• MA Counseling Psychology

• Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Ryoho Reiki Master

• Death Doula Intensive Certificate Training, Sacred Crossing Institute

• Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma with a Native Lens Facilitator

• LiveMore ScreenLess Digital Wellbeing Training co-developer

• Sholom Home Hospice, End-of-Life Doula Volunteer

I seek to be a catalyst for connection and awakening and an instrument of healing and repair.

I’m a middle child, mother, friend, spouse, licensed school counselor, facilitator, mentor and guide. I come to this practice of Death work not because I have intimate experience with losing loved ones close to me - I come to Death work because I know what it feels like to not be fully alive. Death and life are two sides of the same coin. 

Most of my life I felt like a caged tiger, trapped in an unseen cage and fighting against forces seen and unseen. At my core, I felt anxious, empty and…trapped.

Yet, I’ve always loved and been fascinated by people - our passions, eccentricities, curiosities and contradictions. I was a history major at Carleton College - drawn to history because I felt the humanities offered a broad lens from which to understand people and cultures. 

I trained to be a School Counselor and served as a middle and high school counselor in Boston and Minneapolis Public Schools for close to 15 years. I loved my training at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA,  getting my masters in Counseling Psychology with others who were pursuing their mission of “Let’s Wake Up the World.” 

I loved so many things about being a School Counselor. The daily work with students and collaborating with families and educators  was creative, intense and fulfilling.  I love teenagers - their existence at the transition of childhood and adulthood, their  curiosity,  complexity,  and questioning of their identity, values, relationships, society and what kind of lives  they want to live. 

I served in this role until I had a child and the unsustainable way I was working and living became a mid-life awakening.  I sought out a guide who I went to in desperation. She allowed me to see what my heart already knew: it was time for my life to take a drastic turn.

I had been hearing an inner siren call to pursue work that combined Mind-Body-Spirit. But,  I didn’t know what that could look like. This guide looked at me and asked: “What do you think about being a Death Doula?” Key moments of my life came flashing before me,  I felt a softening around my heart and every cell in my body sang “Yes.” 

With deep sorrow, I left being a school counselor in the summer of 2021. Thus marked a new chapter of leaning into the process of becoming, of healing and building new relationships- I learned how to hear me and uncover that beauty is life when life reveals her holy face.

Part of my journey is from independence to interdependence. I grew up on Independence Rd in a sheltered, small town in New England. My heart was hardened by the time I reached kindergarten. The air I breathed was infused with elitism,  “othering” and fear (the town mascot holds a gun). Yet, there was also tremendous natural beauty, a reverence of history, friends and mentors.

Experiencing yoga in college was the first time my mind, heart and body knew moments of stillness and peace. There is a yogic teaching that we need to “root to rise” that rings very true for me; Remembering my own ancestral and energetic roots is a key part of my practice. I so deeply feel its importance now that it’s present for me.

While I was contemplating a name for this practice, I was turning over this teaching of “root to rise” in my mind.  As I stepped outside my back door, wondering, I spotted an eagle soaring in the sky! That’s it! Soar is the word that depicts the sensation my heart longs for. 

Even though it makes for a rather long name, the word “together” insisted upon being in the name. Since the myth of the rugged individual is so deeply woven into our dominant culture’s consciousness, it felt very important for me to uphold a different principle that I came to remember: that we are all connected and interwoven into the web  of life.

I am deeply relational. I love people. It is thanks to my teachers and mentors along my journey that I have been steered toward nourishing my soul’s quest for freedom and fulfillment. And for sharing these tools for living with others. 

I carry an eclectic orientation, a lifelong quest for wellbeing and uncovering creative ways to deeply connect with people.

I offer my clients my steadfast anchoring.  I trust in them - in their inner beauty. That each of us carries a sacred medicine or gift to offer the world in these turbulent times. That we live in “the long dark” and need to build communities and lives of authenticity, balance and connection.

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