Breath and body. Soil and soul.
To return home is to remember the home within-
the woven interconnectedness and the remembrance of our wholeness.

Storytelling is one of the most ancient ways of connecting with one another.
It is where we have the opportunity to listen, to empathize, to resonate and hear our own stories in one another.

My story transcends before I was born as I carry the blood line of alcoholics and mystics, nurturers and abusers, Catholics and Espiritistas, colonizers and the colonized. Early on as a child I felt like I lived in between worlds carrying a deep internalized despair, finding comfort in fantasy worlds, my Godfather would often ask me, “Where do you go?” I did not express or share my feelings but instead was the “good” kid - the first born and only daughter, taking care of my siblings and staying quiet. I experienced a childhood trauma that I buried away like a vault of secrets for 15 years. However this experience became a catalyst of wanting to be anywhere that was not in my mind or body. I am very open about my addiction that plagued me since I was 14 years old - but before the alcohol, before the drugs, was self harm. I share this because when I began my sobriety journey, it was a realization that this action was another symptom of trying to find relief, control and safety.

A shift happened in my late teens where I no longer cared to uphold the image of the “good” daughter - I just wanted out - and I found creative outlets in my art and destructive outlets in alcohol and drugs. I shut down and slowly started to become a shell of myself. It was easier to not believe in anything, because to believe in something greater than myself was to feel let down, to feel out of control. I moved to Chicago for art school and quickly my addiction became something I no longer had control over. My mental health was deteriorating and two years later, I moved back to Florida. From there, so much that was buried down within was pushed to the surface and then quickly buried again.
Suicidal ideations and attempts occurred and I had come to a place of acceptance that this is just how I am, this is how it is going to be.
It was impossible for me to dream of a different life.

The Remembering
Soon after moving back home, I was driving late one night with my dog when something shifted, a moment of sudden clarity, what I now recognize as a spiritual experience. It was a remembering, a knowing that there is a force greater than me. Call it God, Spirit, energy, or the Universe — I felt it and knew it deeply. In that same moment came a quiet relief: I no longer wanted to leave this life. I thought, almost playfully, that if I didn’t figure it out now, I might have to return and face it all again in the next life. That sweet, youthful fear somehow saved me.

Not long after, I began seeking meditation groups and found myself sitting in circles of all kinds at a small local spot in Florida, often the youngest there by decades. From those elders and teachers, I began learning how to connect to myself and to something beyond myself. That space became the catalyst for my devotion to the esoteric studies and practices that still guide me every day.

The Leaving
Around this time, I met someone that completely altered my life. I quickly found myself in a narcissistic and abusive entanglement that lasted for four years. At the time I confused it with love, intimacy and connection. I often had feelings that something was not right but I buried it with destructive coping skills. I silenced my thoughts and my voice. I became a person I no longer recognized. When I tried to find moments of solace through my spiritual practices, they became uprooted again with addiction and violence. It took a dozen attempts to leave him. There came a point where I had another opportunity that landed so divinely in my lap to leave that I feared if I didn’t take it, I would never get out. So I listened to the gentle and loud whispers of Spirit again and left. People often talk about the leaving and the healing of domestic violence, but not often the in between. The transition piece - where you have left but stay in contact, or on depressive and lonely nights caving in once again.
It is like a drug and it was such a messy place to be.

The Descent
At this time I was living in Brooklyn and after leaving him, I soon began to get curious about getting sober. I had several attempts in the past but it never lasted. I knew for a long time it was a problem, but it was a problem I was not ready to give up. That changed when I woke up one morning, not wanting to drink but knowing I had to. My body had become completely dependent on alcohol and to not have it would mean I would experience severe delirium tremens - including paranoia, hallucinations, confusion, tremors with a fast and irregular heartbeat. This scared me enough to start attending a 12 step program, but not enough to stick to it or stop drinking altogether. This cycle of addiction and depression continued in severity and then I made an impulse decision to move to Denver in hopes of starting over and staying sober.

No matter where you go, there you are… a new number, a new city, new people but still everything within me remained the same, until I committed to really change. It took a couple years for my recovery to really gain traction as I experienced multiple relapses and continued to put myself in harm’s way. Through this time I still had faith, I still practiced, I still studied, I still wanted to feel better and do better. A moment of clarity struck, another spiritual experience where I just knew that if I wanted to live the life I desire I had to commit to my recovery, the health of my mind, my body, my soul. I had to be vulnerable, I had to be honest. I always yearned to be of service to others. To care, to nurture, to deepen into the mysteries is innate for me but I also had to learn how to be of service to my own recovery and healing.

