I was born in New Hampshire and grew up in a fairly sheltered world. I went to Waldorf school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, which deeply shaped the way I see and move through the world. Waldorf gave me a profound relationship to imagination, nature, creativity, beauty, and the arts.

Dance and musical theater were the places where I felt the most alive. They were where I felt most connected to myself, most expressed, and most at home in my body.

At the same time, I was a chubbier kid, and I received a lot of reflection from the world around me that my body made me less worthy, less desirable, and less acceptable. Those messages got in deep.

After graduating high school, I moved to Boulder, and soon after, I developed a severe eating disorder. I struggled with bulimia for about four years, trying desperately to heal a pattern that was harming me on every level.

What finally helped me find my way back was not rehab, or traveling, or willpower.

It was embodiment. It was dance. It was movement. It was learning how to feel right and at home in my body again. It was slowly, slowly building a relationship with my body that was based on listening instead of fear.

Truly, my daily practice started by sitting with my hands in my lap for at least fifteen minutes after eating a meal.

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Through body-based practice, I came home to myself. I fell back in love with my body, my aliveness, and my life. That experience became the foundation of my devotion to somatic healing.

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I went on to study SomaSoul at the Leven Institute and became deeply immersed in somatic therapy, expressive movement, and body-led practice. I have also been a student of Five Rhythms and other movement-based healing spaces that helped me understand the body as a doorway into truth, emotion, transformation, and spirit.

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Over the years since, my path has moved through medicine spaces, ceremonial containers, and a shamanic de-armoring program that changed how I understood healing itself ( spoiler alert- we heal exponentially faster through pleasure than we do through despair).

Working with Bufo medicine and sitting in shamanic, sound-based spaces shifted my perspective at a level I couldn't have reasoned my way into. I began to know certain truths — truths of connection, of oneness, of my own belonging — in my bones, not just my head. 

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I still walk the push-pull between old contracted patterns and a new baseline of peace. I don't offer this work from the other side of it, finished and arrived. I offer it from inside the ongoing practice of learning how to move and alchemize the energy that moves through me, rather than staying stuck in it — and from the conviction that this is available to everyone, not just the already-healed.

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These days, I live in Boulder with my wonderful dog (she's a whole other story). I spend a lot of my free time hiking with her, being on the land, and letting nature be part of my own ongoing practice. I feel deeply connected to the beauty of this place, and to the ways the natural world continues to teach me presence, intuition, rhythm, and belonging.

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At the heart of everything I do is a devotion to collective awakening through individual reclamation.

I believe every person who comes home to themselves — who learns to stop giving their power away and instead wields it fully within their own vessel — becomes part of the healing we are all living inside of.

This is the work I am here for.​

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I believe every person who comes home to themselves — who learns to stop giving their power away and instead wields it fully within their own vessel — becomes part of the healing we are all living inside of.

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I believe every person who comes home to themselves - who learns to stop giving their power away  and instead wields it full through their vessel - becomes part of the healing we are all living inside of.

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This is the work I am here for.