I struggled with serious depression in High School, I was suffering from a chemical imbalance but also had experienced a lot trauma through sexual assault and physical/emotional abuse. I had a lot of big feelings at a young age and no way to process them. I know now that emotion is energy in motion and when we don’t let emotions move through our body they get stuck and it results in feeling heavy, overwhelmed and depressed.

I spent years in therapy and seeking all kinds of information on how I could alchemize my pain and past traumas into something more beautiful. Somewhere along the way I stumbled into the idea of Dharma and Karma. The very short explanation of this is,  if you can transcend that which has been most challenging for you it will be your gift to the world. Something inside of me clicked and I knew then that it was my purpose to understand how to turn trauma into transformation and then share this path with others. At the root of this, it’s alchemy. Alchemy used to be about transforming lead into gold, but what if modern day alchemy is about mutating our suffering into our gift we can offer forth to create a world we want to see?

I felt this purpose deep in my soul, a sacred initiation to who I was meant to be. So much of this process towards who I am today has been about peeling back the layers of how my trauma expressed, uptight, rigidity and honestly a little bitchy. I fell in love with the process of healing because with each day, month or year I felt more like my true authentic self. 

I am still healing. I like to think of myself as a student of life, constantly learning, growing and evolving. My true gift isn’t in being some ‘healed person’ but instead in holding the container to ask you questions to help facilitate your alchemized process of turning big wounds into big offerings of yourself to the world.