I'm a mom, healer, deep diver, over-thinker, and writer getting back into practice of creating with small, barnacle-like children afoot.
Throughout my life, I've written and created for my own healing, which lead me to complete my Master's degree in Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. For many years, I worked as a transpersonal expressive arts therapist, hypnotherapist and shamanic counselor. I even created an adaptive expressive writing program for people affected by acquired brain injury called The Rediscovery Project.
After my first child was born, I experienced an intense bout of postpartum depression that took me two years and some change to work through. During that time, I lost touch with my bandwidth to write longer works. Micro-journaling - getting anything, even a word or two - out onto the page became my lifeline. I purchased a plain, spiral-bound notebook and named her "The Dark Mother Chronicles". I put ALL of it in that journal - and it got me through.
I'm now pregnant with my second child and feel the call to dive back into the world of writing and creating - in a way that's manageable and sustainable while raising young ones. In addition to writing for healing and self-care, I'm excited to take a stab at fiction and have an initiatory novel warming on the backburner. I love urban fantasy, dystopian, sci-fi, magical realism - anything that feeds my love of all that is weird, mysterious and ineffable.
In addition to being a newbie fiction writer, I'm enamored with the art and craft of collage and write poetry and personal essays that appear on Medium.com. I serve on the Board of Directors for The Institute for Poetic Medicine.
I'm in the early, early stages of creating something to share with you. Work. In. Progress. In the meantime, please check out my writing.
Throughout my life, I've written and created for my own healing, which lead me to complete my Master's degree in Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. For many years, I worked as a transpersonal expressive arts therapist, hypnotherapist and shamanic counselor. I even created an adaptive expressive writing program for people affected by acquired brain injury called The Rediscovery Project.
After my first child was born, I experienced an intense bout of postpartum depression that took me two years and some change to work through. During that time, I lost touch with my bandwidth to write longer works. Micro-journaling - getting anything, even a word or two - out onto the page became my lifeline. I purchased a plain, spiral-bound notebook and named her "The Dark Mother Chronicles". I put ALL of it in that journal - and it got me through.
I'm now pregnant with my second child and feel the call to dive back into the world of writing and creating - in a way that's manageable and sustainable while raising young ones. In addition to writing for healing and self-care, I'm excited to take a stab at fiction and have an initiatory novel warming on the backburner. I love urban fantasy, dystopian, sci-fi, magical realism - anything that feeds my love of all that is weird, mysterious and ineffable.
In addition to being a newbie fiction writer, I'm enamored with the art and craft of collage and write poetry and personal essays that appear on Medium.com. I serve on the Board of Directors for The Institute for Poetic Medicine.
I'm in the early, early stages of creating something to share with you. Work. In. Progress. In the meantime, please check out my writing.