From an early age, I felt most at home being outside with the plants, elements, and animals. I would wake early in the morning before the rest of the house and sneak outside to explore the gardens, trees, and find mice amongst the cut grass piles. I have fond memories of my first childhood yard that felt like a Universe of possibilities and every day an adventure.

Like most children, I was placed into a system that removed the imagination from the child rather than nurtured it. I slowly, over time, began to disconnect from nature and my truest form.

Regardless of the time I spent disconnected from my inner child — there were parts of me that remained intact. One was my love and connection to the earth and being able to communicate with it, and the other was my heightened intuition and keen instincts.

While I was living my ‘programmed’ life, I was always aware of my love for human connection, my keen intuition, and my sensitivity to energy and the unseen. I always knew there was more beyond this world and spirit was reaching out to me in various ways. I wasn’t able to notice at first, but life situations woke me up.

At 8 weeks pregnant with my first child (see that sweet face above, holding my second child), I was let go from a prestigious marketing agency in downtown Toronto. I was in shock, to say the least. I was a key player in the company. I worked countless hours on high-pressure accounts delivering results. Why would a company I was so loyal to, let me go? It was simple… it wasn’t personal it was business. This was common in this industry - to be relevant one day and replaceable the next. I didn’t feel that way at the time, however, I was really devasted, scared, and uncertain especially with a new baby on the way.

Luckily for me, my resume spoke volumes and I was able to find work again within 2 weeks and began the agency assembly line all over again. I believed this career was my path to success and praise in life. I believed that unless I did this work, I was of no value and I had to put this work before all else to reach a six-figure income and be happy. I believed that money and status were what made you worthy of relationships, a house, belonging, being wanted, and how I could achieve people’s praises and attention.

That’s when I experienced my first shamanic death, as they call it.

My soul knew I couldn’t sustain this illusion for very long. My mental and emotional well-being was already in jeopardy and after having my daughter my physical body was suffering. After returning to work from my maternity leave, my body started to physically manifest severe abdominal pain. At one point, I thought it was my appendix or gall bladder and I immediately left my office to head to the nearest ER. Once in my car, and about 20 minutes from where I worked, all the pain stopped. It just stopped. Gone.

Without words to explain what had happened, I heard my inner voice say, “This life is killing you and you will be no good to your family if you are gone.” I knew then and there the expiry date on this career was well overdue. A few days later, I walked into my HR’s office and handed her my key card, my laptop, and a letter stating that “effective immediately, I was resigning.” I walked out shaking, scared, and feeling all at once so relieved. I was out, I was leaving that part of me behind and I had no clue what I was going to do next.

I knew I needed someone or something to guide me,

This led me back to my remembering that at one point I used to talk to nature, the animals, and the unseen. That at one point I had a tarot deck that fascinated me. That at one point, I used to feel energy imprints in places where things had happened, and I could receive messages from Spirit about things and speak to those who have crossed over.

This moment of REMEMBERING allowed me to find further support and healing modalities that helped to wake up my dormant qualities, wake up my connection to the earth, and wake up my mind, body, and soul.

Early in this journey, I was guided to the horses and they have been prominent healers in this life for me. They have helped me to heal years of trauma, pain, and suffering. It is through the work I have done for myself with the horses that I began to facilitate this deep healing connection for others.

I think back to this series of events that led me right here… to this now and whoa what a journey! It has been many years of intentional healing and yet it feels like I have done the work of 20 decades. I fully committed to becoming the version of myself I knew I was deep within my heart. I was not a corporate ladder climber, I was not here to fill my pockets while I watched from a glass tower the world being destroyed or humans being neglected.

No, I am a village tender, a sacred keeper of earth and ancestral wisdom. I am a torch in the shadows and someone who cares deeply for all living beings. I am a healer and a helper and I wanted to align my heart with this vision and do that.

Along the way, the voices of my Ancestors began to get louder. So loud, I couldn’t ignore them any longer. I kept discovering Shamanic practices and teachings throughout my work and self-exploration. It was like a pesky mosquito that just wouldn’t let up until it had its fill of sweet blood. It just kept coming back into my peripheral awareness.

Many times my path crossed with practices that were shamanic in nature and many times it felt like I was remembering something of my past. It never felt ‘new’ or foreign to me. It felt like I was coming home to something that was already part of me, to something I already knew how to do and couldn’t explain why.

The beauty that has unfolded since I committed to a life that includes shamanic and Indigenous philosophies has been exceptionally transformative, a test of my will, an ever-flowing cup of nectar, and so many invitations I cannot begin to share them all here. I’ll save it for a book one day, but needless to say, I have fully committed to this path and my medicine because of everything I have been through and because of how sacred the remembering of who I am has truly become. There really is no going back to how things were because life is far more ALIVE now than it ever before.

Wherever you are on your journey, I will meet you there. Only you know when you are ready to reach out and ask for the spiritual guide to reveal themselves and only then can the soul be ready to truly transform.

Everything I offer you, I have experienced myself.

The Journey of Blood & Bones

In 2018, I was gifted the Spirit Name, Bringer of Light Woman by Asha Frost Indigenous Medicine Woman upon completing the Sacred Medicine Training with 30+ other women. It is something I carry in my medicine bag as a reminder of who I am and the light I carry. Asha’s teachings also invited me to get more serious and curious about my ancestry and lineages. I wanted to make sure that I was always appreciating the traditions that had helped me awaken my gifts but never to appropriate or take from them.

