My work draws from many angles of understanding human behaviour: an honours degree in Cultural Anthropology; graduate work in Medical & Psychological Anthropology; postgraduate study in trauma & stress; yoga teacher training, somatic practice, consent, radical compassion, conflict mediation; & more than 2 decades of personal study in spirituality, including a decade of astrology & 5 years of Human Design & developing/remembering my intuition.
I grew up in a big family, & for the first 10 years of life, home was blissful, safe, & full of love. Then addiction entered the picture, my parents separated, & the people who were supposed to protect my siblings & I became, in different ways, sources of instability & betrayal. I spent the remaining years of my childhood in & out of foster care until moving out on my own at 15.
As an adult, I’ve experienced long-term relationships marked by both love & betrayal, including being cheated on in 4 significant relationships. I’ve also experienced relationships with men who were loyal & loving. Over time my focus 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 trust myself & steward my own life has become one of the deepest threads of my work.
(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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