I have been honing my skills my whole life (as have you!!). All the influences have come together to create my unique perspective–my patchwork quilt–and approach to healing. In 2007, I went back to school after 2 years off and began taking Pre-Med classes at the local community college to become an anesthesiologist–putting people to sleep. In the same breath I became fascinated with the idea that
I could be a body piercer. After a year, I moved to Indianapolis and began talks with a piercer there about apprenticeship. After 9 months of talks, all seemed well, so I gave him $2000 for discussed training never to hear from the man again. I no longer felt the pull for modern medicine but continued taking classes in Exercise Science, but I held my vision strong for body modification and learned about Fakir Musafar and his Body Piercing Intensives in San Francisco. In January of 2011, I flew to California for a week of pure magic and bliss. I was able to do things I didn't realize I could, and I walked away with an awakening of shamanic energy work. I moved to Columbus, OH that fall and began working as a shop manager on Sundays at a tattoo and piercing studio with the promise of apprenticeship on the horizon. God had different plans for me and in 2012 I realized what that was. My mission is to help people wake up, not go to sleep (as anesthesiology would have done)! Thus began my search for the meaning of life and a tribe that understood my experiences. I have increasingly found friends, helpful tools, thoughts, belief systems, sacred natural, earth-blessed medicines, teachers and inner wisdom to help myself overcome depression, alcoholism, addiction to tobacco and cannabis, as well as modify behavior and thought patterns that didn't serve me. My teachers have guided me well and I am confident working with the medicines (plants, energy attunements, sacred tools, songs, etc.) My influences include Shipibo, Lakota, Huichol, Bushman, Samurai, Shakers and Quakers, among others. The biggest change is when I stopped doubting myself and just started doing what I knew I could do all along–help people. I have held a number of ceremonies with close friends and then also with new acquaintances (and dare I say new friends!)
and have received very good feedback. I consistently put that feedback to work to see what holds water and resonates with me. Most importantly, I "Let Go and Let God." I am constantly learning and striving to be better in mind, body and soul and I thank you for allowing me to help you. I love you all! I'm so honored to walk on this Earth with you.