I grew up in a predominantly Canadian and Italian home. My mother’s family immigrated from Italy to Canada between 1951 and 1952. My father’s side had been in Canada for many generations and for most of my life I knew his side as just ‘Canadian’. I have spent the last three years researching and uncovering the hidden stories on my father’s side to find out more about my ancestors. I was already connecting with them through dreams and journeys but had no other physical ‘proof’.

I decided to complete an ancestry DNA kit to help me hone in on my lineages specifically. It came back almost 50/50 split between English, Irish, Scottish and Italian ancestry. I also had a pretty decent percentage of French and German ancestry appear and later would discover my 4x Great Grandfather was native to France. Through my exploration and in speaking to the elders of a French fishing town in the Northshore’s of Newfoundland, I also discovered my 4x great grandmother was an Indigenous healer. Finding the stories and accessing this knowledge has proven to be the most profound gift I could ever receive on my journey to self. I am beginning to understand why I chose this path and why I am remembering my connection to certain tools, practices, and teachings. It’s because it’s in my bones, it’s the wisdom I have always carried, and from these people, I was created.

Today, I am an advocate for bringing people together, reconnecting back to the intelligence of the earth and ancestors, and being empowered in mind, body, and liberated as a soul. It’s the work I am doing that reinforces my role as a village tender and keeper of sacred wisdom here to support us through life’s many adversities and transitions. I fully adopt a shamanic approach to my life, to raising my family, healing, and with all those who work with me.

My approach using Shamanic teachings is that of a Shadow Guide, Dream Tender, and Visionary. I use the teachings and tools to help empower and unlock your potential, purpose, and abilities that will in turn be the medicine you give back to the world.

I invite you to explore what I have to offer and please reach out and book a call with me — It’s free and I absolutely love meeting and chatting with new like-minded souls.

I’m proud of my journey

While credentials and achievements aren’t the sexiest things to list out on a website, I do believe these are important to share. You’ll get a sense of where I’ve been, and my investment in my own personal journey to become congruent in my medicine offerings. The moment we stop learning we stop growing.

• Initiation 1.0 and Advanced Mediumship Training at Spirit School with Danielle Searancke, Squamish Medium [May 2023 to Sept 2023]

• 9-Month Awaken the Sage Within, Shamanic initiation program with Tree of Totems [2021-2022]

• Exploratory Herbal Mentorship, Fall 2021 with Dr. Jacqui Wilken

• Shamanic Munay Ki Rites, Womb Rite (Rite 13) Initiation Training and Facilitator of the Munay Ki Transmissions - Ceremonial School of Amaruanka [2020]

• NLP Practitioner Certification + NLP Coach Certification - Awaken Your Awesomeness [2021]

• Time Line Therapy® Practitioner Certification - Awaken Your Awesomeness [2021]

• Hypnotherapy Certification [2021]

  • Designation of certification through the American Board of NLP and the Tad James Co. with Master Coach & Trainer Alison Davies, CEO & Institute Head of Awaken Your Awesomeness. Completed May 2021.

• Becoming Naturewise Program with Chivito Cowa of Tree of Totems - Summer Season 2020 and Mentorship Apprentice during the Summer Season 2021.

• 9 Month Shamanic Shadow Guide Practitioner Training with Chivito Cowa of Tree of Totems - [2020-2021]

• Sacred Indigenous Medicine Training & Mentorship with Asha Frost, Healing Rainbow Medicine Woman - [2018]

• Certified in Equine Massage Therapy - [2016]

• Ancient Practice of Shamanic Journeying (7-week program) with Sandra Ingerman - [2019-2020]

• Healing with Spiritual Light (7-week program) with Sandra Ingerman - [2019]

• Foundational Shamanic Energy Training and the Munay-Ki Rites - [2019]

• Usui Reiki Master / Teacher [2015-2019]

• Level 1 Tera Mai Reiki [2015]

• Level 1 Pet Reiki [2015]

• Self-studying Astrology enthusiast

• Aqualead Master / Teacher [2016]

• Creator of Healing & Transformational Nature and Women’s Retreats

  • Awaken the Elements (Women’s Nature Retreat) - 3x weekend retreats [2017-2018]

  • Women’s Healing & Nature Retreats - 5x weekend retreats [2019-2021]

  • Seasonal Nature Retreats with Horses - 8x 1 day retreats [2019-2021]

• Sacred Circle Facilitator rooted in deep Ceremony & Ritual practices

• Facilitator of New/Full Moon Ceremonies, Healing Circles, Shamanic Journeys, Ritual & Divination workshops

• Creator of Mind Medicine Monday - Weekly inspiration & Live Readings

• Accomplished Tarot & Oracle card reader & Spirit Communicator

• Psychic Reader & Medium

• Future Oracle card creator

• Senior Product & Digital Producer / Marketing & Communications (20 years background)
  

Everything I practice, preach and put out into the world is work I have done personally myself or it has been an integral piece of my lived experiences. I do the healing so I can fully understand the process & outcomes to better serve you on your journey.