Thirty-five years ago, as a young adult, I travelled to India and Europe to study the energetic arts. This began my first five-year initiation into the mystery schools. This was long before the internet or smartphones, when wellness and spiritual study were much harder to access. I spent my teens and twenties building what could be called an impressive psychedelic pedigree. Later, I stepped into a five-year apprenticeship that took me deep into plant-medicine study.

Ultimately, my early efforts to set myself on a path of helping others were subsumed by addiction and unresolved family trauma.

Twenty years ago, I was given the gift of sobriety. Since then, I’ve worked steadily on my own healing while growing my practice to support others. I began with somatic and energy-body work. Then for another five years I went on to program-manage two houses for women and children fleeing abuse, as well as a school for vulnerable and underserved urban youth.

Over time, I moved into trauma-informed coaching and facilitation. My work in governance best practices, emotional regulation, and self-awareness has brought my circles and workshops into communities and into both federal and provincial agencies.

For decades now, I’ve sat in many circles in both plant and direct-line ceremony. The energetic arts and ceremonial realms are powerful, but they are also vulnerable and largely unregulated spaces. They require protection, clear boundaries, and strong spiritual hygiene.

I specialize in supporting people healing from trauma, codependency, and addiction. I also hold a soft spot for practitioners and spiritual initiates who are learning their scope, their gifts, and their responsibilities, and how all of these intersect.

I’ve been running community new- and full-moon circles for twenty years and remain active in ceremonial study. People know me for my humor, and I’m a respected traditional singer. To stay balanced and avoid burnout, I love canning my soups, stews, pickles, and preserves. I’m a dog and cat mom, and an auntie to many.

Along the red road, I’ve also been gifted a chosen daughter and son-in-law, and I have grandchildren in the far north of Canada who I love and cherish endlessly.