My great joy is to help people come home to themselves.

I do this through consulting and facilitating trainings, creating and presenting curriculum, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

With twenty years combined experience, including eleven years teaching high school in online, brick and mortar, and blended learning environments, I work at the intersection of Social Emotional Learning, Mind/Body Coaching, Neuroscience, and Intuitive Healing.

My experience:

I am a SourcePoint Therapy Practitioner, a Mindful Schools trained Mindfulness Instructor, a certified Mind/ Body Coach through The Embody Lab, and am training in Safe & Sound, a program designed by Stephen Porges (founder of Polyvagal Theory) using sound to heal trauma.

I have over a decade of experience building an LLC focused on self-exploration, resiliency cultivation, and long-term holistic health for educators, activists, and community space-holders called Arkitekt.  

As an educator, I have taught: Humanities, World Lit, US Lit, Drama, Creative Writing, Reading Recovery, Philosophy, Integrated Services, Life Skills, as well as running a GED program and founding one of the 1st Mindfulness Programs in my school district.

More about me

 

Writer + Speaker

 

I teach people how to create brave and nourishing spaces where people feel seen, heard, and held in the radical act of naming themselves and sharing their story, whether that be at a conference, with an organization, in a healing session, a circle, a classroom, a workshop, or one-on-one coaching. 

 

Embodied Healer

 

The depth of my offerings comes from the rawness of my human experience, most specifically as I bore witness to the ravaging of my son’s body by cancer and chose to rely upon faith in the unseen order, initiating me into a clear knowing about what matters and what does not when you surrender to the brutal (and holy) truth of suffering.

I am held by the ancient wisdom of the sacred feminine within my community, and as I sit at the feet of many wise guides and teachers. Before I am allowed to talk about a thing, I have to live the thing. Ideas incarnate inside my flesh. I think this is what integrity means: I don’t get to stay safe inside my head. What I go through becomes the medicine I can offer. This informs the potency of my work as a writer and presenter of transformational content.

 

3rd Way Maker

 

I am named for non-duality. My calling on the earth is to find the third way through and shine the light on this less traveled path. I believe in Both/And and finding the places where we can dwell together without defense. I also recognize I am a white cisgender woman with mostly dominant identities and inherent privileges. If this privilege is good for anything, it is to use my access to remove barriers of access.

 

Keeper Of The Fire

 

I see myself as a mystic in the lineage of healers like Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldua (who coined the phrase “keeper of the fire”). I walk into the fires because I know this is the only way to transform. My work is to catalyze a reckoning that becomes the fire of self-possession and unapologetic expansion.

“as keepers of the fire of transformation, we invite awareness of soul into our daily acts, call richness and beauty into our daily lives; bid spirit to stir our blood, dissolve the rigid walls between us, and gather us in. May our voices proclaim the bond of bridges.”

— Gloria Anzaldua