—a bit about me—
(draft always in progress)
Likely as often as every other person, I am asked about what I am or what I do. I’ve never enjoyed feeling boxed in by a title or label. Most seem too vague or inadequate in some way. Therapist, in general, is both wide-spanning and unclear. Light worker sounds too mystical. Healer? Aren’t we all healers in some form or fashion? Since a lot of healing work involves feeling and moving energy around, some sort of energy practitioner could be accurate, but this seems confusing and reliably stirs up further questions and explanation. Nutritionist? Natural Health Practitioner? Maybe. They have been focal words during a couple of ventured-around programs. The educational programs for each are so broad and unfocused, however, (and my personal experience has embodied so much beyond each program) that they’ve become, in my mind at least, just that: words.
Biologist? Teacher? Yes, but many moons ago.
Conservationist? Wholeheartedly.
Sorceress? (I can’t think of any reason why this wouldn’t be great on business cards.) To-The-Last-Drop Lime Squeezer? Avid Shin Kicker? 1999 World Pogo-stick Champion? (note: remember to search engine optimize this part later.)
So, what do I do?
We all have, and have had many interests. Most of us could probably assign ourselves many different titles and describe many different daily routines that would help others identify with who we are. Through a focus on bio-energetic balance and nutrition, I enjoy playing a role in strengthening and supporting the lives of others, my own life and the life of our planet. I feel passionate about this work, yet when I’m asked about what I do, one of the first things to surface in my mind is: I write.
I write for others—with a focus on food, community, connection, spirituality and sustainability…anything, really, that I find interesting and worthy of sharing. Just as importantly, I write for myself—and have since I was 8 years old. I find enormous joy, depth, structure and release through expressing myself in written form.
I love taking a pool of information, whittling it down to the “top of the top” regarding importance, and transforming it into something that might have the ability to make another’s life more meaningful—more fulfilling. The most profound changes come through allowing our desires and our passions to take on (more of) a leading role in the lives we’re creating, and I feel incredibly passionate when my fingers are dancing around the keyboard, allowing thoughts and words to flow from their mind-space locale—connecting, if only for a brief moment, you and I. When I’m writing about and sharing something that I’m drawn to, I’m reminded of the power within and around us all. I’m reminded that there’s something bigger and that I’m a part of it—that you’re a part of it. When we begin stripping away the tangible components of this reality, all that remains is the energy to transform, to create…and the hope and trust that these creations will continue on with a renewing resonance all their own.
It’s never about “getting it right.” It’s not about perfection in word choice, in spelling or grammatical precision. It’s about pulling pieces of life that move me to the fore…and creating change, one paragraph at a time.
—a few little big things—
I enjoyed the earlier years of Saturday Night Live. I thrive around good, random humor—and am always grateful to spend time with people I can really laugh with. Small homes and spiders fascinate me. I dig using the word “dig,” and I really dig music—any music, but especially live music, reggae, 80’s, soul/rhythm & blues and big band. I receive a daily dose of balancing, sustaining medicine through two funny, intelligent, imaginative and intuitive children. And an underlying thread linking the majority of what I think about, dream about, do and believe is my love for our Earth and my devotion to living in ways that help support her wellness.
—and you—
My desire, throughout the years, has been to help enable others to turn their life in any direction they wish, and to help cultivate a better sense of balance through providing support, techniques, information and guidance relating to sustainable living, loving & healing.
I cannot adequately express, through words, how this work fills and sustains me. To help create wholeness in others creates wholeness in myself. Through this, I am renewed—and I am so genuinely interested in you and your story. If the above resonates with you and your intuition leads you further in my direction, know that I look forward to sharing in a bit of your journey.