I spent time in, the routines I created, and the moments I gave myself to slow down and simply notice.

Without necessarily calling it sensory wellness at the time, I was learning how to care for my mind, body & soul through my senses.

After starting my first corporate job in 2021, I experienced how easy it was for my own well-being to fall out of focus. Spending most of my days working from home, especially through the cold Illinois winters, I realized how much I was missing movement, time outside, warmth, and simply feeling connected to my environment. I started to recognize that the way I felt wasn’t separate from my surroundings or the way I was spending my days.

That awareness made me curious about what I could change. I started envisioning a life that gave me more of what I was craving and eventually made the decision to move across the country to California. It was a huge change, but one that showed me what could happen when I paid attention to what I wanted, trusted myself enough to act on it, and allowed my life to evolve from there.

Looking back, these were some of my earliest experiences with sensory wellness before I ever had a name for it. I was learning that the environments I chose, the experiences I created, and even the smallest details of my day could influence how I felt. The more I paid attention to those details, the more I understood myself and the more intentionally I could care for myself.

Eventually, I recognized a pattern: so much of what helped me reconnect with myself came back to my senses. But my connection to the senses wasn’t new. I can remember being fascinated by them as early as elementary school — how we all experience the world through the same five senses, yet develop preferences that are completely our own.

That fascination stayed with me as I got older. Over time, I began to see the senses as more than just a way we experience the world, but as a way to better understand ourselves and how we want to feel.

That connection became the foundation for Sensing Wellness.

Today, I see sensory wellness as a practice of noticing what’s already around you, understanding how it makes you feel, and using that awareness to better care for yourself. It has helped me become more present, practice gratitude, strengthen my self-trust, and create a life that feels increasingly intentional and true to me.

With my background in health coaching and nutrition, along with my love for creativity and personal growth, I created Sensing Wellness to share resources, practices, and experiences that help you explore that same connection for yourself.

At its core, sensory wellness is about getting to know yourself through your senses — what you notice, what you prefer, what you need, and how you want to feel. By bringing more awareness and intention to your sensory experiences, you can create more moments of sensory satisfaction and, in turn, care for your mind, body & soul.

Thank you for being here. I hope Sensing Wellness gives you another way to reconnect with yourself, appreciate what’s already around you, and live with a little more intention.