For two decades I worked in medicine — beginning as a teenager in an urgent care clinic and ending in a classroom training the next generation of paramedics. I learned how to ask the question that mattered in thirty seconds or less. How to read what a body was saying when words weren't enough. How to stay regulated while everything around me was falling apart.
I didn't know I was building the foundation for this work. I just knew the right question, asked at the right moment, could change everything.
I grew up between two worlds — the clinical and the ancestral, the measurable and the sacred. My family's healing traditions taught me that the body already knows. Years of study in neuroscience, kinesiology, and applied polyvagal theory gave me the language for what I'd always understood.
At some point I stopped choosing between them.
The people who find their way here are not broken. They are extraordinarily capable — and exhausted from only ever orienting outward. This work is about finding the thread back to yourself. Learning to trust what your body already knows.
It doesn't fix you. It helps you remember.