I have firsthand experience of the ups and downs of pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, and raising young children. I understand the joys and the sorrows, the love and the pain, the many questions that arise, alll the feelings (the ones we share and the ones we don’t), the myriad of profound transformations of body and spirit, the uncertainty and the immense strength that comes as you begin to find your footing.

Passionate about all things pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting. I’m here to bear witness and hold space for it all, to offer gentle guidance and compassionate reassurance as you navigate this profound transition and learn to trust your intuition. I will help you find answers, approaches, and solutions that are right for you.

Committed to inner work, healing, and growth I am always curious about others’ journeys of self-understanding and fulfilment. I am currently exploring how the creation of a richer and more satisfying life may be cultivated through intentional acts of revillaging, a term described by my mentor, Beth Berry, as, “cultivating connection intentionally, creatively, courageously, and consistently, so that healing, thriving and wellness become possible for ourselves and our families, and so that we might become more powerful and effective as changemakers.”

Simultaneously, inspired by the work of Sharon Blackie, I am also seeking to enrich the everyday by reconnecting with my European indigenous roots and learning more about Celtic beliefs and ways of life (seeing what ways of being and believing resonate with me and what I can learning from their ways of knowing and kinship). Her writing has also illuminated for me how choosing to subscribe to the worldview held by many indigenous cultures of participation mystique* can foster a deep sense of belonging and affirm the underlying unity of the world and our responsibility as stewards of it.

Toko-pa Turner beautifully articulates how so many of us are longing to belong (to revillage) and for connection with the divine when she writes that there is “‘something greater’ which coheres us . . . this world owes itself to the unseen . . . I believe our alienation is the felt negligence of that reciprocity . . . We are the generations who missed receiving the inheritance of knowledge that will bridge us back to belonging. But what’s worse is that, in our amnesia, we often don’t even know what’s missing . . . divorced from myth and the symbolic life, our personal stories cease to have meaning in a larger collective momentum. Also atrophying in this separation, is our ability to imagine, wonder, and envision a way forward.” It’s often in moments of transition (such as becoming a parent) that we have a strong sense that things are not as they should be, as they once were, that we need a village and all the practical and spiritual nourishment it’s structures and rituals provide, but are unsure of how to go about accessing it.

My teacher, Alan Seale, speaks of “the journey of self-understanding and fulfilment . . . what is possible when we let go of what no longer serves us and once and for all embrace our emerging potential.” He says, “our future and the world demand no less.” In my own experience of parenthood I have found that much of his teachings in “transformational presence” - engaging our intuition, claiming our power, practicing collaboration, and choosing wisely for the greater good - is so meaningfully applicable to parenting, revillaging, and what Toko-pa Turner calls “the grand endeavour of Remembership” (learning to be a revillager**, to reconnect with ancestral knowledge, and tend to our ache for the divine that nourished and strengthened the communities of our ancestors).

*Seeing ourselves and the natural realm - objects, creatures, ecosystems - as intimately connected parts of the same living system, and each encounter between us an opportunity to share moments of deep relationship and exchange consciousness.

**Beth Berry defines a revillager as, “Someone dedicated to the dismantling of internalized hyperindividualism, who increasingly seeks to solve problems and increase their quality of life through connection and interdependence.”

Forever a student exploring experiences of pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, the transition from maiden to mother (the transformative process of becoming a mother which anthropologists call “matrescence”), parenthood (raising our children and the never-ending spirit-expanding growth it inherently facilitates), the cycle of birth and rebirth, the epidemic of villagelessness, the process of belonging, and the ways we nurture and sustain our families with meaning (creating and tending to our nests, the beliefs we hold, the traditions we maintain, the rituals we participate in, etc).