In all of my work, my mission is to engage people in active love practices to interrupt many different manifestations of interpersonal violence.

This purpose-driven work allows me to be an active participant in creating worlds that center care, reciprocity, justice and love.

My values allow me to create supportive spaces where the catalyzing tools of empathy, love & kindness can be practiced.

My work shifts dynamics from siloed individualism toward interconnectedness, resources, support & collective care.

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I have over 30 years experience in a variety of traditional business roles, as a board member, advisory committee member. I am a 2-time entrepreneur.

My writing experiences include conceptualization, creation, developmental editing and copyediting of a vast array of communications & marketing materials (digital and analog).

I’ve long been a community-oriented businessperson and non-digital influencer. My skills include intersectional trauma-informed healing, body based healing, and collective wellness.

For more than 30 years I have passionately engaged with studies of spirituality, meditation and devotion, yoga and breathwork, somatic healing, embodiment, body-based healing, trauma healing, racial justice, social justice, communication skills, conscious language, human potential, self-help and self-improvement, physical wellness, writing, ritual, dance and movement, folklore, symbolism, myth, archetypal wisdom, cooperatives and collectives, environmental healing, queer Femmes, queer communities and personal & collective liberation.

As a disrupter, I have chosen to gain education and training outside of the academy. Alongside my valuable entrepreneur experience, I continue to study somatic and neurophysiologic approaches to address embodied manifestations of oppression, domination, and social traumas. After pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in communication at the University of Minnesota, I opened and operated my first business, a social justice and trauma-informed wellness studio, for 12 years.

Member: LGBTQ+ Editors Association (since 2022)

Member: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (since 2024)

I have an extensive background as a trauma-informed body-based healer, teacher, and facilitator working within social justice and healing justice frameworks.

My skills & superpowers include trauma-informed communication practices, building community, working with conscious & inclusive language, embodiment, teaching self-care and collective care; embodied self-regulation skills & embodied trauma healing practices including somatics, movement, yoga, mindfulness and bodywork.

I am a gender-prismatic (trans-nonbinary) queer Femme who uses they/themme or Mx pronouns. I am a white person of primarily Scottish, Welsh & English ancestry living in the U.S. as a result of white settler colonialism. Though I live with the ongoing health impacts (mental and physical) of adverse childhood experiences and various adult traumas, I am a mostly (temporarily) non-diabled person.

I am living on unceded lands in the upper Midwest, U.S., known as Mni Sota Makoce. This place is still the ancestral and current homeland of Dakota people.

I am in a state of continuous gratitude for those who have shared their teachings, wisdom, skills, knowledge, and magic with me so far. Thank you to those I am learning from - my formal and informal teachers- and all of their teachers! The partial list below includes people who have taught or mentored me directly:

Evolve Benton
BX Barclay
Naomi Cohn
Debra Hennesey
Karen Hering
Kitty Kuluvar
Thea Lee
Tommy Lee Woon
Susan Raffo
Erin Sharkey
Suzanne Sterling
Lovice Weller

This incomplete list includes those whose life work and publications have deeply influenced my heart, thinking, practices, and frameworks:

Jacoby Ballard

adrienne maree brown
Pema Chodron
Eli Clare
Seane Corne
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Lilias Folan
Thich Nhat Hanh
Trisha Hersey
bell hooks
BKS Iyengar

Valarie Kaur
Judith Lasater
Carmen Maria Machado
Ricardo Levins Morales
Chani Nicholas
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha
Sonya Renee Taylor
Bessel van der Kolk