My Story
My journey began with my father, who had cancer for half of my life before he passed away. Over ten years, as he faced and learned to embrace death through his own process and ways, I was there to listen and take it all in, even if I didn't understand it all at the time.
He was the first to invite me to befriend silence, stillness, and reflection. He showed me how to see the beautiful divine in all things. And ultimately, he taught me what it is to trust and surrender, because that's all there is to do in the end.
He planted seeds that continue to surprise and sprout in me; he showed me the doorway to a spiritual path that I've been grateful to walk my whole life, with him still alongside.
Through this lens of curiosity and gratitude for life (and death), I have lived and ventured through this life - exploring, seeking, experiencing, learning, loving, sharing. This search to understand life, death, place, belonging, home, and everything in between and beyond, has presented me with extraordinary and ordinary gifts of teachings that have shown me and woven the different pieces of my being together and into connection with that around me.
From all these explorations and experiences, teachers and guides, have come an avalanche of lessons and learnings, for which life has become a beautiful, endless process of integration. Along the way, I have learned and remembered what home is, and now walk everyday on this way back home, to my wise, wild, whole, authentically expressed, soulful Self.
My Formal Education and Influences:
Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry Year-long Training Program, Advanced Mentorship, and Certification; Suicide Attention Course 2023-present
Internal Family Systems - Coaches Foundation, Addictive Processes Course, IFS Online Circle 2025-2026
MAPS MDMA Program 2025
Kiyumi’s Integrative Psychedelic Facilitator Program 2025-6
Authentic Flow Somatic Yoga Teacher Training with Satu Tuomela 2023
Hatha Yoga and Meditation 600 hr Teacher Training at Hridaya School and Center 2019
IFC-certified Accomplishment Coaching Training Program 2014-5
Fireside Project Harm Reduction Volunteer 2021-2023
Integration Essentials Reading and Study Group at Fluence 2019
Integration Consultation Group with The Integration Circle and Psychedelics Today 2019
Indigeny Today Short Course at Schumacher College 2018
Plant Communications at Damanhur 2017
The Wild Women Project
Global Ayahuasca Conference (Girona, ES) 2019
Plantas Sagradas Conference (Ajijic, MX) 2018
WiLD Speak Conservation Photography Conference (Washington DC, US) 2017
Horizons Conference (Volunteer) (New York, US) 2012-2017
Afrikaburn Zendo Harm Reduction Volunteer 2015
Glimpses into my journey:
