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At Root Grow Thrive, I provide holistic and integrative soul care that sets aside convention and leans into innovation, inclusion, and hope. We prioritize healthy community, humility, and openness in order to foster resilience and soul sustenance in the challenging world in which we live. As a trauma therapist and as a certified spiritual director trained in the Jungian Mystical tradition through the Haden Institute, I offer sacred space for all seekers on the journey. It's not about where you come from, or really where you're going. Soul care is about deep listening, companionship, and belonging. It's about knowing and reclaiming power, purpose, and peace--when we feel disconnected, burned out or weary. My vocational spirit and desire is to provide "soul friend" presence so you can unravel what knots that no longer serve you so you can better open into and revel in nourishing connection to your own definition of inner Source.

19/09/2025

Since I opened my practice in 2018, I’ve sat with this question every day: What does it really take to move through burnout—not just patch it over, but actually find a way to sustainably recover?

After years of walking alongside helpers and healers, and having journeyed through my own burnout, I know it’s not as simple as adding “more self-care” to your list.

Burnout recovery is deeper than that. It’s body-based and soul-centered. It’s often about tending to the nervous system, honoring grief and loss, reclaiming your true power, your true sovereignty, even in toxic or broken systems.

You deserve care that is personalized, trauma informed, and doesn’t spiritually bypass. Your path is yours and yours alone. Claiming it is your choice.

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A few ways forward:

💻Check out Sept blog on sustainable burnout recovery.

🎧Learn about soul burnout on my YouTube channel.

✔️ Subscribe to my email list for updates and support, and receive a renewal kit in the process.

All of this in my link in bio.

17/09/2025

Some scenes from my last solo retreat in August. Altar space, tarot and creative practice, journaling, journeying, omen walking in nature.

Living a full life, with teens and schedules and sports and more schedules—it sometimes causes me forget the forest for the trees.
It takes a village when I go away, just like it takes a village when I’m home.

Inner listening sometimes looks like detaching from my roles and moving into stillness with intention and focus.

Part of my own burnout care is the retreat cycle I commit to. This month I am grateful to be able to take time off work and am attending a shamanic retreat with a colleague bestie that will promise to be transformative in all the ways spirit has in store for me.

In the meantime,
we rest.
We pause, we listen.
We connect, we commit.
And we dance.

07/09/2025

Finding resourcing is sometimes not easy, but it is simple. We can make things more complicated than they need to be.

Where are your supports?

Who is in your corner?

What or who is your sacred community?

We don’t need many, we just need one person (pets count!) to help us bring us back to ourselves.

Sustainable recovery from burnout is about rejecting the need to do it all yourself. We deserve and desperately need community.

Feeling disconnection is a symptom of letting these broken systems into your soul.

Reconnection is solidifying your sovereignty from systems that don’t deserve your heart.

Workshops now enrolling for Sept and Oct. Find your people, and connect, together. Link in bio.

02/09/2025

So many helpers and healers tell me:
💬 “I wake up heavy with dread and feel so exhausted.”
💬 “I wish I felt joy in my work again.”
💬 “I’ve been working on myself for years, do all the things and read all the books and even go on retreats, but nothing seems to change.”

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and there is another way. Burnout recovery isn’t about pushing harder or trying to figure out anything. It’s about body-based, soul-centered renewal that brings you back to your wholeness.

I wrote a new blog this month on three pathways of burnout—and the first steps toward integrative recovery (including a piece of my own story).

Link in bio to read ✨

01/09/2025

Read here on the Sept Blog:
3 pathways toward true, sustainable and integrative burnout recovery: www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/beyond-coping-3-pathways-to-integrative-burnout-recovery

18/08/2025

Join me at my latest online retreat offering:

Nourishing Inner Stillness: Psychospiritual Resilience in Times of Change

Resilience is the ability to rebound from adversity - and when we have connection to our psychospiritual wellness, we can feel more hopeful and strong as we face the challenges of fear, worry, and anger.

In this workshop, we'll have a time of poetry for presence and guided mindfulness meditation as we re-orient ourselves to our roots and restore connection to the inner compass. In collaboration with Spirit River Communities of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Oct 1, 12-2p EST
$50
Registration link: https://www.spiritrivercommunity.org/courses/nourishing-inner-stillness%3A-psychospiritual-resilience-in-times-of-change

01/08/2025

In my work with burned-out helpers and healers, I often hold space for considering how loss, grief, and bereavement are significant players in burnout and renewal.

The truth is, grief is not the same as burnout, but unresolved grief can foster burnout. Burnout is not just exhaustion; it is a crisis of meaning, a slow erosion of spirit, purpose, and connection. Grief is the heart’s response to loss, rupture, and change.

