Women filled with self-love, owning their own power and their truths is a gift of divine light to the world. I am passionate about supporting women to love themselves, live freely, and be true to themselves.
My own healing journey has been life changing…
Since childhood, I was the one people came to share their stories, their problems and I was the one that could feel it all so viscerally as if it were my own. Strangers would open up to me at every turn. I was an old soul in a wee body, with the biggest most tender giving heart. I had a deep capacity for emotional strength and optimism, even at a young age, yet much of it was used to support others and a lot of my self-worth came from being that “rescuer” for all the aching hearts around me. A deep and undeniable desire to help make our world a happier, more loving place, has been alive within me since my early childhood. All my life I could sense the beauty and pain in others, places and even the land itself.
After years of exploring, remembering, learning and healing, I know that I have lived many lifetimes as a healer, teacher, leader and my soul's journey has been vast. A large part of my healing journey has been to nurture my true nature as an Empath, Spiritual Being, Intuitive Healer and to honour these aspects of myself throughout this life and to be the loving leader I am.
My passion for spirituality, yoga, meditation, mysticism, hands on healing, energy, faeries, and ancient civilizations were often kept on the sidelines. Only “allowed” to be framed as interests, and certainly not a viable career path. I believed this was possible for others, but not for me. Yet these are the things that constantly lit me up!
As part of my own journey of growth, and discovery of my truths, my soul purpose and gifts, I found my way as a “Nurturer. Helper. Teacher.” I am a great OT and I have varied traditional OT experiences over my nearly 21 years of practice. This path helped me expand my worldview, compassion and confidence. I love the profession. The focus on what is meaningful to people, and client-centered practice, is key to this heart based profession. True to my Capricorn nature, I am a very practical, thorough, and dedicated human. This profession has been a great fit for me, as it weaves wellness through all aspects of the person, their environment and their personal desires!
Even within the rewarding nature of this work, there was something more. I felt called to explore the “Spiritual” aspects of client work and how this immeasurably influences quality of life ~ connection to self and provides people with a unique depth of meaning to life.
Already years deep in my personal exploration of complementary and spiritually based healing modalities, I took my leap into the training realm. A yogi since my late teens, meditation in my university years, shamanic journey work, drumming, and women’s circles expanded into Yoga Teacher Training, Life Coaching, Reiki, courses focused on Empowerment, Psychic development, Shamanism, and the Divine Feminine. All of which coincided with the dissolution of my 16 year relationship (11 years married), with two young children, and starting my life over in my mid-thirties.
It has been a path of courage. Cycles of death and rebirth. I chose to learn how to truly love and honour myself, no matter how painful it might be along the way. A journey of joyful discovery, facing fears, transforming self-doubt and low self-worth into trust, self-respect and honouring truths. Once I began to truly listen to my inner wise woman, the Goddess within led me home to myself. As I cultivated my own sacred relationship with the Divine within, and without, I knew I was on my true path and one that would lead me to help change the lives of other women in this same way, some day. Here I am. Arms open to you Sistar.
I now feel deep belonging. I belong to me, to the Multiverse, to the Goddess/Spirit. I have a sacred spiritual connection to life and am fascinated by the infinite potential for healing, wholeness and wellness.
I prioritize and nurture these treasured parts of myself and the soul experience of human life. I love and accept myself more than I ever have. I devote regular time tuning into my intuition. I live with intention, joy, courage and self-compassion. I am living consciously. I am awake to my soul journey within my human life. This transformation is what I wish for all women, like me who were buried underneath other’s dreams, needs, wishes and their own unconscious patterning keeping them feeling small and lacking trust in themselves. I am devoted to helping women connect with their intuitive knowing, energy, embodied living, their own place within the magical web of life and their sacred divine feminine leader within.
I help women by supporting you to shed your blankets of fear, shame, guilt, doubt and listen to your inner knowing.
As you do, you awaken to your light, love floods your life and your gift of BEING WHO YOU TRULY ARE blesses everyone around you. On this healing path with me, women gain insight, build resilience and compassion. They take empowered action, transform old patterns and become the inspiration for others to live their authentic lives.
Your healing helps others heal. I know it is possible to heal, to grow, to discover, to resurrect, or birth, parts of yourself that you only dreamed of, or didn’t even know, or believe, were there. I am living proof.
I am dedicated to the return of the Divine Feminine way of curiosity, fluid change, sensual awake living, reconnecting to nature, to cycles, to the embodiment and celebration of the DARK & the LIGHT present within everyone and life itself.
Professional Background, Trainings & Certificates
1997 - BA - Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS
2000 - BHScOT - Occupational Therapy, McMaster University
2009 - 200Hr Yoga Instructor Certification - Hatha Vinyasa
Therapeutic Yoga Approach Studio, TAYS, Halifax, NS
2009 - Pre/Post Natal Certification, TAYS, Halifax, NS
2010 - Radiant Child Certification Level 1 & 2, Sue Ducros, TAYS, Halifax, NS
2013 - 500Hr Yoga Instructor Training for Health & Wellbeing,
108 Yoga, Nancy Hunter, Halifax, NS
2013 - Yoga Life Coach Certification, Deborah Williamson LLC, Bail, Indonesia
2003 - Level 1 Reiki, Dublin Ireland
2014 - Level 2 Reiki, Susie Clouston, Mahone Bay, NS
2015 - Level 3 Reiki, Susie Clouston, Mahone Bay, NS
2014 - "Mindfulness Counselling Strategies- Activiating Compassion & Regulation" 2 Day workshop, Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute Inc., Halifax NS
2015 - Angel Psychic Development, 1 Day Course, Susie Clouston, Mahone Bay, NS
2015 - "Psychology of the Chakras", 7 Day Intensive, Anodea Judith, Kripalu Centre for Yoga & Health, Massachusetts, USA
2017 - Masters Level Reiki, Janet Harrison, Halifax NS
2017 - Masters Level Reiki, Susie Clouston, Scotland, UK
2017 - Firewalk Instructor Certification & Motivational Coach Training,
Sundoor®, School of Transpersonal Education, Scotland, UK
2017 - Chakradance® Facilitator Certification, Chakradance® On-Line Training
2017 - "Behind the Veil - Spirit Communication", 1 Day Workshop, Phyllis Laforest, Enfield, NS
2018 - "Very Brief Coaching Skills for Busy Professional in Health Care",
Solution Focused Coaching, Haesun Moon, CAOT, Halifax, NS
October 2019 Liberation Breathwork Intensive® Level 1 Training, Sondra and Marcus Ray
October 2019 Spiritdance Breathwork Practitioner Training, Sundoor®, School of Transpersonal Education, Scotland, UK
I want all women to feel acknowledged, validated, and inspired to take responsibility for themselves and their lives. I want women to have guidance and support as they navigate the alchemical experience of healing. I help women realize they are not alone, that they belong to themselves first and to a greater sisterhood of women who are also learning how to liberate and love themselves more. Unpatterning, igniting, reconnecting, reclaiming, and nurturing self-love and empowerment is a healing journey. One I can whole-heartedly relate to, and deeply support other women through.
The Wise Women Awakening Course is a way to help more women connect to their inner wisdom, grow and heal. Created for you, with a self-paced design to honour your needs and life schedule.