My Story

I was raised in the Tucson mountains. Everything about the family home was unconventional.  Each of my parents ran a home business: my mom, a salsa company touting the countrie’s first gourmet hot sauce, and my father, a holistic dental practice built on the other side of the house.  Naturally, there was a constant stream of colorful characters coming and going, some who worked there and some who lived there.  It was inspiring growing up with parents who were both incredibly open, loving people, and who crafted their lives to be uniquely their own.

Being an empathic child had a wide array of benefits and challenges.  Fortunately, my heightened sensitivities were nurtured by constantly being encouraged to express myself, something I am grateful for to this day.  At 11-years-old, I got my first guitar and began writing songs.  Everything I felt was then channeled into singing and writing.  With the many trials and tribulations that came throughout my life, I’m immensely grateful for music being my sanctuary and way of healing.  

My father was not only a holistic dentist, but also was a  cranial osteopathic practitioner.  As a small child, he would invite me to work on people with him.  He would ask me to place my hands on someone and tell him where in the body I could feel a pull or blockage.  I was thrilled when I learned I could locate strain patterns in people’s bodies – it felt like I was honing a super hero power, and naturally I took it very seriously.  I’ve always admired my father’s work because he was, and is, able to get people out of pain.  I wanted to be able to help people too, but in my own way.  I felt a burning need to help humanity, and at the time believed that my only way to do that was through music. 

I moved to Los Angeles after I felt I had done all that I could do musically in Tucson.  During the following years, my gift would randomly kick in and I’d be able to see past events that had happened to someone, or circumstances presently going on in their lives, and I’d talk with them about it.  My sensitivity allowed me to deeply feel environments and people around me, and it has been very useful; in fact, it has saved me from some very dangerous situations. 

I did a lot with my music in L.A., and it and continues to be an exciting journey.  I never expected a different door to open that could change my life this significantly.  About eight years ago, I decided to become an esthetician to help support myself as an artist.  Little did I know that something extraordinary would happen to me at beauty school that would change.  A woman came into the school for a facial.  She was extremely aggressive, rude, and her energy felt like a lightning storm.  With my hands on her face, I started to see images of her in my mind.  I saw a painting and asked if she was a painter.  She said she went to art school, but didn’t paint anymore.  Then I realized that the intense energy coming from her was fear, not anger, and that she was terrified about something.  I saw something wrong with her heart.  I asked her about it, and, as it turned out, the woman was scheduled to have surgery on her heart in two weeks.  I saw the procedure and knew that it would go well.  That visit ended in many tears, and a deep feeling of connection and love between us.  I remember that day so clearly because it was the day when my gift fully revealed itself.  I later realized it was the union of three things:  the ability to feel into people, like I learned from my father as a child, the way I’d see pictures in my mind like when I write songs, combined with my hands touching someone.  

After that day in beauty school, the door was open and I was getting information about people everywhere I went.  It was a new, incredible world to me.  The more I read people, the more I learned about how to best help support them.  Then something rattled me and caused me to stop in my tracks.  I was performing a show with my band one night and I saw that the boy sitting in the front row was thinking about killing himself.  I couldn’t finish the show fast enough, and as soon as we were done, I rushed to his side to tell him that I knew what he was thinking of doing to himself and why it wasn’t the right choice.  We had an important conversation, and I was glad for it, but not being able to stop the bombardment of input daily was overwhelming, so I decided to stop.  I turned it all off – as best I could – for over a year.  Eventually, I was introduced to a powerful see-er who taught me how to turn on and off my “seeing.”  Once I learned how to do that, I felt like I could begin helping others again. 

During a Soul Session, I read information through energy.  It feels very matter of fact to me, no hocus pocus involved.  Many have asked if what I’m doing is Reki—no, I’ve never studied Reki nor any other kind of energy work, aside from the bit of Cranio I learned as a child.  Instead, I feel the chakras as the seven major energy centers in the body.  I can feel if a chakra is open or blocked because the temperature feels either hot, warm, or cold.  When I focus on someone, I can see images in my mind from their past, things that happened, both good or bad, and I can also see their present lives: what’s happening and how the past might be impacting the present.  I speak with my clients about what I feel and see, and then we work to shift things by removing anything that prevents them from moving forward and creating the kinds of lives they want.  “With awareness we can make a choice.”   It has been exciting for me to learn along with my clients about what’s truly possible for each one of us.  I feel incredibly blessed to be able to do this kind of work.  Within it, my deepest wish is very simple:  To uplift others and empower them to live incredible lives.  I am here to be of service in any way that I can.