About Me

I know personally the pain of feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and confused as a mother.

I know the longing for something that brings you back to yourself instead of other people’s ideals or opinions.

Something that resolves your worries rather than dismissing them, that settles fear rather than aggravates it, that works gently, deeply, and forever……

I have spent the last twenty or so years gathering a bag of tools and tricks to help people resolve their worry, find their deeper healing story and step into living from their instinctual earth animal knowing. I have facilitated hundreds of College level students in small group inquiry, taught writing to dozens of groups and individuals, served numerous boards, assemblies, and organizations, created community projects and collaborative learning programs. Since the birth of my daughter in 2006, I have expanded and integrated my expertise to help mothers who want joyful births, radiant families…. and you know, less worry.

As an undergraduate, I studied Human Health and Behavior at The Evergreen State College. I have a masters degree in Great Books from St. John’s College as well an MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. I have traveled around the globe and maintained a spiritual practice over many years. I have made it my life’s work to recover my own resilient and radiant self from painful beginnings so that I can live in harmony with the earth and all her creatures…. and of course this is an ongoing process. I continue to do my own healing work so that I can become more and more present.

I have studied Childbirth Education, Midwifery, Craniosacral Therapy, Home-Funerals and Green Burials, Astrology, Compassionate Communication, Anthroposophy, and Heart Centered Business.

I am a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and current Head of the Weston A. Price Foundation Portland, Oregon Chapter. I am always learning more about traditional sacred and healing foods and how to recover individual and community radiance through nutrient dense foodways.

I am currently training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a Certified Permaculture Designer, and a Certified Professional Midwife.