Real talk,

I'll always be a work in progress ✨️

Everyone has a story and plethora of experiences shaping their existence

Mine was of an average Midwestern, latchkey kind for an oddball kid; I felt out of place from the jump and I careened through life searching for the truth behind my weirdness and obscurity

"What the hell is wrong with me?" was an obsessive motivation in exploring spirituality and psychology

It is rather exhausting investigating a soul's repression + transmuting generations of garbage, patriarchal programming, but

I'm driven to purge toxic shame and embody a radical self-awareness, and inspire others when I can to find their authentic expression

I don't hide aspects of myself or details of my past

Healing requires bravery into the chaotic unknown and a surrender to grace in the natural unfolding

The Heroine's Journey

Neglect, isolation, and sexual/emotional abuse were strong themes during my formative years, and portions of my adult life were dissociative and adopting co-dependent people pleasing behaviors from said trauma

I crawled through life with undiagnosed AuDHD, and developed C-PTSD over time from suppressed memories & repetitive trauma

The same karmic loops trapped me for years, so

I searched for truth in a number of places:

Churches for some seasons; I was raised Catholic, and then turned to Christianity in my early teens, even becoming an ordained pastor in my early 20's

Then I left the church around the age of 29

[Saturn Return] and became a part of "the scene" as a bartender, party girl, and gasp! Witch.

Both seasons were filled with great moments, yes, but more overall lessons of living misaligned and away from my heart

I wanted to heal from the ache and emptiness I felt inside that both the church or partying wasn't fulfilling

I knew what I was looking for wasn't in dogmatic texts or in days long benders

So I wandered..

Compounded trauma, abuse, heartbreak, divorce,

domestic violence, estrangement, and death led me to creating a self-sabotaging & harmful loop of addiction, chronic anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation

No matter how many times I wanted to check out, something would drag me back into the light, seeking answers to my survival and restoration

For the past decade, I invested in books, workshops, lectures, teachings, mentorship, therapy, medicine, and community around varying grounded healing and spiritual authenticity

The toxic shame, that once consumed me, was deeply tied to the privilege of whiteness, and in order to truly heal from it, I needed to unlearn it

Slowly it is dissolving, revealing deeper parts of who I am, but

recalibration is no walk in the park with light colored linen

It's a purifying fire, self appointed pyre

But what can come out of the fire is absolutely worth the burn

The cosmic truth in it all is that healing is neverending

The uncomfortable reality that the minute one thinks they have a grasp on anything, something else reveals itself to humble you

I'm grateful for every mountain and valley, even though many 'lessons' led to burnout... I am alive because deep down something was too restless to let me die

The process has been anything but linear-- there have been setbacks, moments of burnout, times where the weight of the past felt unbearable, and dark nights of the soul

Grace allowed me to face the trapped memory and shadows that kept me in self-sabotaging loops

My recovery has been a sacred journey of returning to wholeness through:

reclaiming animist & ancestral witchcraft practices
releasing trapped emotion in the body (somatic healing)
quitting alcohol (personal choice)
herbal + plant therapy
nervous system support/breathwork
inner child healing
decolonial shadow work
rewiring limiting beliefs at a subconscious level [QEC]
years of reading, studying, and observing
consistent accountability with elders + mentors
sitting with the trees, wind + water

My background, trainings, and education

QEC Practitioner Training, Module 2, Dr. Melanie Salmon, September 2025-February 2026

Co-facilitator for the Sophia Circle,

year long devotional

March 2025 to May 2026

QEC Create the Life You Want - Module 1,

Dr. Melanie Salmon, July 2025

Sophia Circle, a year long devotional path with the Great Mother,

Genevieve Akal with Gnostic Alchemy Jan 2024 to January 2025

The Medicine We Carry, awakening our Ancestral Practice, Sasha Heron

March 2024 - May 2024 &

June 2024 - August 2024

Grief Cafe for Gaza - volunteer co-facilitator 2023-24

Shameless Goddess, Adriana Rizzolo of Art of Loving,

December 2024 to June 2025

Guarding Your Spirit Protecting Your Energy in a Colonized World, Dra. Rosales Meza 2024

Ordained Pastor 2004 Antioch Christian Center

Certification of Ministry through Universal Life Church 2022

800 hour Massage Therapy (Everest Institute) 2012

( Several continuing educational modalities, i.e

Prenatal Massage, Cupping )

Reiki I/II + Holy Fire, William Lee Rand (2019)

Reiki Teacher Certification, Vicki Leitz Kibby with Earth Wisdom 2023

Full Spectrum Doula Training

(prenatal, birth, postpartum, loss)

Doula Trainings International 2021-2022

Herbal Foundations Level One 6 month Online Immersion,

Mary Blue 2022

A Year of Gaia - Gaia School of Healing 2023-2024

Foundation in Tarot, SunMoonTarot 2020

Continuing education in Art, Psychology, Social Work 2001-2023

The Heroine's Journey

searching for truth

My background, trainings, and education

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