Welcome!

What I Do:

I help people bring the quiet fire beneath their desires into form…so they can create a life and world they love, and step into what once felt impossible. Grounded in what I call Contemplative Creative Alchemy, this work is NOT about motivation or manifestation. It is about learning to work consciously with the innate creative power that shapes our lives – through presence, choice, and aligned action. 

A Life Illuminated by Lightning

At seventeen, I was struck by lightning.

Riding my bike home from a summer job, a sudden storm erupted. A three-pronged fork of lightning hit me directly, throwing me into the air. I landed on my feet and ran home, leaving behind a twisted mass of metal in the road.

That moment changed everything.

I didn’t have language for it then, but it awakened me to the living field of energy that moves through and surrounds all life. In the years that followed, my body carried the imprint of that shock. Thunder triggered pain, panic, and shutdown—patterns that shaped how I met life’s unexpected challenges well into adulthood.

Returning to the Source

Over time, I developed a deep love of light. As the daughter of a professional photographer, I learned to study it closely. Yet I felt disconnected from its inner source—awareness itself.

Like many people, I searched for comfort outside myself. Still, the same current that once struck me was quietly calling me home.

As an adult, I explored many paths—psychotherapy, mindfulness, meditation, Tai Chi, energy medicine, indigenous wisdom traditions, visual communication, and coaching. Through lived experience, I discovered a simple truth:

It is not what happens to us that shapes our lives, but the quality of awareness we bring to what happens.

Quiet Fire: My Why

From this understanding, Contemplative Creative Alchemy emerged.

Contemplative Creative Alchemy is the practice of working with the innate creative power within each person—that quiet fire that has the capacity to shape life through conscious choice, presence, and action. It is both self-governing rather than reactive, and firey because it is animating, generative, and transformative.

This work holds responsibility and power in equal measure, each shaping the other with care, integrity, and wisdom. It asks us to become aware of our impact and to steward creative power so it becomes a force for creation rather than domination.

Contemplative Creative Alchemy then, is both the power we hold and the responsibility to use it wisely.

My Work Today

Today, I stand for this reconnection in others.

As a guide and teacher, I help people reclaim their creative fire and bring it into form through grounded, embodied practices that integrate awareness, compassion, and practical action. My role is not to give answers, but to help people remember their own creative authority and learn how to work with it wisely.

The lightning that once changed my life has become a living symbol of my work—powerful, illuminating, and life-affirming.

My Purpose

My purpose is simple:

To practice and teach people to bring their quiet fire to life,
to hold it with integrity,
and to help others do the same—wisely.