Personal Background

     I grew up wild and free in a blissfully serene and beautifully peaceful part

of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California.
My attraction to the field of healing arts began at age 11 with a deep yearning,

and sense of calling,  to do massage and “hands-on healing” work after I received

my first session with a gifted  body and energy-worker who changed my life forever.

Until 18 when I was finally allowed into massage therapy school I experimented with massage

and healing touch for my grandmother and friends who were willing guinea pigs. Despite being told by multiple adults that I’d waste my intelligence and talent in the pursuit of becoming a massage therapist and healing arts practitioner, I held fast to the vision, the sense of calling,

and ignored the many voices of my youth encouraging me to go in a different direction.

I gained massage therapy and Reiki (Level 3) certification in 2002 at 18 years old, and continued with studying Shiatsu, Lymphatic drainage...and in later years Thai Massage, Foot Reflexology, and Bowen (myofascial) work. Throughout my years of doing massage therapy and bodywork, I developed an insatiable curiosity about the mind-body connection and wanted further education to help the clients who seemed to be suffering more from past trauma or psychological/emotional issues than physical ones alone. I observed more

and more frequently how common it was for clients to experience deep physical release and relief of tension after working on certain areas of the body that had "triggers" of sorts, deeply held tensions or nervousness or "lack of flow" causing an emotional response. By spending extra time on those areas, sending them loving intention, presence, and caring energy, these particular clients would experience relief from previously held pain that had troubled them for a long time. With emotional release came physical release.

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I also noticed this beautiful, relieving phenomenon in my own body with areas I held tension and where I struggled with my own pain and lack of flexibility. I experimented with energy work and conscious relaxing and sending loving energy around sciatic pain I had from 16 years old and was able to completely git rid of it. Stomach aches and headaches I frequently experienced also went away with these simple exercises.

I was naturally fascinated by the mind-body relationship and the reflections between the

emotional/mental and physical health, so I began studying psychology and later somatic psychology,

mind-body therapies, and alternative trauma resolution therapies

wanting to help my clients as much as possible.

I trained in the alternative therapy methods involved in Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy,

Rapid Transformational Therapy & Shadow Parts Integration after these modalities more than anything else personally helped me overcome my own blocks to experiencing greater peace in mind and spirit, personal empowerment, self-acceptance, as well as freedom from a host

of troubling issues in my own body and health.
My intention was to help my clients more but it ultimately led me on a journey

of transforming my own issues (as a “wounded healer”) so I spent a number of years

simply working with myself  before venturing back into trying to help others.
 

The kinds of alternative therapy that I experienced

in Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, Rapid Transformational Therapy,

& Shadow Integration Work shifted numerous areas of my life

from long-standing health issues to a dysregulated nervous system from past trauma,

symptoms of ptsd including panic attacks, frequent sense of threat, shame, and anxiety.

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These modlitiles work by integrating our experiences and all parts of ourselves

while cultivating healthy expression, greater self-connection, self-care,

the ability to set boundaries & use the strength of our voices, while instilling a sense of innately

being “enough” in life, and finding value and fulfillment in our own unique beings.

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They cultivated health and well-being on all levels for me: mental, physical, and spiritual,

which is what I believe makes them so quickly effective and profoundly transformative.

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Prior to finding these forms of alterntive therapy I was experiencing "mystery illnesses" that doctors couldn't put their finger on. I was becoming more discouraged, confused, depressed, and sick the more tests I had

and the more uncertainty there was about what was really wrong with me.

It seemed that the harder I tried to get better and the more I tried to find the answers, the worse I became

until I gave up physical remedies & tried Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy & soon after Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) & Shadow Integration Work which ultimately helped shift deep-seated beliefs and patterns which contributed to my anxiety and stress, poor self-esteem, low life-force and weakened immunity.

Working with my mind, subconscious beliefs & patterns and the parts of myself that I didn’t feel I could

love, value, or accept helped me to heal and transform more rapidly and profoundly than any physical remedies or traditional counseling could. Although I’m sure all efforts contributed to my recovery,

it wasn’t until I experienced these forms of alternative therapy that my varying painful

and stubborn symptoms began to dissolve.
 

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      Thanks to these Alternative Therapies, a Meditation & Mindfulness practice,

 along with my great love of empowering & healing words,

my curiosity about consciousness & the cosmos/universe,

& continual efforts to grow in personal awareness & self-love

I've found incredible freedom & relief from what kept me in suffering, fear,

 unhappiness, disempowerment, toxic & sometimes abusive relationships,

 pain and dis-ease for most of my life.
I was largely able to heal what was preventing me from experiencing greater well-being,
enjoyment of the gift of life, personal freedom, & self-realization by taking responsibility

for my mental, physical, & spiritual health at the deepest levels,

& ultimately coming to peace with myself as I Am.

I believe you can do the same if you’re committed to yourself as well.

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"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person,

but becoming the person you were meant to be,

and already are,

but don’t know how to be."
~Heath L. Buckmaster

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"Don't be satisfied with stories,

how things have gone with others.

Unfold your own myth."

~Rumi