I have been off Instagram for a long while. Being unplugged had its amazing benefits for my mind, heart and nervous system. I wanted to share where I have been. I took a long walk…Walking 500 miles across Spain was an epic experience. It awakened in me a new sense of energy and purpose. Please stay tuned for updates on my practice and the focus of my work. In the meantime I hope you enjoy these photos of my Camino.
04/11/2025
I will be off Instagram for the next 2 months because sometimes you just need to go take a long walk, check out and call it self care. I love you!
02/14/2025
Before we can truly love others, we must first nurture the love within ourselves.
In a world that often pushes us to prioritize everyone else's needs, it's essential to pause and focus on our own well-being. Self-love isn't just a buzzword; it's the foundation of healthy relationships and genuine connections. When we honor ourselves, we open the door to understanding and empathy towards others.
Take a moment today to celebrate YOU. Reflect on what makes you unique and worthy of love. Embrace your journey, imperfections and all.
Ready to inspire others by radiating the love you’ve cultivated within? Share your self-love practices in the comments below! Let’s create a beautiful ripple effect together. 💖
02/12/2025
iving with Complex PTSD can feel incredibly challenging, like navigating a minefield. It's important to remember that you're not alone, and help is available. If you or someone you know is struggling with PTSD or C-PTSD, seeking professional support can make a real difference. You can find qualified therapists in your area at
"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." – Glinda the Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz.
Look at you! I am so proud of you! I know what a difficult road this has been and you just keep on keeping on. But what I notice is that the words you use with yourself have become so much softer. Your patience with mistakes is so much more expansive and your ability to forgive is so much stronger. You are willing to begin again over and over and it is such a beautiful thing to witness. You might not know exactly what you came here to be, but oh what a beautiful job of becoming you have done. I love you!
02/04/2025
Preach it Don Miguel Ruiz! I love the first agreement in his book, "The Four Agreements". It is, Be impeccable with your word. He writes that it is as important if not more important to be impeccable with the words you use towards yourself. Often people think about this as the language you use to speak to others. It is. But the real gem of this simple agreement is to be impeccable with the words you speak inward. This is still in my top five books ever. I suggest you give it another read!
01/31/2025
This reminds me of the Poem by Shel Silverstein called "The Invitation"
“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
Come sit with me! I want to hear about the ideas in your head. I want to see you bring them to life! I am here for all of your successes. There is no competition. There is no sense of scarcity. There is room for all of us. It's never too late. Keep creating! That idea didn't work out? Try a different one or a different angle. I have a friend who is an artist. She's an amazing painter. We had a great conversation the other day where she told me about an idea she had for a new series of paintings, but that there was another painter who just did a similar series of paintings. So she was worried that she was too late, that the idea was already taken. But we decided that since someone else had already done it, that it meant actually there was a market for that exact idea and she should continue to move forward with her idea. Because now she had confirmation that it was viable and good!. It is so exciting to watch her take a concept that is in her head and bring it forth onto canvas. That sh*t is spiritual!
01/27/2025
Oh my! this hits home.
Here's an example: "Can you please not leave the cap off the toothpaste?" "Can you please put the cap back on the toothpaste after you use it?' While looking at the toothpaste tube left uncapped saying, "Leaving the cap off makes the toothpaste dry out. That's wasteful." Walk into bathroom, partner is brushing his teeth and cap is still off the toothpaste, "Why are you such a slob?" Crying and saying, "see you don't care about me, because you don't listen." "What's wrong with you?" What's wrong with me? "There is something wrong with us." it was never about the toothpaste was it? Until your partner sees the toothpaste tube and the uncapped lid as distressing as you they might not change. "But if they loved me they would do it for me." This turns into many scenarios. doesn't it?
Your partner's change lies in their own decisions of personal accountability. Talk, nag, beg, plead but it's not really about the toothpaste. Deeper understanding about what's going on inside each other's hearts is where the solution lies. If you or your partner struggle with personal accountability this might be a little tricky. In the meantime, even while that darn lid is off the toothpaste tube and there is toothpaste ooozing all over the counter. Can you be accountable for your own feelings around ______ (fill in the blank)? Stop the requests and the pleading and look at the bigger picture. What can you own? what is the deeper feeling? Try this, "When my partner leaves the toothpaste off, even after I've asked a thousand times not to. I feel..." Then take some time to journal write down and explore your own heart around those feelings. This can often lead to deeper more meaningful conversations with each other.
01/23/2025
Say it again with me.
Everything I lose creates space for everything I need.
Over the last ten years I have been on a major losing streak. Ya know how when you pick up a lump of moist sand in your hand it clumps together? You can hold it in the palm of your hand and it remains sitting there clumped together. If you wait and allow that exact same sand to dry in your hand it will start to break apart, dissipate and fall through your fingers. That's how things have felt with my life over the last 10 years. I would get this big yummy clump of life and hold it in my hand. I would think yes this is it. This is something I can count on and rely on, only to find a few weeks, months, years later it had dried out and falling through my fingers and now I was left holding nothing. I fought that for quite a while. But as it kept happening over and over again, the loss of family, friends, businesses... things I thought were solid and secure, I began to make friends with the concept of impermanence. I began to allow loss to be my teacher. I stopped shouting about all my losses and what a s**t life God had given me and started to look at what was developing in the gaps that the losses had created for me. Those gaps became a fertile ground for all the seeds I had been planting.
