I talk a lot about healing on this page and if I am going to be completely authentic about my own healing journey, I need to talk about HSV2 or Genital Herpes. I have been feeling to share about my journey with this virus more openly, and for some reason this seems to be the moment. This is still very scary and vulnerable for me but, I believe it is important to normalize this conversation.

It has taken years of inner-study to begin to recognize myself as a shadow worker.

When my spiritual journey began to ripen, just before I was introduced to master plants at age 26, I remember saying to myself, "I just don't have any darkness to work through in this lifetime".

I now know this to be a truly dangerous thought.

As I journey deeper into the realm of physical, spiritual, and ancestral healing, the mind body connection becomes even more clear. When the mind is disrupted, the body suffers. When the body is disrupted, the mind suffers. This is an understanding that is built-in to ancient Ayurvedic philosophy, but has been lost in the western medical approach of compartmentalizing aspects of human experience. The more conversations I have with friends and clients, the more I can see the necessity of marrying healing physical actions and lifestyle changes with mental reprogramming.