I am a non-binary, queer, neurodivergent, naturally systems-thinking, non-monogamous human living in Southeast Portland, Oregon. I have an academic background in law, and worked as an animal rights lawyer for several years, before finding my true vocation and calling in catalyzing and supporting others on their unique journeys to integrating personal healing and evolution.
I have been consciously engaged in my own journey of awakening and evolution since about 2015, when I experienced a shift first in my relationship with psychedelic mushrooms. Where I had been a recreational user, I instead developed a deep relationship of spiritual healing and growth, with the mushroom spirit as my guide. The turning point was a shift in intention. I asked the mushrooms to teach me, and they responded to my request.
My energetic guides, plant medicine guides, and several human mentors I would meet along the way, taught me about the nature of reality, my own nature, and my place within it all. My relationship with mind-altering substances systemically changed, as I released my addictive patterning. I awakened to my energetic guidance system and became deeply and passionately connected to my higher self and my energetic guides. I learned to meditate and to do breathwork, as well as how to do both personal healing and refinement work. I started journaling, a practice which, along with meditation, is now daily ritual. I started painting, a way to express the inexpressible. I integrated working out into my life. I began to develop symbolic awareness and began doing dreamwork, in addition to my meditation. I began to take notice of synchronicity. I found a sense of inner peace, deep compassion, and passionate love of self and other.
I entered visionary states and began to see bigger and bigger pictures, as well as my part within the universe. I experienced personal transformation well beyond what I had previously thought possible. I found hope. During shifting my relationship with mind-altering substances, I stopped smoking cigarettes, stopped consuming alcohol, and moved from being a daily (and often all day) weed smoker to developing a truly entheogenic relationship with cannabis, like my relationship with psychedelic mushrooms. I began to experience oneness and non-ordinary states of consciousness within my daily life. I became awakened to the universal flow of energy within me – within everything. And the process is ongoing: I am ever growing, learning, and expanding.
I discovered in reiki a name for this very energy, as well as a framework within which to work. I learned traditional Japanese Reiki up to the practitioner level, to add some common language to my intuitive energy work, and to grow what I was already doing and feeling in my body. Reiki is now a daily practice for me, along with my journaling and meditation. I completed a trauma-informed psychedelic integration coaching certificate in February of 2023, to further my education and understanding of integration, beyond my extensive personal experience and study to be of greater service. I worked with a shamanic plant medicine church for a couple of years in service cofacilitating weekend group ceremonial containers and offering preparation and integration support. I work on a contract basis with Gather Well, a psychedelic education organization in California, offering preparation and integration support to participants in their Groundwork program, which includes two mushroom ceremonies.
I weave together what I have learned from my own energetic guidance system and relationships with non-ordinary consciousness and psychedelic and entheogenic medicines with language and teachings from various systems of metaphysics, systems science, psychology, shamanic practice, internal family systems, end more.
My Core Beliefs and Guideposts for my Business
Community business model: for profit, but not: heart centered and service-oriented, with any excess profit fed back directly into the community
Evolutionary purpose: Adaptation over time, role of service, towards symbiosis, new paradigm
Complex adaptive systems approach: Looking for patterns, feedback loops, flow of information
Open: Sharing financial and other business details freely, honesty and ethics in all matters
Leadership by Example: Living process, commitment to daily personal practice, from the heart
Balance in Motion: moving forward at a steady pace, with personal care, reflection, and action
