I grew up with a lot of trauma and it showed through a lifetime of emotional suffering. Both of my parents were alcoholics. My mother left our family when I was eleven. We were not a close family and we all went our own ways. I learned that my mother died six years after she left and my father died soon after her. I spent a lot of time alone, but found connection with a universal presence and never felt alone.

I fought hard to figure life out and suffered emotionally. I lacked sound adult guidance and lived confused, as to which direction to go. I attracted people to my life that would be just what I needed to keep me in a static state of suffering. I would repeat the same story over and over and wondered why life was so hard.

I took refuge in school and felt proud of my straight A’s that I would earn. I had big plans for what I wanted to be when I got older, but I struggled to realize my education goals, simply because I didn’t know how. I would spin the problem in my head and come up with no solutions. I would see others going to college and would think it was for those who had a lot of money or family that was together. It is interesting how we think when we are young and what we believe to be true as seen through our perception of emotional pain.

In my twenties I went to acupuncture school. I became a licensed and nationally board certified acupuncturist and a registered herbalist with the well-regarded professional organization, The American Herbalist Guild. I had a very unique training that sets me apart from many acupuncturists. I was trained in Western herbal medicine, essential oils and flower essences. I learned how to make my own medicine using the plants that grow around us. There was a traditional, as well as a psycho-spiritual component to my training that made it a true mind, body, and spirit approach to learning.

Through the years, I struggled to work as an acupuncturist. I later learned that my struggle was with myself. I did not align what I was doing with working one-on-one with others, because of my past trauma and emotional safety issues. I chose to go back to college to get an in depth biology degree with hope to do research on natural approaches to healing, but my studies were cut short.

I was met with a lot of stress and emotional suffering through the years of my studies. My marriage ended, I struggled with my health, I literally became homeless, and I temporarily lost my vision. I was unable to finish my degree and actually see it as a blessing now to not have been caught in the conventional education conditioning. I am grateful for the education that I received that allows me to read, understand, and write scientific papers, but I maintained my autonomy as to see the truth in science, rather than following the mainstream narrative. I feel that I was protected from early on in life to not be programed into one way of thinking. I discern for myself what is truth and I stand true to that knowing, but always with an open mind for change.

A large focus of my work is on emotional healing. I have personally gone through many traumatic experiences in my life that gives me a perspective to share beyond what can be taught in conventional education systems. I am now dedicated to helping others that are going through emotionally challenging times with the many teachings that I have to offer. My aim is to help others heal their emotions, health, and lives.

I found peace in writing and will be sharing my writing in books, eBooks, programs and other writing posts to convey truth about our emotions and health. My book, Emotional Memory: Exploring How Our Emotions Impact Our Health is available now wherever you buy books. My eBook, Opening to Truth is available for download for free on this website. My aim is to bring to light the common behaviors that we all can relate to in order to open us to truth. It is up to each of us to discern for ourselves where healing is needed and then to make the needed changes. Our personal healing is shared with the entire collective. I have changed my story from one of emotional suffering to peace and I know that you can as well.

I will be sharing herbal education with hope that we can all be autonomous in taking care of our health without having to submit to major drugs and surgeries for minor symptoms. We are amazing beings with the innate ability to heal. Natural medicine has healed many people through the ages and has become even more powerful with the validation of time, as well as in scientific studies.

I will also be sharing my love for gardening and how to grow your own food and medicine. I will be teaching how to bring your harvest to your table for nourishment, but also to make what you have grown into natural medicines to treat minor symptoms and illnesses.

I am excited to share all the knowledge that I have to offer with you. Stay tuned for the latest.