From a young age, I was intrigued by the therapeutic potential of movement and nutrition. Back in the late 90s, when the idea of "wellness" was still far from mainstream in my small Virginia town, I embarked on a series of somatic experiments. My middle school science fair projects explored the effects of yoga asana and vitamin supplementation.

Today, my perspective on movement and nutrition as forms of medicine remains. However, I no longer advocate for strictly natural approaches to health and well-being. Instead, I embrace an integrative approach that considers all available resources. This includes allopathic, earth, and energy medicines, as well as social medicine, such as touch, laughter, and engaging in communal activities.

My mission is to nourish the entirety of our biopsychosocial beings, ensuring that we thrive on every level.

On a 2015 visit to Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary in Floyd, Virginia, the honeybee captured my heart forever, inspiring me to embark on the journey to becoming a beekeeper. It wasn’t the allure of endless honey that seduced me, but the honeybee’s generous and loving spirit.

After studying conventional, natural, biodynamic, regenerative, and Darwinian beekeeping practices for 5 years, in 2020 I felt ready to take on the sacred responsibility of stewarding hives of my own. Throughout this time, the honeybee has enriched my life and continues to teach me every time I slow down enough to listen. She teaches me about community, sacrifice, curiosity, play, pain, pleasure, grief, joy, healing, sustainment, and above all, the radical act of love as an action.

In my calling, I identify with the role of a worker honeybee, who learns and performs every care task essential for the hive's well-being during her lifetime. In a reciprocal exchange, nurturing the hive nurtures her skills and capabilities.

Like the honeybee, I am devoted to imparting the realms I touch with warmth and loving action.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the muscle.

✧ proverb attributed to the Asaro tribe of Papua New Guinea

My work bridges evidence-based knowledge and embodied experience, influenced by a wide array of practices, including bodywork, yoga, meditation, breathwork, somatics, and biodynamic beekeeping. I draw inspiration from various philosophies and frameworks, including reproductive justice, dignity in death, emergent strategy, pleasure activism, permaculture, regenerative systems design, cultural emergence, interpersonal neurobiology (the neuroscience of therapeutic relationship), resilience training, and trauma-informed care.

I believe that quality care has the power to transform the world.

I derive tremendous satisfaction from finding simple solutions to complex problems and creating conditions for the flourishing of individuals, communities, and ecosystems. I have a deep passion for designing care strategies.

I’m sustained by a commitment to proactive self-care and earth care, nurturing the relationships that nourish me, and my spiritual taproot into the spectacular potential for our world when we value all expressions of life.

Trust is the key that unlocks care work’s full potential. In the spirit of trust-building and transparency, some of my identities and experiences that influence my social context are: white, queer, non-binary woman (I use she/ they pronouns and I embrace the term “non-binary” as my inner experience of myself and ”woman” as a political identity), in recovery, divorced, child-free, survivor of sexual violence, neurodivergent, middle class background, college-educated, English-speaking U.S. citizen, bilingual in English and Spanish through formal education, not physically or visibly disabled, and living with thin privilege.