TOtheForgePD

YOPD athlete training with PD since 2025.  If you're looking to build your capability in the midst of living with PD, you're in the right place.

I’m doing this because a young-onset Parkinson’s diagnosis could have made me smaller, and I refuse to let it. When the diagnosis came, the deepest fear wasn’t the disease — it was about legacy. About how I’d show up for my family and especially my kids. Parkinson’s will change what I can do; it doesn’t get to decide who I am to them, or what I leave behind.

I sit at an unusual intersection — athlete, systems thinker, and patient — and I want to use it to give people with Parkinson’s more capability, more agency, and more reason to expect more from themselves and from the science. I’m here to demonstrate, not just say, that strength and optimism in the face of this disease are practiced traits anyone can build.