At 27, I lost my mother to cancer. At 34, I woke up to our intersecting planetary crises. At 37, I sat an 80-day solitary cabin retreat in the Northern Vermont winter. As I passed through each of these crucibles, I was holding a question: Given the fact that I really will die, how should I live now?

Bringing people together — so that we can help each other wake up, grow up, and show up — is part of my answer.

For more than two years, I was in full-time spiritual training at the Monastic Academy, where I became passionate about 21st-century wisdom institutions, networks of sacred relationship, and the human beings who are building and weaving them.

I am a certified Circling facilitator in the Circling Europe tradition, and I believe deeply in the practice of waking up through relationship. I have spent thousands of hours in silent meditation in the Insight and Zen traditions, among others. 

I also spent four years in full-time training and practice to become a psychotherapist, specializing in trauma and grief. I earned a Master’s degree, practiced 3,000 hours under supervision, and earned a clinical license. I have advanced training in attachment theory, somatic approaches, mindfulness-based therapies, and psychodynamic theory.

In my first career, I was a classical violinist. These days, I write songs.