The Journey

It may be that when we no longer know what to do

we have come to our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go

we have come to our real journey. - Wendell Berry

tell me more about the journey

Are you tired of working with your mental health symptoms in the same old way? Of being labeled with diagnoses and told to just take some pills? Are you looking for something more than just symptom relief? 

I invite you to take a different type of journey with me.  A journey of becoming who you truly are.  Your path will be unique to you, but I will guide you along the way with all of the personal experiences and powerful tools I have gathered in my medicine bag.  Our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies are highly intelligent energetic systems that provide us with a wealth of knowledge to lead us to our own healing.  You will learn how to access the wisdom of your own inner healer in your body.  With my guidance, we will explore with loving kindness and curiosity questions such as, What are my symptoms trying to tell me?  What are the barriers that are holding me back from knowing and honoring my true self? What emotions and traumas have I been suppressing that need to be fully felt to be released? Am I living in alignment with my true nature and highest purpose?

I will help you cultivate your own connection to your sacred nature so that you can rewrite the story you have been telling yourself about who you are and what your life is about.

am i ready for the journey?

The journey home to yourself takes an open mind, an open heart, courage, discipline, commitment, and the ability to surrender to and accept your current experiences as a starting point for self-growth.  It is not an easy path, yet the reward is a life of greater authenticity, joy, peace, vitality, and purpose.   Ask yourself if these characteristics describe you?

• I have always searched for a larger meaning to my life, or had a sense that I am here for a purpose, even if I haven’t figured out what that is yet.

• I am open to learning how to access my own inner resources and intuitive forms of guidance.

• I am tired of trying to “fix myself.” I honor that my healing is a sacred process of unconditional love and acceptance.

• I am drawn to using my creativity and imagination to explore the mystery of who I am and the journey itself, knowing that this process will likely open up more questions and possibilities.

• I am someone willing to make changes to my lifestyle, sometimes small ones, and sometimes radical ones, in order to manifest the life I want.  

• I understand that living life in a new way requires an inordinate amount of courage.  This journey will not be easy.  Leaving the comforts and security of the known will often unearth feelings of fear and anxiety, but I don’t want to continue the path I am currently on.

who would not be a good fit for the journey?

Everyone has their own timeline and now might not be the right time for you to take this deeper exploration.  If some of the statements below apply to you, then the type of services I offer may not be the right fit for you.   

• I want a diagnosis to know what is wrong with me.  I want answers.  

• I want medications to get rid of my symptoms.

• I want to feel better right away.  I don’t have time or interest in exploring the deeper meaning of my symptoms or experiencing discomfort while I access forgotten aspects of myself.

• I am more comfortable with a diagnosis-treatment model of care rather than an open and exploratory model of care.  

• I am actively suicidal or experiencing a crisis where I feel like I need acute stabilization.