About Me

We all have life moments when everything shifts —​​

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It might be grieving — a death, yes,
but also the quiet ache of something ending or changing.

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A relationship dissolving.  A role or identity reshaping.  A dream deferred.
A new beginning that’s harder than expected.
The stillness after the kids have left the nest.
The weariness of illness or aging.
The unraveling of something you once believed in.
Or a restlessness you can’t quite name.

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Grief can arise from any number of things — sudden or cumulative, acknowledged or invisible.

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Whatever it is — you’re not alone.

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My work lives in these moments:

Where grief, transition, and meaning-making intersect.
Where insight, intuition, and deep self-connection guide your next steps.

 

I’ve always been a meaning-weaver.
As a child, I wore my Scorpio belt buckle like a badge of mystery.
I read every Wizard of Oz book I could find, hungry for enchanted landscapes and brave heroines.
I followed symbols. Watched people. Flipped through encyclopedias and asked too many questions.
Even then, I sensed there was more beneath the surface.

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Adulthood brought its own layers — love, learning, wounding, growth.
In 1997, our firstborn daughter, Lauren, died of SIDS at four months old.
Her loss fractured everything — and deepened my devotion to living with intention.
Grief became a companion. Over time, a teacher.
In its wake came more children, reclaimed joy, more becoming.

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There were career shifts. Entrepreneurial turns.
Reinvention — and, ultimately, return.

 

Through it all, I’ve returned to the tools that have always whispered to me:

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• Astrology, for pattern and permission

• Nutrition, for grounding and resilience

• Archetypes and dreams, for story, depth, and symbolic truth

• Grief education and advocacy, to honor Lauren and offer others what was once given to me

 

What once helped me survive has become what I now offer —
not as a prescription, but as a practice.
A way of seeing. A way of choosing. A way of becoming.

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Experience & Influences

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For over two decades, I’ve spoken, facilitated, taught, offered counsel, and held space — across California and beyond — sharing what I’ve learned through grief work, nutrition and stress, astrology and archetypes, legal administration, and, more recently, generational insight.

 

My experience includes:

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• Grief education and long-standing advocacy within California’s SIDS community

• Local, statewide, and virtual SIDS parent support and support group facilitation

• Panel and keynote presentations — spanning SIDS and public health messages, nutrition and stress management, and legal leadership, including workplace culture

• One-on-one sessions using astrology and wellness as entry points — often evolving into deeper life integration, meaning-making, and transformation

• Wellness classes and group programs on food, stress, and sustainable nourishment ((including work as a Designs for Health practitioner)

• Ongoing study in astrology, archetypes, dreams, nutrition, and holistic practices

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These threads continue to shape how I offer counsel — with presence, nuance, and grounded practicality.

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What I Talk About

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• Archetypal Astrology:  How planetary patterns, mythic images, and natal blueprints can illuminate your path — not by predicting your fate, but by helping you re-story your life

• Grief-Informed Insight:  Reflections on loss in all its forms — and how grief, when tended, can shape identity, deepen compassion, and expand meaning

• Nourishment & the Body:  Conversations about what feeds and sustains us — including nutrition, recipes, rhythms, gardening, and the occasional unpacking of diet culture

• The Language of Symbols: Archetypes, dreams, and stories as guides — helping us reframe experience, reclaim inner wisdom, and relate with greater depth

• Generational Currents:  How generational dynamics shape us — across workplaces, families, and ancestral lines — and how awareness can shift patterns we’ve inherited

• The Practice of Choosing:  Because even when we don’t choose the circumstance, we still shape the meaning. Clarity, capacity, and compassion begin with choosing —
  again and again

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These themes aren’t just what I teach — they’re what I live.
If something here resonates, I’d be honored to connect.