I’m a certified Red School Menstruality Mentor who is here to guide you through reclaiming your most authentic, wildest feminine power held in your menstrual cycle and conscious menopause.

I’m also a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor with the Kerala Ayurveda Academy and love to weave in life-giving Ayurvedic wisdom to help bring balance and meaning to our daily and seasonal routines.

I’m a ritualist and sacred wisdom keeper. I love creating rituals for myself and others to help move through certain thresholds in life. 

All my life I felt unrooted and like I didn’t belong anywhere. In my adult life, I desperately grasped at anything that I felt gave meaning and ritual, such as Judaism, new age spirituality, and so on. I roamed all over the country and all over the world, so hungry for the stimulation and beauty that other cultures gave me. 

My life was moving along splendidly, and I eventually found myself living my European dream in Germany.

Then I turned the corner on my 40s. And everything changed. 

Suddenly it was as if the rug was pulled out from under my feet, and I couldn’t cope. My nervous system was shot. Intense anxiety I had never known flooded through me. I had been working enormously hard at a German company, then I just couldn’t cope anymore. I experienced an epic burnout that led into a massive five-year period of an initiatory process that wiped out literally everything in my life. 

But there was something about that liminal time that built my muscle for resilience and living with the unknown. I had no job, no home, no partner, no responsibilities, and it was frightening yet I was gloriously free and untethered. 

Without that open space, I probably wouldn’t have had the awakening I did, belonging to myself, to a spirituality that for the first time deeply fit me and felt right…a spirituality that is deeply rooted in the feminine, in the cycles of the seasons and the earth, in claiming my own ancestral lineage from England, Scotland, and Germanic Mennonites. I awakened to my cyclical rhythms and cherished my cycle and moon blood.

But as I coasted past my mid-40s, there was still something that wasn’t quite right.  

Then one day when I was 46, I happened to be listening to a women’s summit and without much initial interest, tuned into a session with Lara Briden about perimenopause. I was stunned. That was the elephant in the room of my 40s life. Suddenly everything clicked into place.

I was frankly terrified about menopause looming ahead of me and kept my head in the sand. It took me months of grieving the eventual loss of my cycles that I had just come to love.

But through the work of Lara Briden and Red School’s teaching on menopause as an initiation, I’ve learned the framework of what’s happening and what to expect. I came to actually very much love this rite of passage and claim it for my own. Now I can’t wait to be on the other side. 

So now I’m deeply in my menopause rite of passage, resting as much as I can. I’m dreaming into the second half of my life and am starting this space as a small seed for the future. I don’t have capacity for much right now, but will share my writing on topics of menstruation, menopause, rituals, Ayurveda, and earth-based spirituality through the seasons of the year. I will also hold some in-person retreats and events. 

I hope my story gives you inspiration for your own life.