My healing story begins with a depression diagnosis at the age of 15. I was medicated and expected to be on it for the rest of my life. That I needed it to feel 'normal.' I believed the medication would fix what felt broken inside. By 25, I was burnt out and self-medicating while living in New York and working in the film & television industry. I decided it was time to leave the city and get more support. I started receiving craniosacral bodywork, therapy & a regular yoga practice. I started to get into my body, I started to envision a life without medication 10 years after my diagnosis. I started exploring what healing felt like. What it looked like for me.

At 27, I moved to Oakland, CA and immersed myself in the world of healing, pursuing a Masters degree in Integrative Health Studies. This is when my healing journey deepened in a way I never imagined. This is when I was introduced to ancestral healing work by Atava Garcia Swiecicki and Kimmy Johnson. This is when I received a limpia by Angela Angel. Both of which changed my life. With the support of my ancestors, teachers, therapist, and healers, I stopped taking antidepressants nearly 13 years after I was first diagnosed and medicated.

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My ancestors led the way and I listened. I followed. I prayed. My ancestors were there when I uncovered sexual abuse from my childhood. Memories, pain, heartbreak that my body protected me from for much of my life. I began to study Usui Reiki with Angela Omulepu, to understand the power of energy healing. I found pure joy through movement at Hipline. I studied Guided Imagery with Leslie Davenport and was opened to the power of the unconscious. I was led to deepen into ancestral work with Kimmy Johnson. Kimmy & my ancestors guided me out of the darkness I found myself in after learning of the abuse. I dreamt of herbal medicine and I started working at Ancestral Apothecary with my teacher Atava. I was guided to deepen into community, to build a relationship with the natural world, and the practices of my ancestors. I began to feel more connected with myself than ever before. More in touch with and present to the full experience of life, including all of the ups, downs, and in-betweens. 

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As I deepened into my personal and generational healing practice, I started to look more honestly at my identity as a white-bodied person. I started to inquire about the relationship among personal, generational, community, and collective healing. I began to explore the legacy of white-bodied supremacy and settler colonialism and how they live in me and my lineage. I found a thoughtful community of antiracist white people in an accountability group led by Aryeh Shell & Jean Milam with Thrive East Bay. I learned history that I was never taught in my majority-white schools. I started to understand how enslavement, genocide, and colonization are a part of my story, as well as the collective story. Swaths of history that were kept silent, deep festering wounds that were avoided for generations. I started to understand that there is no personal healing without generational healing and no generational healing without collective healing. I made a choice: that I will do everything in my power to break the cycles of harm, to say it ends with me. 

So here I am. An ever-evolving person committed to the path of personal, generational, and collective healing. Rooted in the ancestral medicine and wisdom of my lineage. Rooted in the beauty and magic of plants and the natural world. Continuing the practice of untangling myself from the webs of white-bodied supremacy, settler colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism. Continuing to give myself grace as I learn more and more about myself. Continuing to learn how to navigate the world as someone who feels things deeply. Continuing on the many spirals of the healing path I find myself on and honored to support others on their healing journeys.