About Walton
Relational Life Therapy Coach | Colorado

I spent 25 years learning how living systems grow — teams, children, ecosystems, soil, movement. As an outdoor educator, Master Naturalist, and Permaculture Designer, I understood deeply that you cannot force a living thing to thrive. You can only create the conditions for it.

What I didn't understand — not for a long time — was that relationship is a living system too.

When things felt chaotic in my closest relationships, my instinct was to impose order. Find the right framework. Read the right book. Design a better system. I'm a systems thinker; it's how I'm wired. And it didn't work. The harder I pushed to bring order to the chaos, the more the relationship pushed back. I could see the patterns clearly. I just couldn't seem to change them.

It wasn't until I found Relational Life Therapy that something actually shifted. Not because RLT gave me new information — I'd read the books. But because it gave me a practice. A way of tending to relationship instead of trying to architect it. Learning when to give, when to make requests, when to simply be present in the biosphere we'd created together. For the first time, I wasn't just thinking differently. I was showing up differently.

I raised three children as their primary caregiver after my divorce. Those years taught me more about relationship than any training ever could — what it means to stay when it's hard, to lead with warmth when you're depleted, to repair honestly when you've gotten it wrong. All three of my kids are thriving adults. I count that as my most meaningful work.

Today I live in Evergreen, CO with my partner and our blended family. I practice what I teach — not perfectly, but honestly, and with full commitment. The principles of Relational Life aren't a methodology I apply with clients. They're how I try to live every day.