I understand the struggles of chronic pain, anxiety, depression, headaches, compromised immunity, and digestive dysfunction, and the impact of developmental and complex trauma on health, because I’ve been there myself.

As a kid, I suffered from debilitating headaches, chronic pain, and frequent infections, ear infections and strep throat. In adolescence and early adulthood, this snowballed into crippling anxiety, depression, and digestive issues. Alongside scoliosis and kyphosis, severe curves in my spine, I often felt like my body was tied in a knot.

I tried everything to get better. Most things offered only temporary relief at best, or worsened my symptoms.

It wasn’t until just after college that a therapist introduced me to BodyTalk. She believed it could help me more than talk therapy. She was right. Within a couple of sessions, the severe curve in my spine began to unravel. The trauma residue keeping my body gripped in survival began to release. Instead of suppressing symptoms, BodyTalk helped my body express health.

Fast forward to today, I’m nearly three inches taller. I no longer live with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, or headaches. My digestion is stronger than ever.

Through BodyTalk, I was able to mine the gold of unresolved trauma, not only to heal pain, anxiety, and depression, but to create a life of meaningful connection and purpose. That’s what I’ve helped thousands of clients do for over 20 years.

This work doesn’t bypass. It doesn’t rush. It honors the intelligence of the body and the sacred timing of transformation. It’s about forging something new from the truth of what’s been lived.

Because healing isn’t just about feeling better. It’s about remembering who you are, and becoming who you’re meant to be.

My art and healing work are two sides of the same devotion: to transmute pain into purpose, to make the invisible visible.

Healing and art are acts of defiance. They defy the lie that we are meant to stay broken, that pain is permanent, that the damage is done. They reject the inertia of suffering and call us, body, mind, and spirit, into the work of transformation.

To heal is to disrupt the lineage of trauma. To create is to reclaim what was once stolen. These are not luxuries. They are necessary acts of remembering, who we are, what we carry, and what we’re here to embody.

Healing is a reckoning, an unflinching confrontation with the grief, rage, fear, and fragmentation we’ve been conditioned to suppress. It’s personal and political, ancient and immediate. What lives in our bodies also lives in our cultures, our histories, and our systems.

We are living in an age of collapse. The world as we knew it is breaking apart, and the body knows it. Anxiety, chronic pain, despair, these are not pathologies. They are healthy responses to an unhealthy world. They are intelligence. Invitations. Tremors before the turning. The body’s way of saying: This isn’t sustainable. There’s another way.

Your symptoms aren’t just disruptions. They are signals. They carry direction. They point toward the life that’s asking to be lived through you.

This moment is not a death sentence. It’s an evolutionary threshold, a sacred invitation to descend, deconstruct, alchemize, and emerge with vision, clarity, and conviction. We are being asked to evolve, not just to survive, but to reclaim our place in the web of life, to become fierce custodians of truth, to mine the gold buried in our wounds.

My art is a continuation of that process. It’s devotion. It gives form to what lives beneath language, the rupture and repair, the descent and emergence, the unmaking and becoming. Each piece is a portal, an invocation, a mirror of the healing journey in motion.

Both healing and art demand that we show up fully, raw, awake, accountable. They ask us to let go of false promises and lean into what’s real. To ride the wave of evolution, not resist it.

This is the work of liberation. Not a fantasy of arrival, but a daily return to truth. A commitment to living with vision, courage, and care in a world on fire.

As Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

Before I found BodyTalk, I worked for the Washington Wilderness Coalition in Seattle, first as a canvas director and later as a grassroots organizer, rallying communities, training volunteers, and building coalitions with organizations like the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, and the Audubon Society.

Together, we secured the 2001 Roadless Rule, protecting nearly 60 million acres of wilderness from roads and logging, and helped establish the Wild Sky Wilderness, adding 2.6 million acres to the Cascade Range’s protected lands from Canada to Snoqualmie Pass.

Those years shaped me, and continue to shape my healing and art practice. The work wasn’t just about policy; it was about preservation: of land, of life, of what’s sacred.