I grew up in a big family, and for the first ten years of life, home was blissful, safe, super fun, and full of love. Then addiction entered the picture for my parents, they separated, and the people who were supposed to protect my siblings and I became, unintentionally so and in different ways, sources of instability and betrayal. I spent the remaining years of my childhood in and out of foster care until moving out on my own at fifteen.
As an adult, I’ve experienced long-term relationships marked by both love and betrayal. I’ve also experienced relationships with men who were loyal and helped me heal my relationship to trust and the masculine. Over time I went from asking..“Why does this keep happening to me?” to a more important question.. “How do I stay consistently devoted to myself, regardless of what's going on outside of me?” Learning to steward my own life and trust myself has become one of the deepest threads of my work.
My work draws from many angles of understanding human behaviour: an honours degree in Cultural Anthropology; graduate work in Medical and Psychological Anthropology; postgraduate study in trauma and stress; yoga teacher training, somatic practice, consent, radical compassion, conflict mediation; and more than two decades of personal study in spirituality.. including a decade of astrology and five years + of Human Design and developing/remembering my intuition.
(understanding human behaviour & experience through culture, meaning-making, relationships, & the social worlds we inhabit)
(radical accountability / radical compassion)
(land-based, collective belonging, cultural context, & liberation from Western individualistic models of self & relationship)
(boundary setting, how to give and receive)
(kinship with the more-than-human world, land based knowledge, & an animacy/relational ontology)
(emotional safety, impacts of trauma on relationships & identity)
(building a strong relationship with the inner child, et al)
(autonomic nervous system regulation, safety-building)
(understanding & communicating one's own needs, emotions, & boundaries in a way that is more likely to result in connection)
(self understanding through archetypal patterns, cycles, energetic tendencies, & a desire to connect with the divine)
(anthropological theory that posits people are interconnected within complex webs of relationships, environments, histories, & experiences that continually shape one another)
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