My journey has always lived at the intersection of beauty, culture, design, and service.
I began my professional life in the creative industries, working in textiles and fashion design with brands like BCBG, Ralph Lauren and BRATZ dolls and later moving into integrated marketing for luxury advertising and the food and beverage industry- working on campaigns for L’Ermitage Hotel, Central Park West, Princess Cruises and other lifestyle and hospitality brands. For many years my work centered on how people experience beauty: through what we wear, the spaces we inhabit, the places we travel, the foods we eat and the stories that shape how we see ourselves.
But beneath that career was another calling. From a very young age I experienced spiritual events that gave me a sense that my life was meant to contribute to something beyond the material. I did not yet have language for what I was experiencing, and for a time, the knowing became distant.
An accident in my early twenties changed the direction of my life. What followed became a nearly three decade journey of healing, seeking, remembering and learning to listen and understand again.
Over those years, I explored many systems of spirituality, healing embodiment, consciousness, and various ancestral practices, continually searching for the solid ground I could sense was beneath what I was intuitively searching for. Learning about my Native North American ancestry, specifically Lipan Apache, became one of the most foundational revelations of that long journey. It gave context to experiences I had carried for much of my life and offered a deeper understanding of the ancestral medicine ways I was slowly remembering and learning how to responsibly tend.
What I had spent years searching for was not simply another spiritual system. I was searching for relationship-with ancestry, land, water, body, spirit, animal kin and the responsibilities that come with inheritance.
Today, I am a practicing ceremonialist, song keeper, ancestor medicine healer and threshold medicine guide.
My work today includes ancestral healing, rites of passage, ceremonial regalia design, home decor and much much more.
My early career was never separate from this path. Fashion taught me about embodiment, visual communication and identity & personal expression. Advertising taught me about story, perception, and the responsibility of influence. Food and Beverage and Hospitality taught me about land, gathering and nourishment. Ancestral medicine has taught me to bring those offerings back into relationship with something older: service and responsibility to the greater web of life.
I believe humanities greatest evolution will come not from abandoning the past, but from healing our relationship with it-remembering what is worthy of carrying forward, transforming what should no longer be passed to future generations, and creating ways of living that our descendants will be grateful to receive.
This is the work I have returned to.
And it is to date, my greatest inheritance.