The Reclaiming
Our individual healing becomes collective healing and that is exactly what my journey has mirrored. Each day I am grateful for my sobriety because it has given me the ability to show up how I always knew was true but didn’t know how to cultivate. My recovery journey has not just been about recovering from addiction, but recovering from the pain that led me there. To recover is not to fix or to erase - but to create the capacity to be with it all. Because the memories, the flashbacks do not disappear, what has dissolved though is the day to day anxiety, sleeplessness, panic attacks, and the feeling of constantly walking on a tightrope, easily being uprooted.

My path has taken me to a place where I feel anchored, open and soft. I trust myself, I trust my body, my intuitive gifts, working with them instead of against them. I am confident in the person I am and how I get to show up for friends, family and my communities and partner. The relationships and friendships in my life are harmonious, loving and reciprocal. My healing has become generational healing and I see it taking root, taking shape, taking form. I also started to uncover and remember the sweet moments of my past that were locked away for so long.
I am incredibly grateful, remaining humble to my path and process.
I share not just my story with others but the innate gifts and practices that supported me and we all have access to.

The Work That Emerged & How I Serve
As a student of the healing arts and esoteric teachings for 15 years, I began my journey of stepping in to share these teachings eight years ago with spiritual counseling. Since then I have trained in somatic and spiritual practices with teachers and elders from all over the world and continue to be a lifelong student. As a multi-faceted practitioner, I share the creative and intuitive process of blending practices and rituals with people to most support their process. Alongside my trainings in somatics, energetics and trauma resolution, my work is deeply rooted in the living medicine of the earth. Daily rituals with plants, herbs, song and prayer keep me connected to cycles of renewal. These folk and ancestral practices nourish my work and serve as a reminder that healing is so much about returning to the body and the earth. It is walking the path of the heart in remembrance and reverence.

I believe that our ‘healing process can be a catalyst for post traumatic growth + spiritual transformation.’ I strive to offer the support and radical empathy I needed in my own journey and that we are all deeply deserving of.  As a recovering alcoholic/addict who suffered from CPTSD, I am passionate about guiding people through recovery to return to the traditional ways of healing, a softer way of living and re-discovering their innate wisdom.  I also specialize in working with sex workers, people with anxiety, trauma and those yearning to connect deeper within their body and a spiritual path.

We can soften and be in peace.  

It is vital in this work to nurture and acknowledge all aspects and parts of ourselves, including the parts that have been hidden. Together we will explore these inner parts giving them the support they need. It is here where we dissolve the separateness of these fragmented parts and anchor into wholeness. With the understanding of our suffering, we learn the root of our pain and begin to create self compassion and expression.  Through weaving somatic and spiritual practices with ancient medicine we will co-create accessible healing skills that align with your true needs within the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

My deepest intention is to walk beside others as they remember and unveil their innate capacity for healing, belonging, and transformation.

“As above, so below,
as within, so without,
as the universe, so the soul.”

Creative Passions
Along with the healing arts, I enjoy film photography, cooking, writing, making playlists, video editing, exploring my ancestry, spending time near bodies of water, and traveling. You can often find me weaving these passions into my healing practice.

Certifications & Experience
I am a Certified Spiritual Counselor, Substance Use Disorder Practitioner, Death Doula, Usui Reiki Teacher, Angelic Reiki Teacher, and a practitioner of Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), Thought Field Therapy, and AcuDetox.

I have studied through the Tantric Rose Mystery School with the Isis Magdalene Rose Lineage, and I am a lifelong student of Ceremonial Magick, Hermetic practices, Catholic mysticism, and Folk Medicine, all of which are woven into my daily life and practice.

With over eight years of experience in both 1:1 and group settings, I bring this work into sober living homes, treatment centers, hospices, and schools throughout Denver. I offer private sessions as well as groupwork for somatic and spiritual healing, addiction recovery, deathcare, and magickal teachings. Primarily based in Denver for in person sessions, we acknowledge this as the land of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho nations. You can book sessions in person or remotely.

Fun Details
Astrology top 3 - Pisces Sun & Rising with a Scorpio Moon (I’m ok I promise)!
Meyers and Briggs - INFJ
Human Design - Reflector
Enneagram - 2, The Helper

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