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Credentials: Bachelors of Science Degree Anthropology & Sociology Minor in Psychology Eastern Oregon University 1996
Masters Degree Portland State University 2000
Reiki Master/Teacher Registered Healer since 2005 with International Natural Healers Association.
Ordained Minister Universal Life Church since 2005
Member: International Natural Healers Association Reiki Blessings Academy Associate
Personal Journey: I grew up fairly white-bread “normal”, graduated high school, married, had a child, divorced, worked a number of minimum wage jobs and eventually went to college.
During my 40th year or so, I began to notice feeling like I wasn’t alone, even when I was. This feeling intensified, and I went to a psychiatrist. He was more than willing to place me on medication, and I’ll admit, it made me care just a little bit less.
These feelings expanded into full-fledged spirit visitations complete with information that could often be verified, and that I had no way knowing. My computer and other electronic devices in my home would episodically and inexplicably mal-function (radios going off and on, lights flickering, computer problems with weird error messages, battery operated smoke detectors going off, footsteps etc. I also began to get glimpses of past lives I had experienced, some sense of parallel existences and noticed an emerging ability to get information from others when I touched them or spent a little time hearing their stories. I could also assist people with physical and emotional issues through energetic touch and was becoming more acutely aware of my empathic “gifts”.
Of course, I thought I was going crazy. Mental illness, that was the only explanation. And if it was more, how did that fit with my Christian upbringing? Surely, it was evil if it wasn’t insanity.
There is far too much information to relay in this short introduction. Suffice to say, this opened up a long, painful and frightening spiritual awakening. I was not taking it well. I was dragged, kicking and screaming with fingers in both my ears, humming a tune of denial, into my gifts. I was being called, like it or not, into the realm of the unknown, where I was to learn that “God” was much bigger than the Bible, much bigger than a church or religion, much bigger than anyone allows “him/her” to be. This rocked my world. It still does sometimes.
I suffered several debilitating physical conditions including Endometriosis, and migraine headaches, which in retrospect, I believe had something to do with denying my true identity and trying to live a life to make others more comfortable. Sometimes I felt the pain was more than I could tolerate.
Finally, I surrendered. I said “Here I am God, use me as an instrument of your love and your peace. Thy will be done.” I wish I could say that it has been smooth sailing ever since. It is a journey, not a destination. I still struggle. I bring the karma of previous lives, and the programming of my culture and family. I bring my shortcomings, my fears, my doubts and my confusion and simply lay them down, asking to be shown the way. The path continues to twist and turn. Where I’ll be tomorrow is anybody’s guess.
I know I want to assist others on their journeys. If they are experiencing anything like what I am, support is a really nice thing to have. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. I have been, and continue to be, both teacher and student. |
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ABOUT ME |
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“She who believes in herself...
Trusting her instincts was the hardest thing she ever did.
But she listened to the whisperings of her heart.
She pushed forth with faith In her skills... and faith in her knowledge that she could succeed.
And she did!
In the end, trusting her heart, was the smartest thing she ever did!”
~ unknown ~ |
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“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar”
~ Trina Paulus~ |
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“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~ |
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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
~ Theodor Seuss Geisel ~ aka Dr. Seuss
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He who has a ‘why’ to live for can bear almost any ‘how’.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ |
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~ |
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Blessed are the cracked, for it is they who let in the light.
~ Unknown ~ |
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
~ Steven Covey ~ |