I went to social work school when I was 18 years old as a consumer survivor. I had been inside of the social service system as part of my growing up, and I wanted to help other people like me. I left social work school and took one thing to heart – don’t do the work with people if you are going to use the people to do the work inside of yourself.
As a result, I put myself in positions where I would get to grow my professional skills while not having other people’s emotional well being be dependent on me. I spent some years working in health care as an emergency services coordinator. My crisis management and people management skills got better every year, but my mental and physical health deteriorated. I was drawn to health and healing through my 20s. My special interests in my childhood were always about mythology, fairies, astrology – I was drawn to energy. I spent most of my 20s learning about chakras, energy medicine, different religions and philosophies. In my personal life – I was miserable to myself and a wretch to be around. It would take me years of being gaslit by medical doctors to understand how profound my own hormonal imbalances were and several more years of unpacking that to get a grasp on my own mental health. It led me to study and learn what I could about how trauma impacts the body physically. It also led me to connect with a mentor that I will be grateful for everyday. Having someone listen to me and hear me at a time where I was being told my experiences weren’t valid changed me for the better.
I realized early into working that as drawn as I was to work that would help spur social change, that my niche, was going to be with individual bodies and souls. I knew I would never be happy in traditional social work roles because creating healthy lives means making changes on all levels – body, mind, soul, and community.
My own early trauma brought me to the helping field in my youth. Not acknowledging the extent of it destroyed most of my 20s. Getting to the bottom of it and healing my body has consumed my 30s. It’s also brought me purpose and an appreciation that if some of the knowledge my journey and studies has brought me helps other people find their peace sooner, I’m honoured to be a part of your journey.
My areas of interest are: health coaching (general health, healthy for fertility, and health maintenance for chronic illness warriors); intergenerational cycle breaking; trauma recovery; neurodivergence; body consciousness/awareness (grounding); fertility (trauma specific); food addiction; and death and dying.
I am a general holistic health practitioner. I have been studying and practicing yoga (20 years) and teaching yoga philosophy and poses to trauma clients for the last 10. I am in the process of earning my yoga 200 training certificate so that I can teach classes more officially. My practice is reiki focused – whether we are talking or on the table, reiki has been influencing my worldview for decades and is the philosophy I practice from. My studies with a mentor have led me to learn a health reading practice that draws heavily from Traditional Chinese Medicine and meridian theory. I recognized early in building my practice how much information I read from people’s bodies as an intuitive person. It took a major health crisis for me to start supplementing my body internally, and is my current area of focus. Connecting people with more natural remedies is slowly becoming a passion of mine.
