My Journey

I came into this life sensitive, empathic, and finely tuned to the world around me, the kind of child who absorbs everything: the moods of the people in the room, the chemistry of the food on the plate, the unspoken density of what is left unsaid. As a child I was somewhat rebellious, and isolated, growing up in the canyons of Southern California. On a much deeper level I was quietly waging a war with my own body that included years of disordered eating. Only much later did I come to suspect it was more than illness, a kind of survival intelligence operating through a destructive mechanism, my young body’s instinct to reject the physical and emotional toxicity of my environment. I name this because I know I am not alone in it.

But somewhere in me, even then, was an instinct. I took my first job at one of the original health food stores in Santa Monica at fourteen, and the search began, for what would actually heal the body, the emotions, and the soul I had only just begun to recognize. I earned a Bachelor of Science from UC Irvine, then trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, then earned my certification as a clinical nutritionist. That early training was not enough. Treating symptoms with sophisticated supplements was still only addressing symptoms rather than finding the deeper root cause underneath. The turning point came when I encountered Autonomic Response Testing through Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt’s lineage, and discovered that the body, asked the right way, will tell you exactly what it needs, and in what order. I went deep. I detoxed years of accumulated heavy metals from my own system, removed amalgams (before there were proper protocols), traveled to the Paracelsus clinic in Switzerland, studied biological dentistry, and learned to read the patterns of polarity reversal, and the importance of opening blocked drainage or detox pathways that almost no one was talking about at the time.

Around the same period, I encountered the Buddhadharma, and began receiving teachings and practicing the Tibetan Vajrayāna under a great master of the Nyingma lineage. This became the contemplative ground that everything else now grows from. I raised my children in a Dharma center. I treated clients around the world remotely, often before they walked in the door, and learned to trust the body’s intelligence completely. My deepest shadow work didn’t begin until my late forties, supported by years of plant medicine ceremonies, the ground of Buddhist mind training, and the quiet permission of a stable life. I have personally healed things I once believed I would carry forever, chronic pain, deep emotional patterns, and inherited stories I now know were never mine to carry. At the level of the body, decades of consistent detoxification and frequency work have allowed me to age in a way that feels completely revolutionary. Most importantly, at the level of the heart of self-love and self- empowerment, I have come home to myself in ways my younger self could not have imagined.

What I most want people to know is this: anything can heal when the body is met at the level where information actually lives. Your body has not given up on you. The blueprint of wholeness within you has not gone anywhere. I am still in this work myself, every day, in my own body, and the joy of being able to walk alongside others as they return to themselves is the heart of what I now offer.