I'm still not certain about the future. I don't think I will ever be as certain about my future as I once was before it all fell apart. So I just keep coming back to the spaces with gratitude. Because truly truly... Everything I have lost has created space for everything I have needed and for that I say thank you.
01/21/2025
What I love about being trained as a social worker was that when I assess my clients I look at the whole system they are living in. Not just the child herself. I mention children here but this can be for adults as well. When a therapist can pull back and look at the whole picture the view can become more clear to all of the factors effecting this particular client. There are people who legit have ADHD and nothing else. There are people who have both a trauma brain and an ADHD brain. (Vulnerability moment here as I raise my hand.) Thank sweet baby Jesus I have had a team of amazing therapists and doctors who have helped me better understand how to work with my unique brain and not against it. If you are wondering about childhood trauma in your history, there is a simple test that you can take called the ACES. This is a very good starting place for pulling your view out wider and examining what might actually be animating your limbs.
01/19/2025
Some times the right path is staying still. Sometimes the right path isn't a step forward but a step sideways to help balance yourself. Can you be the path? Can you listen? Recently I attended a silent meditation weekend at The Drala Mountain Center in Colorado. It was hosted by this amazingly chill and wonderful monk named Lodan Nyima.
I was scared. I had never sat in total silence for three hours let alone three days. But I did it! What I found was a profound sense of coming home. I wasn't directionless at all. I was just not looking in the right direction for home.
01/12/2025
Jesus had a job. Jesus’s job wasn’t being Jesus. He wasn’t a therapist, he wasn’t a life coach. He may have become something like that, I mean, he became Jesus! But his JOB was a carpenter. So your job doesn’t have to be who you are. When we think of WWJD… what would Jesus do?... well Jesus would make a chair or a table and then he go out and hang with his Homies and talk about stuff that he’s thinking about or feeling . He was probably a really good listener too. Still not his J.O.B. He wasn’t defined by his job title. He just did him and in just doing or being him, he ended up changing the entire world. So just go do you boo, even if doing you means as a job, you scrub toilets. It’s how you do that job. It’s how you relate to people. It’s effect that you have on people when they’re in your presence that changes the world, just like Jesus did.
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Can you do me a favor? Before you read the rest of my page, take a deep breath in. Now slowly let it out. Do you feel that sense of calm? That breath lets you know you are alive? Now is a very interesting time to be alive. Is it not? it is fraught with challenges, loneliness and pain, yes. We are also being called to rise and do things differently than before. Come! let's move through this storm together. I offer a very different way to be in therapy. It is life changing and highly effective. Let me introduce you to your indomitable spirit and learn to let your breath be your shelter from the storm.
In my practice, I embrace sacred breath work, spiritual direction, mindfulness-based CBT, Yoga Therapy, Reiki, Energy healing & meditation. While I don't currently provide psychedelic assisted therapy, I do offer psychedelic integration support, individually & in groups. My nontraditional approach creates a platform for deep transformation and healing.
I've had a thriving practice for well over a decade. Yet, the more I knew intellectually about psychology and the more I stayed in that head space, the more I felt stuck. I felt restless. I took a sabbatical & journeyed to far away lands, to find my way back to you. Do you feel restless? Hopeless? Agitated? Scared? Do you feel like you're meant for more? Good! It's your time. take another Deep breath & call me.
But before you call me though feel free to read on...Below is the other stuff and credentials you might want to know about me:
I am the owner of a private intuitive psychotherapy / coaching practice specializing in Mindful Resiliency and sacred breathwork for healing and resolution of trauma. My approach is rooted in mindful and yoga based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Experiential, Intuitive and Spiritual Psychotherapy and many trauma informed modalities including DBT, EMDR, Tremor Therapy, Sacred Breath Work, Narrative Therapy and meditation. I bring a deep sense of spirituality and joy to my practice.
I hold two Masters degrees in Social Work from University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and in Specialized Ministry from Iliff School of Theology specializing in Peace and Social Justice and Pastoral Care, as well as, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton. In recent years, my training has gone from academic to esoteric. I am a 200ytt Yoga Teacher. I am a certified Reiki Master initiated under the lineage of Dr. Mikao Usui. My most recent accomplishment and joy is completing a year long certification course in Conscious breath work.
I am so proud that for almost 10 years, I was the Founder and CEO of Project Lumina. Project Lumina was focused on creating a world where women and girls can live life on their own terms. We did that through international travel, mindful introspection, mentoring and cultural exchanges & the awesomeness of surfing. Learning to surf life’s big waves! Since 2018 Project Lumina has closed it’s doors but it lives on in the mission and dreams of Angelica Robinson and Women Awakening, Todos Santos.
My newest adventures include writing two books. I thought I would write them and get them out within one year. Well that’s just not happening so they will be out when they are complete. The first book which is close to my heart is called, Wilumina And The Well. It is a story about a woman who falls through a well to the past, in order to learn about a secret she had been carrying within for hundreds of years. What she does with that secret takes her from ruin to redemption. The second book is titled, The Surfing Sutras based on my experience with Project Lumina and teaching teen girls how to surf through life’s waves.
If you have read through this whole bio then your time is now! You have been guided to me! Call me or message me, let’s talk! I am available to talk with you one on one or with your group!
