I think of myself as a wounded healer, teacher, and mystic.  My dad died of brain cancer when I was ten years old. He was my nurturing parent: the person who taught me to paint and the loved one that gave me baths and tickled me.

After his death, I was told not to grieve but to look forward. I felt abandoned, alone, lost and bereft. Like other children with similar traumas, I adopted a story of pain, shame, suffering, and worthlessness that negatively influenced my self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth.

In my teens, I was raped twice and experienced a mass shooting at my college.  By the time I graduated college at 20, I was on my own and in deep emotional pain.  The traumas I had experienced had accumulated and weighed me down more than I realized.  After getting in a car accident where I drove off a cliff into the Colorado River, I had a Divine Intervention which pointed me in the direction of seeking a healing path for myself and to share with others.

In 1993, I started studying energy healing, spirituality, and psychology.  I have studied with Reverend Rosalyn L. Bruyere and Master Ken Weintrub of the Healing Light Center Church (HLCC).  At HLCC, I studied theology, healing arts, and the sacred mysteries.  In 2023, I got ordained as Reverend and became a minister of prayer and healing through HLCC’s seminary, the Crucible Program.

In addition, I earned my Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art in 2001, combining the fields of psychology, spirituality, and visual art to innovate a transformative healing art modality that reconnects body and spirit, in order to heal the existential pain that comes from feeling disconnected from Spirit.

I have been teaching people of all ages since 2000.  I have been an instructor at the University of Arizona, taught Visual Art at Coconino Community College, and taught art and Elementary Education from Moab, UT to Shenzhen, China.