"We must use what we have to invent what we desire."

- Adrienne Rich

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Get to Know Stacey

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 innovating 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.

Joys & Other Work

Tracing the Paths of my Ancestors

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Painting & Crafting of All Kinds

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Gardening & Just Generally Being in Nature

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Hey South Philly! Join me next Wed 3/4 for a community reiki and meditation circle. Register via 🔗 in bio. Reiki is an intuitive and gentle no-touch form of energy healing. At the session, you’ll learn about how energy flows through your bodies’ chakras and be invited to rest, relax, and recharge your energy centers. No prior experience with reiki or meditation is required! A portion of this event’s proceeds will be donated to @thedandelionproject.us, a social-justice agile learning community for kids 5-18! 💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️

The nearing 🌕 Full 🪱 Worm Moon has got me thinking about warming earth (just ignore all the ice and snow, ok?) and nudging my sidewalk garden back into life... where are my other Philly #stoopgardeners at? Anyone up for a #plantswap? #planttherapy #naturemedicine #phillyplantpeople #urbangardening #hearthwisehealing

#ToxicPositivity is definitely a thing, but l've had to learn now to throw the olive out with the undrunk martini: We can't change what's already been written into our stories, but we can revise it. #Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to create and reorganize #neuralpathways in our brains. These neural connections are what form our thoughts and behavior patterns. Everything you say to or think about yourself deepens the neural grooves in your brain. It takes effort to push back against the evolutionary impulse to focus on the negative (it keeps us safe!), but giving airtime to positive experiences and different kinds of self-talk create new, more functional neural pathways. Words are spells. They manifest our reality. Speak with love and compassion and patience, especially to yourself. #hearthwisehealing #positiveselftalk #quietingtheinnercritic #wordsarespells