How I Work
Decolonizing Ourselves
Decolonization on a macro level involves dismantling systems of oppression. It involves activism and legal reform in areas like indigenous sovereignty, Landback, reparations for slavery, prison abolition, mutual aid networks, affordable healthcare, environmental protections, and so much more. Decolonization also requires doing one’s own personal work. This is where I come in. Decolonization of oneself is a subtle, intimate, and intra-psychic process that involves disentangling from internalized oppression, feeling the embodiment of ways you may be perpetuating oppressive dynamics in your personal relationships, reconnecting with your spiritual nature, reclaiming sovereignty over your consciousness, and much more. I help you disentangle from colonial forces as you have internalized them for personal and collective liberation using the following methods:
Modalities:
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Attachment Work
As a licensed psychotherapist, I am always attuning to how your attachment system is showing up in our dynamic and in your awakening process. I bring these observations into the room for you to become aware of. I guide you into your direct, somatic experience of this, which can be phenomenologically intimate and confrontive at times. It can also dissolve old habit patterns of relating that no longer serve you, and make new ones possible! Colonialism makes us insecurely attached. Decolonizing ourselves is a matter of becoming securely attached.
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Shadow Work
Shadows refer to aspects of ourselves that we disown, and therefore come out in unconscious and destructive ways. Examples of stigmatized and rejected aspects of self include anger, sexuality, vulnerability, authority, and more. But shadows are not innately bad. They are vestiges of vital life-force energy that if owned, can be harnessed into creative power. I help you become aware of your shadows so you can harness them consciously and responsibly.
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Right Relationship
I help you navigate being in integrity with yourself, the natural world, other people, and Spirit. I help you see how your colonial conditioning may be impacting how you to show up in the world (male entitlement, white cowardice, feminine fawning, etc.,) and challenge you to alternatives. I support you in being active in liberatory movements.
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Building Capacity
I help you learn how to ground into forces of nature, community, and practices that create a stronger container for you to go into difficult material and to show up for life's challenges. Being a change-agent for collective liberation requires you to take a lot of responsibility and do hard things. A strong container of support will help build your capacity to show up!
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Discernment
I help you discern distortion, shadow, abuse, ego, addiction, or things that may be trying to distract you from your path. These forces may be coming from outside or inside of you! If they are coming from within, I help you disentangle from traps of the ego and self-sabatoging behaviors.
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Generative Conflict
Being a change-agent for collective liberation involves becoming really good at relationships, because relationships are the fabric by which we will overcome colonialism. Namely, becoming secure at responding to conflict. I help you apply relationship skills like moving toward conflict, having difficult conversations, taking accountability, and imagining creative repair for building resilient and adaptive relationships.
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Surrender
I help you trust exactly what is happening in your life as your ultimate teacher. I help you examine what your feelings and your situation are trying to show you. I help you create safe containers to go into your feelings safely, to glean the wisdom and growth that is there.
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Cultivate your relationship with Spirit:
Colonialism severed our awareness that we are first and foremost, spiritual beings having a human experience. I help you restore this awareness. I help you develop the perception and everyday practices to sense Spirit. I help you consult Spirit and your higher self to make decisions, and let that be the guiding force in your life.
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Gratitude
I help you develop a sense of gratitude and humility as foundational to how you walk in the world. This is a hugely protective, generative, and connective force.
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Self-Love
Self-love might sound vomitrocious, but it's the most badass thing anyone can do. I help you develop a compassionate and loving inner voice to hold all of your parts. It takes so much self love and bravery to look at yourself honestly, to see places that are usually defended, and take right action.
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Preparation and integration for psychedelic use
I help you navigate how to pursue psychedelics safely and with agency. I support you to use insights from expanded states of consciousness for shadow work, personal growth, spiritual awakening, and integration.
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Sharing resources
I am a lifelong student! I continue to engage in ongoing self-study of many topics such as spiritual emergence, interspecies communication, metaphysics, nonduality, neuroplasticity, and transformative justice, just to name a few. I love sharing these gems with interested parties for their own growth and inspiration.
Offerings
Psycho-spiritual Counseling
For those who are awakening spiritually who want to use those insights towards sacred activism and collective liberation. Also for justice activists who want to connect more deeply to the spiritual roots of their movement and explore their intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics within broader social and environmental dynamics.
Prayer and Community Circles
Monthly virtual prayer circles around the full moon. An opportunity listen and speak from the heart in community, and create an enhanced field of care, wisdom, and gratitude for personal and collective wellbeing. These events are free of charge. Community-Building Circles for connection, resilience, and conflict resolution in the Transformative Justice style.
Psychedelics and Social Justice
Conscious use of psychedelics to deepen engagement in justice work. Use of psychedelics to excavate personal shadow, and build capacity to show up in integrity in decolonization work. Building a transformative justice community rooted in ceremony and connection to Spirit. Expanding consciousness to imagine liberatory possibilities.
Psychotherapy Services
Somatic psychotherapy for survivors of sexual trauma who want to heal and move into sexual vitality. Support for codependency, anxiety, relational trauma, and building healthy relationships. Brain retraining coaching for those for whom chronic illness if part of their awakening journey
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anais Nin