I offer this work from experience.

Over years of accompanying people in hospitals, at bedsides, in crisis, and in stressful work environments, I began to see something clearly: there is a wholeness to being human that we have not necessarily been taught.

We are physical.
We are vulnerable.
We have bodies, histories, needs, desires, responsibilities.

We are vast.
We are aware.
We carry intuition, wisdom, mystery, and sovereignty.

Not in opposition.
Not in hierarchy.

But in intimate relationship.
Body and spirit.

Learning to integrate and express this union in my own life reshaped the way I am with others. And as a woman, it was especially vital to honor embodiment while also honoring the beauty and power of my soul. It required me to release inherited ideas about expectation, duty, purity, transcendence, and escape.

Nothing needed to be denied.
Nothing needed to be elevated above the rest.

At the same time, my path demanded an honest reckoning with the religious and spiritual ideas I carried.

Images of achievement.
Expectations about awakening.
Subtle hierarchies of better and worse.

As my reverence for physical life deepened, so did my surrender into mystery.
Both movements unfolded together.

From that, the presence available to others began to change.

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Formation & Experience

I hold a Master of Religious Studies and a Master of Divinity, and have worked professionally for over two decades as a hospital chaplain and behavioral health therapist. Since 2020, I have also maintained a private practice.

Accompanying individuals and families through trauma, mental illness, grief, loss, and profound life transitions, I learned how inseparable the physical and the sacred truly are.

My contemplative path has included direct study in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with its founder, Jon Kabat-Zinn, as well as long-term engagement with Andean shamanic traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. This study took me to Peru, India, and Nepal, where I spent extended periods in practice and instruction.

These experiences were not about spiritual accumulation or achievement — a realization I could feel my teachers continually returning me to. For me, they were developmental. They invited me to question inherited beliefs and subtle hierarchies, to face shadow and internal roadblocks, and to integrate body and spirit in my own life and in my relationship to a greater whole.

In recent years, my own prolonged illness and walking with my parents through their dying further deepened my understanding of vulnerability, embodiment, and surrender.

None of this made me certain.

It strengthened my integrity.