About me.
I was drawn to this work through my own history of neurodivergence and codependency, as well as witnessing and supporting loved ones going through abuse and addiction.
Being human can be ripe with suffering. What do we do with the pain?
For much of my life, I wrestled with an inner battle, a smoldering fire to create change, to challenge what was unjust, to unearth intimacy that felt real. I devoured wisdom from radical thinkers, artists, and activists, absorbing everything from dharma talks to philosophical texts, weaving together my own and doing my best to work towards positive change.
Yet for all my longing for justice, intconnection, and belonging, I often felt incredibly disconnected from myself and others.
I could champion for others but I didn’t know how to fully feel or advocate for myself. I had gained cognitive tools without the embodied experience of change. A head quite separate from a big, aching heart.
The shift.
​​It was through a longing for peace and equity that I found my way into my body - a continued journey.
I became tired of finding myself feeling wired and tired; in relationships with people who either didn't have emotional capacity or were abusive. I became tired of repeating patterns I didn't want to repeat. I knew there had to be something deeper than insight to impact rewired change.
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I began to understand that liberation isn’t just about ideas - though ideas are wonderful. It's about our lived expression, how grotesquely truthful we become with ourselves, and how we show up for ourselves and each other.
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I befriended (and continue to befriend) the unloved parts of me: the ones that people-pleased, raged, and numbed.
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I learned that imagination, playfulness, and the body are beautiful doorways: not only to self-acceptance, but to something deeper: wholeness.
I came to believe that at the root of most suffering is disconnection: disconnection from our feeling senses, from our creativity that connects us to divinity (whatever that means to you) and disconnection from our un-storied and soul-led reality.
A Way Forward.
Rumi wrote, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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And when we’re bone-deep truthful: most of us know what it's like to live behind barriers that keep us closed off. Yet desire a life that is vibrant and rhythmically beating, rooted but accepting of the ebb and flow of life.
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But under achievement-based, overly-analytical, materialist culture that teaches us to one-up instead of elbow-up side-to-side... intimacy is severed. Intimacy with ourselves, first and foremost. And with other humans as well as the other-than-human world. We are conditioned to compete, to conquer, to under or over-give, and to guard our soft underbellies.
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Though just as easily as we numb, distract, and shut down, we can shift. This work so many of us are doing together is about the shift: about reclaiming connection... to our sensations, to our emotions, to each other. 
To our inner nature..
 To art, to nature, to myth, and to healing experiences of integration and cohesion.
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I know what it’s like to be in relationships that harm, on either side... I'd wager that most of us do.
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And I know, too, that when we turn inward, we tend to what we once believed was shameful, wrong, or unhealable.
We learn to harm less because we accept, care for, and dismantle that which seeks to harm.
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I am devoted to being a fellow traveler and guide, cultivating a world of care that values our senses and our emotionality.
And I am honored to be on this adventure with you.