I’m an Episcopal priest, clinical social worker, and wife and mother of three children. I’m formally trained in spiritual direction, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and breathwork. I bring over twenty-five years of experience helping people tend to their inner life in a variety of settings including hospice, public mental health, parish ministry, and school chaplaincy.

“I haven’t met a faith tradition that I haven’t fallen in love with,” wrote Barbara Brown Taylor. I concur. I grew up Southern Baptist, spent my adolescence as an Evangelical, briefly crushed on Roman Catholicism in college, and finally landed in the Episcopal Church and Anglicanism. For four years in my twenties, I lived and worked in an ecumenical, inter-racial Benedictine community in Richmond, VA where I was formed by contemplatives, charismatics, those committed to justice and the Social Gospel—and many saints who were all of these things at once. Benedictine spirituality—rooted in rhythms of prayer and work, hospitality, community, and stability—has anchored me ever since.

In 2010, I married a filmmaker and moved to Los Angeles where I helped found a school in Hollywood and served as its chaplain for fourteen years. My affection for Jewish sacred story and practice, the spiritual-but-not-religious, and committed atheists deepened immensely in these years. There’s nothing like the spiritual lives of teenagers in LA to keep you on your toes.

I thought I had pretty much arrived at wherever I was going to get to in this life. Then four years ago, much to my surprise, I experienced a Kundalini awakening and spiritual emergence. All of a sudden what I had always thought was true and real was somehow even more true, and more real. Longstanding depression and anxieties lifted, my mind cleared, my heart softened. Though I remain rooted in my tradition, I was set on a path of studying Indian saints and gurus, particularly those of Kashmir Shaivism and Indian goddess traditions. The Benedictine monk, Fr. Bede Griffiths, paved this way in the last century and has been a welcome guide on the path of integrating Christian and Indian wisdom.

Practically speaking, I’ve learned—and am learning—how to encounter God in the body, and of a deeper awareness of what it means to love God in mind, heart, and strength. In prayer and practice, I’m focused on recovering the deeply somatic aspects of the Christian tradition, which have always been there though in need of some recovery—or at least a bit of dusting off.

I work with churches to help them tend the fires of a living and vibrant faith. I work with individuals from all faith traditions and none who wish to connect more deeply with the wisdom already within them.