my training

• Non-Violent Communication with Marianne van Dijk of Cup of Empathy, 2025

• Certified Recovery Specialist training through Life Esteem, 2024

• Member of the American Tarot Association. I  adhere to the ATA's code of ethics, which you can access here.  

• Professional Tarot/Divination Master Teacher, World Metaphysical Association, designation awarded in 2020

• Certified Crystal Practitioner, Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, 2013

• Advanced Crystal Master, Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, 2014

• Serve as a Crystal Coach for Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, mentoring and helping students going through the program, 2014-2022.

• Serve as Curriculum Specialist and Head of Student Success for Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, mentoring, helping students, grading final assignments for both ACM and CCP students, answering questions in a live Q&A format for one hour per week, developing quizzes and readings to challenge our students, 2017 to 2022.

• Usui Reiki Master Teacher with a distinguished lineage of the Raku Kei Reiki line through Ishikuro/Robertson line, 2014

• Member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP) and the World Metaphysical Association (WMA).

• Attuned to Transformational Reiki by Bonnie Hassan, 2015, which attunes the Reiki practitioner to a drum to facilitate healing.

• Earth Medicine Practitioner, Level 1, 2015, through Pixie Lighthorse's SouLodgeEarth Medicine School.

• Earth Medicine Practitioner, Level 2, 2017, through Pixie Lighthorse's SouLodge Earth Medicine School.

• Earth Medicine Practitioner, Level 3, 2018, through Pixie Lighthorse’s SouLodge Earth Medicine School.

• Earth Medicine Practitioner, Level 4, 2019, through Pixie Lighthorse’s SouLodge Earth Medicine School.

• Participating in SouLodge since 2012 as well as taken Pixie’s art workshop called Visual Quest.

• Ordained Interfaith Minister through the Esoteric Interfaith Church.

• 13th Octave LaHoChi healing 2013

• Initiated into the Rite of the Womb, the 13th Rite of the Munay Ki.

• Studied with Sage Goddess Athena Perrakis in Magical Sabbatical

• Writer and founder of blog still life with circles 

• In 2010, still life with circles was chosen as one of the top 50 Must-Read Mom Blogs by Parenting Magazine and Blogher.

• Created an on-line arts project called still life 365, which  published a piece of art, music, sculpture, painting, poetry or craft from a grieving parent.

• From 2010 to 2013 served as editor of Glow in the Woods, an on-line hub for literary writing about surviving the death of a baby.  

• In November 2010, an essay I wrote entitled, "Mothering Grief", was published in the book They Were Still Born, which is published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book is available to order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

• A chapbook of my poetry called Of This, We Will Not Speak is available on Amazon or via this website.  

• My poetry and writing is featured in two books released in 2014 including To Linger On Hot Coals, edited by Stephanie Paige Cole and Catherine Bayly and Three Minus One, published by SheWrites Press and edited by Brooke Warner and Sean Hamish.

• Artwork featured in the show five. at Mulberry Art Studios in Lancaster, PA, 2012

• Bachelor of Arts, Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2001

  • University Honors Program Certification.

  • Graduated cum laude with a distinction in major

  • Temple University’s Religion Department Prize for Academic Excellence, May 2001

• Current Studies:

  • Cacao Healing Course with Solveig Barrios through Mayan Wisdom Project 2024

  • The Shaman’s Way of Healing Energy with Alberto Villoldo, online academy 2022

  • Rosemary Gladstar’s The Science + Art of Herbalism, started in 2021

  • Into the Heart: Cacao as Medicine, through Embue Cacao started in 2022

  • Shamanic Life Coach Certification through Transformation Academy started in 2023

  • Life Coach Certification through Transformation Academy started in 2023

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