When we struggle to tend to our grief, it can show up in over-functioning, resentment, numbness—even a relentless drive to keep going—until we just plain can’t anymore.

On the blog: discerning the difference and first steps. Link in bio or https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/is-it-burnout-or-grief

29/07/2025

Hi.

A quick hello. And if you’re a caption reader— I’m so glad you’re here.

Let’s chat.

I want to tell what you’re feeling right now, here and now, it is valid.

It is real.

That tension in your chest, that stomach clenching. That weariness that emits from your bones—you’re not crazy. And you’re not alone.

If you’re anything like me, being a deep feeler in these times of violence and fear is certainly tough. It’s heart-sickening. Evil is fresh in its delight as it dances on the graves of our hopes and compassion in the broad daylight for all of us to see. It’s trauma, embodied.

It’s easy to feel like hope is a slipping.

It’s easy to take the easy way out and fall asleep to what this moment is asking of you.

In fact, that is what they’re betting on.

But you aren’t a victim. You’re the majority. If you’re reading this, if you have breath in those wet, alive, pink-balloony lungs of yours. You have actionable steps. You have agency. But always, always, first: these feelings. They’re there for a reason.

Look around: we are standing on a threshold.

Oh, those invitations for strength: the rage, the fear, the righteousness, the sadness, the overwhelm, the grief and loss. Your feelings are valid just as this breath you take—here and now, in…out..together.

Together.

Here, now: In, out.

Together.

Only then, can you be with that hope shimmering around us. Only then can we can be with what’s next.

And oh, that next is coming.

17/07/2025

First book I recommend to new clients who come to me for burnout care? Set Boundaries Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawaab.

The second?

Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey.

Seriously, this is a game-changing book.

This book is for those of us who want to answer this question:

Can I live in systems of oppression and not get burned out?

These systems are our ecosystem—we are not victims of their impact but rather we are an integral part of the cellular makeup. When we learn about our blind spots where we contribute to oppression, we reclaim a sense of choice back into our lives.

When one of us gets stronger, so does the whole. As in psychological family system theory, mitigating threat begins with each link in the chain. In this way, inner work is essential for the reclamation of the health of the ecosystem as a whole. It's literally what I do--personally, and in my work at RGT.

Yes there is time when I struggle for the sunlight and grapple for the nutrients and fight for my understanding of who I am in it all. But also, in equal measure, there is rest, and the fallow time, that is so essential to my ability to resource myself. As activist Tricia Hersey says, rest is resistance, and our shame about rest is a result of our conditioning: “Grind culture is violence and violence creates trauma. We have been traumatized deeply.”

Burnout is a cycle when we don't understand this reality. So I schedule rest, I put it on the calendar and tell people I do so. I take concerted time off, I put a note on my door and take an hour or two to do my own soul care, get consultation, have friend and colleague time, and listen to my own needs through silence, stillness, and being in nature.

This week? I'm loving the morning wren chatter as the sun rises--listening to their twittering reminds me the value of voice in community.

How are you resting this summer?

(Photo of Olive and Simon as kittens 😍)

25/06/2025

Simon teaches us everyday the value of rest. Aren’t cats rest gurus?

Rest isn’t just about naps or bubble baths. It’s about interrupting the lie that your worth is tied to what you produce.

If you’re tired, you’re not failing—you’re finally hearing yourself.

For many of us, rest is ancestral repair.

A refusal to keep sacrificing ourselves on the altar of urgency, perfectionism, or some image of who we’re supposed to be.

Rest is where your soul catches up.
It’s where grief breathes.
It’s where resistance takes root.

You don’t need to earn rest.

You ARE the reason to rest.

19/06/2025

Letting things be what they are is not about settling for less. Actually, it is about a reorientation to our power of choice in a world that often tells us we are powerless. Enoughness practice is about intentionality about how we focus our energy. It is choosing presence over any type of perfection, and trusting that your soul speaks, even if your schedule is a mess, or you haven’t gotten to laundry in over a week, or you feel like collapsing into despair, once again, when you open your news app.

But enoughness looks like rest, not striving. It looks like revolutionary love.

Can you allow yourself to know that this is true?

In this month’s blog, link in bio or here: https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/finding-a-way-forward-being-enough

13/06/2025

You’ve been taught to ignore the cues. To override the ache. To call your body’s exhaustion a mindset issue.

But your body isn’t a machine. It’s a living archive. It remembers the harms you’ve carried. And it’s asking for more than a mindfulness app.

It’s asking for rest. For slowness. For truth.

Let this be a reclamation:
My worth is not measured in output.
My rest is not negotiable.
My body belongs to me.

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