Welcome I'm Leslie…

I’m a wife, mother, grandmother, former traumatic brain injury rehabilitation therapist, and retired Catholic home educator.

Through years of professional work, marriage and family life, ministry, and my own formation journey, one question gradually came into focus:

How can knowing myself better help me receive and respond to God’s love—and more freely love the people He places before me?

I came to understand that self-knowledge is not the destination. When anchored in Christ, it can help us understand our God-given design, recognize recurring patterns, and grow in greater self-possession. With greater freedom, we become better able to love God with our whole selves and give ourselves in love to others—without erasing ourselves or confusing burnout with holiness.

Today, I accompany individuals and Christian couples who are hungry for growth but are not necessarily in crisis. Through the TAF Formation Methodology, I facilitate insight, help people align their lives with what matters most, coach intentional growth, and provide practical education, frameworks, and relational skills.

This forward-looking, formation-and-skills-based approach is distinct from counseling and spiritual direction. The work focuses on recognizing recurring patterns and growth edges and moving from awareness into intentional practice.

My work is grounded in Sacred Scripture, the sacraments, the traditions of the Church, and the Catholic understanding of the human person.

TAF creates space to explore who you are, whose you are, how you have been uniquely formed—and how you are being invited to love.

My path to Trinity Anchored Formation was not a straight one.

I came to faith as a young adult and entered the Catholic Church with a deep desire to love God and live my faith faithfully.

Growing up as a Third Culture Kid taught me early that ways of communicating and relating that feel completely natural in one setting can be understood very differently in another. Later, my work in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation taught me to look beyond what was immediately visible and recognize how differently people can process, respond, communicate, and adapt. Homeschooling my children reinforced the same lesson: people do not all learn, grow, or flourish in the same way.

Marriage, motherhood, faith, ministry, and my own continuing formation made those lessons deeply personal.

TAF grew from my desire to bring together what decades of rehabilitation, education, marriage and family life, Catholic faith, ministry, coaching, and my own formation had taught me.

For many years, I had absorbed the idea that being a loving wife and mother—and a faithful Christian—meant continually sacrificing: giving up what I loved, putting my own needs aside, and continuing to give even when I was depleted. I could easily confuse self-sacrifice with self-erasure and exhaustion with holiness.

Over time, I began to understand something different. Dying to self does not mean becoming less of the person God created me to be. Humility does not require denying my gifts, legitimate needs, desires, or God-given design. It calls me to see myself truthfully before God, allowing grace to order what is good within me—not making myself the center, but neither pretending that the self God created does not matter.

I began to see why self-knowledge and self-possession matter so much:

If I do not know myself, I cannot fully possess myself. And if I do not possess myself, what am I freely giving when I make a gift of myself?

Christian self-gift is not self-erasure. It is learning to receive myself from God, allowing grace to form and order what I have received, and becoming free enough to offer myself in love.

We are not formed by disappearing. We are formed by becoming more fully the persons God created us to be—and more free to give ourselves away in love.

Today, Trinity Anchored Formation gives me a way to accompany others in that same movement:

to know more deeply,
to possess more freely,
and ultimately, to give more fully.