Get to Know Me

I am a 69 year young Euro-american woman, originally trained as a respiratory therapist in the western medical system. I grew up in a trauma laden family, in a culture of competition, comparison, judgment, blame and shame. Greed and power- over"seemed to be the pervading energies at home, school, government and commerce.

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I was raised Catholic. Violent communication was the norm, at home, in church and in school; perfectionism, judgment, blame, fear, shame and physical/mental/emotional punishment held me in place. The focus was primarily on what was going wrong; what’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with you?

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My life became a quest to fix myself. I found a counselor and entered the world of western psychology. I also studied Psychology in undergraduate and post graduate work.

 

In 2011 I quit my masters program, realizing I had to memorize the DSMV-5 which translates human tendencies into diagnostic labels and encourages pharmaceutical intervention. One thing I did know by then was that psychiatric drugs did not heal the root of my pain. All dis-ease starts on the spiritual level.

 

By then I had studied Reiki energy healing for 2 years. I knew there was another way not seen in western medicine, energy work. I left Mount Mary Community Counseling program and enrolled in the Wisdom of Life Coaching School.

 

One year later I moved from the city of over one million where I grew up and landed in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. Here in this beautiful place the Spirit of the Earth reached into my heart and turned my world right-side-up. I found myself in a green forest of 150 acres adjacent to the Kickapoo Valley Reserve (3600 acres of Ho Chunk land). 

 

In this sacred place Spirit held me, taught and gave me vision, touched and sang to me, attuned my body and spirit to the Web of Life, all its inhabitants seemed to welcome me with open arms. Gifts of feathers and flowers, medicinals and visitations came from the Land and the Ancestors. I swam in that lovely awakening for almost 2 months, in the spring of 2012.

 

At first this powerful experience made me wonder if I was going crazy, but a wise and gracious shaman told me this was a journey of a lifetime, and I believed him. He worked with me, helping me to retrieve and integrate pieces of my soul and gratefully he became my teacher. Teachers do show up when you are ready :-) 

 

What I have to share is my path reconnecting to my own soul and the earth in and outside of me. Reconnecting to the rocks, my bones and the air my breath, honoring the water, the Life that flows through me. Fanning the flames of my passion to be everyday more real, more human, more solid and more loving. To reconnect with loving ancestors waiting to share and cheering us on. To listen to the future ones and their wisdom and the gratitude they hold for the work we are now doing to shift the energy within ourSelves, our lineages and our world.