How many times have you experienced the repeating cycle?

You feel the call again.

So you find a new teacher, a new tool, a new therapist, a new practice, a new community and you devote yourself completely.

But for the love…

Something still feels lacking, a little off, dare I say even a tad cult-ish.

You try harder to find more answers and how to’s but it feels like you’re trusting yourself less than when you started.

Now what?

The gift of being highly sensitive is how easily you can see through the eyes of others.

And the curse of being highly sensitive is how easily you can see through the eyes of others.

The difference is the relationship you have with your own heart.

If you’re not listening to the wisdom of your own heart, recognizing the metaphors and patterns of your own life, making space to hear your own voice — you can spend your entire life following someone else’s directions and never feeling at home in you.

It’s time to tend to this relationship when-

• No matter how many charts you check, readings you get, or teachers you follow you continue to feel a little stuck and desperate for answers.

• Your sensitivities feel exhausting and disorienting rather than empowering and clarifying.

• The further you get down the spiritual path the more black and white your world is becoming, you find yourself picking apart every decision you make.

• You’re not exactly sure what your own voice even sounds like anymore.

• You’re experiencing writers block or a feeling of atrophy in your creativity.

• You’re experiencing extreme fatigue, chronic illness, or a resurgence of old physical ailments.

• You feel connected to the spiritual realms but then again… you wonder if you’re just making it up or if its worth the risk of what others may think.

• You dream of sharing something beautiful with the world but aren’t quite sure what it is exactly or how you’d go about it.

• You’ve left appointments with far too many conventional talk therapists, medical doctors, psychics, healers, and bodyworkers and thought, “Do they realize that they talked the entire time? Did I really just pay to have them unload on me for an hour? What is happening!?”

• You seem to have a knack for making certain people feel flustered, defensive, and combative without even speaking. You try not to take it personal but you worry something is inherently wrong with you.

• You’re a caregiver, teacher, mental health or healing practitioner whose vibrancy and passion is dwindling. You find yourself exhausted and resentful where you used to feel so much joy and fulfillment.

When you’re not in your heart, you get stuck in your head.

The head can easily feel lost and panicked. It screams and spins its tires. It’s full of shoulds and if onlys. It can’t see what’s possible, it can only see what’s been. It just wants to assure safety. It needs definitive answers and diagnoses. It’s always trying to control things and avoid discomfort by prioritizing norms over growth, logging and executing only what it believes is relevant and safe within those boundaries.

Your heart speaks to you through metaphors, patterns, and feelings in the body— a constant game of hot or cold. Your heart wants to play even through pain. It never doubts that you are unconditionally loved and connected so it’s not worried about making sense or breaking outside of societal norms. It holds every record. It knows where your stories come from, the ones you tell yourself, and the ones that create your waking world. It reveals what’s most important right now and where your spirit actually is on the map of your life, and it does this best when there is a sense of compassion, playfulness, and wonder. It does not interpret time or space in a linear fashion. It is a master of connection, connection with others and connections spanning lifetimes — there’s no distance too wide. The heart is the Alchemist. It will guide you through seemingly mundane memories and moments until you recognize them as the gold they are. When your heart isn’t being heard, it calls you back through gut feelings, dreams, depression, anxiety, failure, loss, break-ups, betrayals, sickness— you name it.

My work is about nurturing this relationship and bringing it to the forefront so you can study all the things, embrace all your gifts, and help all the people from a place of integrity and love rooted deeply in yourself.