Wrestling with myself, through depression when I was younger, and a gnawing feeling of being “stuck” or “lost” later on, led me to try more healing modalities than I can count. Many of them were significant + powerful steps on a journey to find myself.
Family Constellations has been the most deeply affecting, personally, because it truly helps to heal core wounds, and it does so in a playful, mystical-yet-practical, phenomenological, profound way.
Beauty, transformation, and expression are what motivate me. Beauty as a portal for connection with divinity. Transformation as the right to become the most authentic and healed self, through baby steps and giant leaps. Expression, as the soul’s delight. Low brow + high brow. Constantly evolving.
Any vision of growing up that I had as a kid was centered around being an artist… a painter, and I took that vision seriously until dropping out of art school (MICA) and entering an era of feeling lost + unsure of myself. After becoming a massage therapist, working on farms, providing childcare, traveling constantly, and pretending not to be an artist for about 15 years, I slowly found my way back to center.
I tried illustration + watercolor, went back to school for textile + surface pattern design (FIT), started painting on clothing and accessories, and miraculously made my way back to the absolute unbridled joy of painting that I knew as a child by embracing abstract expressionism.
Reconnecting with the lost pleasure of painting felt like suddenly opening the door to a home I thought I had lost.
While grief opened the portal, I owe the deeper trust in myself and my path to the healing I’ve received through Family Constellations.
I see individual healing and self-acceptance as a contribution toward dismantling systems of oppression, aiding collective transformation, and building a more healthy and beautiful world.
Attending Family Constellations circles for five+ years before beginning facilitator training gave me a deep appreciation for the work and time to experience the unfolding effects in my own life. Constellations gave me a sense of liberation and deep self-acceptance, and continues to empower and enrich my life in countless ways. Learning facilitation from Nick Werber was a deep honor, and I hope to continue the lineage of this work in the grounded and generous way in which I was fortunate enough to receive it.