I Heard the Music First.
Songwriter. Somatic guide. The one who needed the tools first.
1994 — the cassette
A singer named Terry Kelly walked into my high school and performed a song called "We Can Do Anything." I went home, wrote a letter to his recording company, and asked them to mail me the instrumental track so I could sing it at my wedding. They sent it on cassette. I was seventeen.
The following June, my husband and I sang that song to each other.
2009 — Digby Pines
I watched music used as the teaching medium, reaching the part of people that slides and bullet points can't touch. And every cell in my body said: Yes. That is what I am going to do.
The stop, and the name
And then one day my body did what my mind refused to: it stopped. The tools I teach now are the tools I reached for first, because I had to.
In 2016 came the Health Coach certification, the name — Essentials for Balance — and a logo sketched by hand.
Harmony by Design is my original music, written not for playlists, but for practice.
We don't do hype here. We don't do gurus. We do honesty, breath, and the occasional song that makes your eyes leak.