I started Rebel Heart Essence because I believe we need to perceive and embody the fullness of Self if we’re going to shift our collective consciousness. The harmful actions we take when we act from identification with our wounds quite literally keep us, as a human community, sick. We hurt the earth. We hurt each other. I believe that bringing the light of conscious awareness to all that we do, and all that we are, is the single most generous and radical gift we can offer.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to, and feel in their bones: oh, here is a person, just like me. And if she found a way to know the truth of her nondual nature, so can I. She’s not a guru, she’s not sitting on a mountaintop, she maybe hasn’t even brushed her hair today (or let’s be honest, this week). But she’s not still seeking, feeling like there’s something she lacks. AND she’s not pretending everything is easy, and all figured out. She did the work, found the end of the work, and she found a way of living from the true Self after getting to the end of the work.

Though averse to identity boxes, I can share that in my role as a nerdy psychotherapist, I show people how to process deep trauma, how to see where their thoughts have gotten distorted, and how to bring self-compassion to embody emotions. In my role as a teacher, I help people find their way back to themSelves. 

I arrived at what my work looks like now by undergoing psychotherapeutic training in many modalities.  In my personal process, I practiced Vipassana for about 15 years before training in shamanism and Reiki. In the past 7 years,  Siddhis, or spiritual gifts, gave me the ability to heal in ways that previously seemed like science fiction. Experiences with no rational explanation, like communing with Archangels on a mountaintop five minutes from my house,  set off on a journey of radical transformation. Astonishing things started to happen, such as clients who’d never meditated going into deep states of concentration (known as Samadhi) or

While these experiences felt, quite frankly, impossible to the conscious mind and ego, they also led to authentic and profound experiences of healing beyond anything I’d known while coloring within the lines of evidence-based practice.

As a natural skeptic (and a person temperamentally aversive to any system that asked me to “believe”), I realized that  as soon as I was able to let go of the need to label what I do and how I do it, life became limitless.  I’ve been awed and humbled to see what flows through me. Ultimately, the one path I orient to is the path of the heart. I invite you to walk this path with me.