About Torie
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. I’m Torie, a Money Medicine practitioner and certified Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute. I’m a cat mama, daughter, sister, auntie, and human relative of all that breathes and moves on this Earth. I’ve been drawn to personal growth and healing since my teens, spending many breaks home from college immersed in multi-day transformational courses. Often the youngest person in the room, I regularly heard some version of: “Wow, I wish I’d had access to this at your age.”
I get it. Once you taste what it’s like to soften and open to your authentic self, to receive the healing that’s been barreling at you like a freight train, to let go of what’s no longer serving you and your happiness… it’s a compelling path.
I served for six years in the Coaching Program at the international mental health organization, Lyra Health, first as a Mental Health Coach and then as a Coach Supervisor. During that time, I supported hundreds of clients to connect with themselves with courage and depth, apply evidence-based mental health skills in their everyday, and create positive change in their lives. As a supervisor, I trained and mentored dozens of coaches as they brought their unique gifts to life in their work.
The Money Thread
My relationship with money was shaped from an early age by my mom, Tammy, who taught me and my siblings the fundamentals of saving, investing, and monthly cash-flow review. I had always been an interested student of these money ways. I can still picture the toy I requested from SkyMall magazine: a plastic electronic ‘bank.’ I loved punching in the code to open the lid, entering the amount I was depositing, and watching the balance steadily grow over time. (What can I say, y’all? I’m a Virgo Rising.)
By 17, I had my first bookkeeping clients. By 19, I had helped dozens of adults create sustainable budgeting and cash flow review practices for their personal finances. Clients shared that beyond the initial confrontation of the numbers, it was incredibly illuminating to clearly see their money behaviors. They learned to use budgeting to take care of their lives more holistically and start making more decisions connected to their values rather than from reactive, survival-based patterns.
In my twenties, I also participated with Resource Generation, where I organized young adults with wealth and class privilege to engage in wealth redistribution—the act of giving away excess wealth to people who are struggling to survive, with a focus on funding BIPOC-led social movements working for systemic change. I received and facilitated political education workshops and got to experience the power of coming together in community to grieve the failures of our current systems and envision radical new possibilities. I am humbled and shaped by the leadership of the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and POC movement organizers who have brought vision, strategy, and partnership to Resource Generation.
May we carry forward the torch of transforming our economic systems to serve life instead of greed.
May we learn to relate to money newly, so that it is no longer a barrier to our thriving but the very medicine that feeds it.
May we all have and be enough.