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Who am I?
Welcome fellow travelers. I am a human who is trying to live a life with intention. I am a helper and a healer who will never outgrow the need to be helped or healed.
I believe in the interconnectedness of all living beings. I believe that as we reconnect with nature, we reconnect with ourselves and with others.
As a child of the Chesapeake Bay, my body, mind, and soul feel happiest in nature. My curiosity and reflective practice now find themselves at home in the Blue Ridge mountains of south-central Appalachia.
The Caregiver + the Chemist
On my mother’s side, I come from a long line of nurturers. My mother was an early childhood educator, caregiver for the elderly, and is a present, loving, and nurturing mother, grandmother, wife, sister, aunt, and friend. She taught me how to love others with kindness and compassion.
My father was a chemist, systems’ leader in environmental regulation, and is a seeker of knowledge and understanding. He takes problems and breaks them into approachable steps and seeks to understand, solve, and make things better. He taught me how to learn with curiosity and humility and how to try new things with openness and confidence.
My mother and father are both spiritual beings who continue to grow and develop in making sense of this wild and wonderful world.
I have found a professional path that synthesizes my mother’s nurturing and my father’s empiricism….but I’m jumping ahead of myself.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My parents gave me a bracelet with this quote on it when I graduated from high school and it’s been a favorite quote of mine ever since!
