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I have long craved to create a single space from which to share the personal, professional and creative realms that animate my wholeness. I have also become clear that the externalizing suck of social media is antithetical to what nourishes and inspires.

In some ways, this digital garden is an assignment to my Self; my own way to practice the discipline of writing, tending and creating space on behalf of this pull towards integration.

Professionally I draw from my 8 year study and practice of Chinese medicine followed by 14 years of birth work - aka night work, death work, grief work, magic - revealing the overlay between trauma, the body and the vagal language of the nervous system. This led to my training and now practice of Hakomi: a mindfulness based somatic psychotherapy that centers the felt experience of the body as a potent guide towards self-discovery. Drawing from all of these practices, I facilitate individual and small group retreats on Whidbey Island.

Creatively, I publish a yearly lunar diary that begins each month with the dark moon, reclaiming our experience of Time as cyclical, seasonal and lunar. Nothing embodies the constancy of change quite like the moon, a daily invitation to look up and notice what moves and shifts in our own lives.

And personally, I live inside the daily landscape of marriage, motherhood and living with my aging parents while tending 3.5 acres nestled inside a necklace of maple, fir and cedar on the unceded land of the Salish sea.

Threading through all of this is the practice of noticing cycles, lunar and embodied, nature's seasons as an invitation to welcome death and decay not just as inevitable but as essential to life, art and joy; and learning over and over again to turn towards the knowledge that lives in our limbs.