A Soul Guide…
I set out on my journey 30 years ago to discover what I then called the Universal Truths. One of my greatest findings is that we are indeed malleable and have the power to change our beliefs and stories, and that we are truly creators. We can change our reality and when we align to our soul, find our center, our passion, our voice and work together, we can change our collective reality.
It is not always easy to shed conditionings, look into the shadow and walk our truth. It can be messy, it can be confusing, it can be lonely. But the depths we plumb and the insights and vistas we are given the grace to look out upon when we trust and do the work are truly awesome, rich and poignant and cannot be compared to staying within the narrow confines of society’s norm.
This is where I meet you- as a way bearer, supporter, nourisher and soul-loving rallier- giving ear, reflection, heart and inspiration to support you on your journey to fulling your soul purpose.
At 20, I left school to travel. I wanted to see the diversity of life. I wanted to live on the current that Spirit provides when we let go the banks of the river. I let go- seeking to wash away the norms, value system and blinders I was raised with. I found deep connection to the Earth and the subculture that was picking up tribal ways so familiar to our collective memory- rekindled in the forests, with fire, with drum, with song, with coming together in mutual support to figure out what was core to human community before the infrastructure of this modern society with its competition and separation was built.
I soon became pregnant and started my initiation into the herbal world, developing close allies with a number of plants. Wherever I stayed long enough, I planted a garden and lined my shelves with herbs, learning what I could through personal experience and books.
I co-started an intentional community in western North Carolina in the late 90’s that I envisioned to be an Ark to collect all species of healing plants that would grow happily in the sweet and fertile Appalachian mountains. Many passed through our land for a day or a season, it was a sanctuary for drifters and dreamers. I had deeper lessons to learn though before putting down such roots and I found myself calling for stronger spiritual guidance and the tried and true knowledge of age old traditions and elders.
My bootcamp in deep soul work was Islam, and Spirit led me to join an Afghan family where I spent the next 13 years in an underworld journey and jihad. It was here that I went into the cocoon and looked at everything I had ever done and thought, and through the crucible of dissolution reduced my personality and ego to the core of my being. One day, after 7 years of excruciating dismemberment, I sat up from my bed, and there was quiet. That gripping hood of arrogance, entitlement, self aggrandizement, self pity, pettiness and separation that I had dominated my inner world, had just slipped from my head and for the first time in my life, I had space.
From this deep dark descent I grew again, recognizing the extraordinary feeling that my slate had been burned clean. I asked for guidance in every choice before me and over the next 6 years, step by step i came back to the surface and I found a depth of love, humility and compassion that I had never known before. My soul, the thin silver thread to Spirit, became unshakable, undaunted by others and thrived on bounding down the path of my life work picking up tools, expanding my edges and deepening my understanding of the extraordinary journey of soul.
In 2013, emerged from this chrysalis, I went into a formal 3 year herbal training in western and chinese medicine to take my long time passion to the next level. I also did a 3 year training in core shamanism followed by a 2.5 year training in Biodynamic craniosacral therapy. On fire with passion, will, devotion and clarity, I saw my life blooming before me and claimed every opportunity to empower my vision and the communities in which I felt deep resonance. In 2014 I began hosting women’s circles which began my apprenticeship to the incredible healing and evolutionary power of sharing heart in council, song and ceremony. I was deeply inspired by such teachers as Tracey Forest, Katrina Koravos, Laney Goodman, ALisa Starkweather, Rosemary Gladstar and many many others.
In 2018 I experienced another descent and was abducted into the underworld by Wild Woman, She Who Speaks for Serpent. Emerging from this descent in 2019, the 13 Moons program was born. Recognizing the unique soul journey of women and the importance of doing our healing work in the amplified vessel of sisterhood, I dove into the gestation and birth of my life work.
In 2020 I was introduced to the Animas Valley Institute and my evolution has been deeply informed by this extra-ordinary body of work which has guided me even deeper into Mystery and the imperative and opportunity of these times.
