My Story

I have walked a long ways to arrive here!  As one of my mentors Elayne Kalila Sophia says, “Life is the initiation.”

I share a list of credentials below, but I know that my greatest gift was not cultivated within the classes I have taken, but rather in the wounds I have transformed.

I came into this world emotionally rejected by my mother. I did not know this for most of my life, and carried a heavy weight of alienation, shame, abandonment and the belief that I didn’t belong here. 

I bypassed this trauma believing that there was something wrong with me that made me too sensitive, too needy, and that pushed away those I loved. 

I coped by escaping to other worlds filled with faerie folk and kind, magical beings. I led a girl group in my neighborhood and every moment I could, I would spend with my friends rather than at home with my emotionally chaotic family.

I spent the first part of my professional life as a psychotherapist but quickly burned out and knew it wasn’t for me. I then wandered from job to job through a prolonged existential crisis in deep depression until I discovered tarot and began to come back to my true spiritual, multi-dimensional nature.

It was when I met the Goddess that I truly began to heal. 

As I began to embody the Great Mother, I experienced a form of love that I never had growing up and didn’t even know was possible.

This love of the Goddess cracked me open and exposed all the unloved parts of me. She called me deeper and deeper inward meeting all parts of my shadow, challenging me to love myself unconditionally. 

She took me down the red thread of my mother’s lineage, releasing ancestral karma and contracts that held me a place of separation so that I could return to wholeness. 

She brought me back into balance of my feminine with masculine, light with dark, human with soul, creative with destructive powers.

The greatest lesson I learned is that we all carry a core wound of separation—something that has severed our sacred connection to our Earth Mother. 

It is in the healing of this wound that we experience what it truly means to belong and feel whole. It is in the alchemizing of our wounds that is our greatest gift to humanity. I would not be the Priestess I am today if I was not rejected by my mother.

It was in sisterhood and ceremony with the Goddess and through my body that I healed and came back to life.

During a pilgrimage to Glastonbury, England in 2022 my spiritual journey took a turn deeply inwards into the layers of inner earth. 

I met ancient ancestors of the faerie races who guided me on a series of profound shamanic journeys, initiations and lessons about the hidden worlds below the surface of our planet, and the spiritual enlightenment that may be experienced by reaching earth’s center and communing with the Goddess. 

After moving to the Central Coast I finally began to feel for the first time that I was truly home. 

I laid down deep roots and I can feel them flourish and grow stronger with each new day. I am profoundly grateful to be surrounded by so much love—from the ancient oaks upon the rolling hills, to the hawks, doves and vultures, to the deer, foxes and skunks that regularly grace this land, and to my chosen family that grows and heals alongside me each and every day.

I awaken each morning to a renewed commitment to be a steward and protector of Mother Earth, and to give back to her all that she has gifted me, and then some!