I’m an award-winning educator who spent 20 years in Philly high school and university classrooms. I taught literature, writing, and education courses, always with a fierce focus on joy, community, intentionality, and student agency. I designed and led innovative coaching and mentoring programs, most recently one centered in bridging the gap between effective practice and educator mental health.
Now, I’m bringing those skills and my deep love of facilitating meaningful growth and self-discovery to a more intimate, soul-centered kind of work.
I also come to this work honestly: through lived experience as a working parent and partner with chronic illness, neurodivergence, a lifelong dance with anxiety and depression, and most recently, hitting a level of burnout that forced me to hit the brakes, rebuild my community of care, and re-evaluate how I was spending my one wild and precious life.
Who I Am, and What I Believe
I’ve always been interested in astrology, personality types, and divination, but the last few years have pushed me to dig more deeply into these frameworks as ways to explore (and make better sense of!) my past, my present, and my (and the collective’s) futures. I’ve undertaken a deep study of these modalities, an extension of the work on trauma, social-emotional well-being, and burnout I’d conducted (and experienced) in my previous career.
These modalities resonate for many, even though modern society has tried to undermine and belittle them. Tools like astrology and energy healing use story and symbols and touch and intuitive practices that have been woven through thousands of years of human existence. They use traditions and research and philosophies that some may consider ‘woo’ but that are deserving or respect, curiosity, and further study.
I’ve come to see these tools not as definitive predictors of what’s to come. When used responsibly, they are also safeguarded from becoming another way that systems of oppression and competition and disassociation and dehumanization box us in and shame us. Rather, I see them as ways to “listen inward;” to use myth and art and human connection to make it all make a bit more sense. And with that intellectual and somatic knowledge, we are better able to speak our truth, to love and give honestly, and to find and follow our most aligned life path.
How the planets inhabit your birth chart, the growth edges and shadows of your enneagram type, and the resonance of the tarot cards you pull—they’re all invitations to notice your patterns with tenderness and your gifts with bravery. And I’m here to help along the way. <3
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