✨ Hello fellow Soul Seeker!
If you are looking for a safe place to have connective, thoughtful conversations about what it means to live an authentic soul-led life while creating the better world our hearts know is possible, then WELCOME! 💖
If you are ready for reflective stories about why “business as usual” isn’t working and are seeking the wisdom and kinship of nature and community, you are in the right place! 🌿
🌎 Why “Love Notes”?
Whenever life gets hard, I have always found comfort in Mama Earth. It is now apparently a “thing” and can be called nature reconnection, forest bathing, or rewilding. It took years of studying herbalism, indigenous wisdom, and nature reconnection practices for me to realize being in relationship with nature is a deep, innate skill - one that ALL HUMANS are wired for to engage our spiritual connection and intuitive guidance.
It is our birthright to be in kinship and connection to the spirit of the Earth, our very life support system. We have forgotten how essential it is to our nervous system and our souls, we deeply crave this type of nourishing, energetic spiritual and physical connection.
From a shamanic and indigenous perspective, the living land (Mama Earth) is always speaking to us in our waking life, and our dreams. When we are consciously connected to Spirit, we’ll hear her speaking to us, guiding and supporting us on our journey in this life.
I have collected sea shells since I was little, and whenever I find particularly lovely ones, I call them Love Notes from Mother Ocean. Her way of reminding me I’m on my path, everything will be ok, and how abundant life truly is.
Who am I to host these conversations about finding the soul medicine in the mess of life?
My lived experience has been a journey of coming home to myself, in body, mind, heart/soul, and Spirit. Mother Earth has been a constant source of wisdom, safety, and love through all the bumps and bruises. She has taught me how to trust, love, and know more than all my years in academia ever could scratch the surface of.
I help heart-driven men and women design lives and work that honor their soul’s true calling, igniting them as inspired cultural change-makers.
I am a:
🦋 Nature Connection Mentor
🌿 Holistic wellness and lifestyle design guide (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Herbalism)
🌙 Seasonal astrology teacher
🌎 Devoted student of Mother Nature (aka my Dirt Church)
🎨 Holistic Integrative Creative Arts Therapy practitioner
💝 My own journey with healing my depression, burnout, and my gut issues taught me a deep reverence for the power of holistically approaching life and trusting our intuitive sense of the world.
💼 For 20 years I worked in environmental advocacy, academia, federal government (park ranger), science communication, and as a solopreneur policy consultant… so I have a wide range of experience that has taught me what it takes to create lasting change in the world.
I am also a Mama of two sassy old souls and four kitty ninjas, and have been described as a “Force of Nature”. 🌀
If my words have impacted your life in a meaningful way, I invite you to consider subscribing.
You can also buy me a cup of tea to show your appreciation. 🍵 😉
✨I currently share my gifts as a Holistic Guide, Seasonal Astrology teacher, and intuitive energy healer at my private practice, The Alkhemaerie.
🌎 My work is deep, yet light in connecting you to the truth of your heart and Soul - I will hold you compassionately and fiercely in a way that feels deeply grounded so you feel safe enough to be authentically seen and self aware, while also laughing about it.
🌱 I eat the “weeds” and make medicine from my own yard, I find The Divine in the song of the ocean 🌊, I learned to meditate by sitting with a favorite Live Oak tree🌳, and dug into a shit-ton of inner work by having bright children and seeing what they mirrored back to me of my own subconscious behavior 😬.
I love Florida’s wild places, summer thunderstorms, watching the moon and stars, talking to plants and animals, camping, and Unschooling my kids to be at home with Mama Earth.
We are currently building a new relationship with the Land in the mountains of Western North Carolina, our new home (after being a visitor for 30 years). I am delighting in getting to know the Land in all its faces and seasons.
In what feels like another life, I was a National Park Ranger in South Florida driving a boat, SCUBA diving, and studying the intersection of people and the nearshore coral reefs and estuarine ecosystems while educating the public on cool science and how to love the Earth a bit more gently.
My decades studying and working in marine science on the ground and environmental advocacy on Capitol Hill taught me a deep respect for integrity and discernment in how information is presented. I have also had my work published in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, an educational TV series, and radio programs.
My years as a mother, healer, urban permaculture homesteader, and dreamer have given me the gift of knowing there is a balanced, authentic way for us to live in this world - one that feels nourishing to our body, mind, and spirits - AND for the Earth. If we allow her to guide us, she’ll happily show us the way.
So, that’s all to explain why I am so motivated to create a space for inspiring conversations about shifting the paradigm we are all struggling to escape.
Let’s choose to live a life centered around Being in Right Relationship (to our heart & Soul, each other, the land and wildlife, and the Divine) - and how we translate our ideals to take steps to embodying it everyday.
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Because supporting creators and safe spaces for conversation and learning is the new way of the new world we are building (kinda like flying a plane while building it at the same time). A world where we have a right to truth, freedom to decide, and no one obscuring or skewing our perception of reality for their own profit (ahem, I’m looking at you mainstream media and social media).
We need to be able to have deep, yet light conversations about new ways to live, love, and work in this world. I value what I offer you and I value what you will be coming to contribute here.
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