This isn't your typical About page. It's the story of how I came to this work, why I created Sanctuary of Stones and Archetypal Stone Medicine, and why I work at the deepest level of human experience.

There is a particular kind of unhappiness that is difficult to explain to people who have never felt it. It's not the unhappiness of a life that has fallen apart. It's the unhappiness of a life that looks fine from the outside but feels hollow from the inside.

No matter how much effort or intelligence you bring to the problem, the feeling doesn't go away. This is because the problem doesn't reside at the level of logical thinking. It is a soul problem that must be dealt with at the deepest level of being.

I know this from experience.

So, get comfortable and settle in. Perhaps there will be aspects of my story that you can relate to, even if only on an archetypal level.

 

The Long Way Around

I spent my late teens and almost my entire twenties struggling with a severe alcohol addiction that nearly killed me. I don't say that for effect. I mean it literally: withdrawal-induced seizures, emergency room visits, years of progressive dissolution that took everything I thought I was and left me with very little in the end.

At 28, during my first Saturn Return, I finally got sober for good. I didn't know at the time what a Saturn Return was or what it meant that the cosmos had chosen that particular window of time to force a reckoning upon me. But now I know why.

Once I got sober, something in me that had been buried under years of chaos began to bubble to the surface. I went back to school and earned a BA in Journalism and Human Rights Studies while working two jobs. I did a study abroad in Rwanda during the 20th anniversary of the genocide, studying peacebuilding, post-genocide restoration, and collective trauma.

After that, I earned an MA in International Affairs: Conflict and Security from The New School in New York City. I thought I was going to be a conflict photojournalist. Then I got pregnant with my first daughter, then my second. And the trajectory I had been building toward shifted in a way I didn't choose and couldn't have predicted.

The Synchronicity That Changed Everything

My oldest daughter was an unplanned but deeply welcomed pregnancy, and she was born nearly four weeks early — on October 16th. The exact date of my four-year sobriety anniversary and reunification with her father, Taylor. The synchronicity was so incredibly profound - the same date, four years apart. It was a death, a birth, a reconnection, and a rebirth... all on October 16th.

That synchronicity blew my world wide open. It sent me on a search that hasn't stopped since. I began studying synchronicity seriously, which led me to the work of Carl Jung, who is responsible for the theory of synchronicity. I began studying astrology as a psychospiritual diagnostic tool.

Jung called astrology synchronicity on a mass scale — the natal chart is a map of the meaningful coincidence between the moment of a soul's arrival and the precise configuration of the cosmos at that moment.

I analyzed the synchronistic dates in my own natal chart. I studied Jungian depth psychology, Stanislav Grof's transpersonal psychology, the Western esoteric traditions, philosophy, consciousness, ancient and modern cosmologies. I went deep into my research and didn't come back up until I had a framework that could hold what I had experienced. That framework became the foundation of everything I now do.

The Hollow Years and What Was Stirring

While all of this inner work was unfolding, my professional life was a different story. I had built a small marketing company, and I was good at it technically but completely wrong for it at the soul level. Because of this misalignment, I burnt out fast and shut it down.

I was living a double life. I built professional identities that looked credible from the outside but felt like wearing someone else's clothes from the inside. I was living life the way I thought I should based on external pressures, all while my soul was screaming to be heard. 

When one's soul is not full expressed, nothing else works the way it should.

What My Natal Chart Revealed

The shift came when I learned to read my natal chart as more than just a personality profile and instead as a map of my soul's journey in this lifetime. I began utilizing advanced techniques that go beyond sun signs and surface-level interpretations to the deeper cosmological underpinnings of a human life.

What I found was unambiguous. My vocation - the work I came here to do in the world - is written in my chart with a consistency that, once I learned to read it properly, left no room for interpretation.

Stones sit at the center of all of it, where Earth and cosmos meet, where matter and meaning are not separate things. Every thread in my natal chart leads to the same place. My work with stones is not a career choice I made completely consciously. This is the direction my soul was leading me in, and it became glaringly obvious in my chart.

Purpose and vocation, for me, are two distinct spirals that are intertwined but separate, operating simultaneously in one's life.

How Sanctuary of Stones Came to Be

Sanctuary of Stones began as Sanctuary Vibrational Jewelry selling handcrafted pieces using natural stones as energetic talismans. But as I deepened into the research, engaged in more trainings, the work naturally expanded and I began selling loose gemstones and mineral specimens. I grew an affinity for rare-combination stones and their profoundly unique vibrational signatures. So, while I was building my own private collection I began selling them to my customers too and received affirming feedback about their energy.

As my interest in stones grew, I pursued certification in Colored Stones through the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). I needed to understand the crystallography, the chemistry, and the physical structure of stones at the scientific level in order to find the connections between what ancient traditions had known for millennia and what modern mineralogy and physics could confirm.

Alongside my work with stones, I deepened my training in BioGeometry and vibrational radiesthesia, the science of detecting and modulating subtle energy fields. I trained as a Daoist Stone Medicine practitioner, learning to work with stones on the meridian system. I trained in the stone medicine ways of indigenous clans of North America and elsewhere.

Being immersed in research on bioenergetics, subtle energy detection and measurement, ancient Egyptian temple science, and other vibrational sciences I was naturally led to the world of sound with a particular interest in crystal singing bowls. I spent over two years training as a sacred sound healer where I learned all about how sound heals every aspect of our being, and how stones can used with sound for more profound healing. I then trained in psychoacoustic sound engineering where I learned to create holotropic soundscapes with binaural beats to open the door to the transcendent realms and connect with the Divine as well as the stones I was working with.

All of this was in service to one question: what is the most precise, rigorous, and complete method for helping a person understand what their soul is here for, and for clearing the obstacles standing between that understanding and a life that is lived from it. From this, the Archetypal Stone Medicine method was born.

Where I Am Now

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate completing my doctoral research at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where my dissertation is entitled The Individuating Cosmos: Toward A Jungian Fractal Cosmology of Synchronicity, Archetypal Time, and Deep Meaning.

This research is not separate from the client or teaching work that I do. It is the theoretical and philosophical foundation of it. Every session I conduct, every chart I read, every stone prescription and talisman I craft is informed by this framework.

I am not here to tell you what you want to hear. I am here to show you what your chart, your biofield, and your soul have been trying to tell you all along.

As a psychonaut, energy medicine practitioner, astrologer, and psychocosmologist, I give you the precise, research-backed tools to live from your own chart and soul mission. That is the work and besides being a mother and partner, it is the work I have come here to carry out.