I come to this work a life long student of humans and healing. I studied psychology as an undergrad and imagined that I wanted to be a talk therapist. Towards the end of my undergrad career I was blessed with some really amazing teachers. They offered a very wise, well-informed, and ahead of their time understanding of trauma. It became crystal clear to me that we couldn't just talk our way out of our trauma, the body needed to be involved. I knew it was true, and at the same time I didn’t really understand (in 2001) what it meant to do healing work in an embodied way. After graduation I worked in women’s healthcare and mental health, I learned a ton and none of it felt like a perfect fit.

In my mid 20's I had some serious and mysterious health problems. After flailing about within Western medicine for a while, I got connected with some amazing bodyworkers. I experienced healing beyond what I believed my body was capable of and at the same time I felt like I was getting a guided tour of this mysterious place that was my home, my body. It was life changing and I remember thinking "I don't know what this is but I need to find out!!". So, I started massage school. Along the way there were twists and turns and health struggles (the lived experience is never as linear as the retelling makes it sound) but I finished massage school in 2009 and I started my bodywork practice. I had my own massage and bodywork practice for over a decade. It is work I loved.

 I learned so much from my clients and their bodies. I learned to listen, to see/feel what our bodies say outside of spoken language. I learned to trust our bodies, they are so wise. I cherished the work of helping to guide my clients back to connection with the wisdom of their own bodies. My years in bodywork practice deeply inform my Realization Process practice.

I found The Realization Process during a time of big spiritual seeking in my life. A friend recommended the podcast Bliss and Grit in which two friends discussed their experience of their own ongoing embodied spiritual awakening. The hosts shared about their experience of Realization Process work and I felt a big giant YES! to what they described. I listened to interviews with Judith, read some of her books and worked on her Sounds True course on my own. I realized if I wanted to fully explore what the work had to offer I needed one-on-one experience with a knowledgeable teacher. 

In early 2019 I began my in-depth Realization Process study, working one-on-one with a Senior Realization Process Teacher, Jon Hansen. It was pretty much love at first session. I will never forget the first time Jon guided me to rest in my own heart center and then staying in that place of deep contact with myself, he invited me to connect with his heart center. It was a transformative moment. I have been well and deeply loved in my life and yet the connection I found when I was deeply connected to myself and at the same time deeply connected to another person (who was in deep contact with himself) was a revelation. In that moment and that connection I found something I knew I'd been looking for my whole life, without ever knowing it. I knew pretty quickly that I felt called to share this work with the world. I continue to be in awe of RP work and the depth of loving safe connection to myself and to the world that is available to me.

Since then I have become a fully certified Realization Process Teacher. I am certified in the Meditation, Embodiment and Healing Ground aspects of the Realization Process. I continue in my personal RP studies, study in formal trainings and study one on one with Senior Realization Process teachers. I am profoundly grateful for The Realization Process and that I get to share this work with the world.

In the rest of my life I am a mother to my homeschooled kiddo, partner to my husband and friend/family to an amazing group of humans. I grew up a city kid and now call rural central Pennsylvania in the US home. We are blessed to live surrounded by extended family, a vibrant community and beautiful nature.