I guide people back to solid ground,
back to their aliveness,
and back into direct relationship with life, learning to participate in what is unfolding.

We are always in relationship with a living, unfolding reality.In the noise of daily life, it’s easy to forget that and begin to live as if we are separate from it. That forgetting can leave us feeling off, disconnected, or out of alignment.

My focus is on remembrance and participation. 

Much of this work happens at thresholds, moments of initiation when life is asking something new of us. Times of change, disruptions, or quiet unraveling, when what once fit no longer does, and something new is trying to emerge.

Often this begins as a subtle sense that something more alive is calling, but in the pull of responsibility, identity, and routine, we can slip back into familiar patterns before they can fully stay in relationship with what is unfolding.

This is often the difference between participating in our own becoming, or abandoning it for what is known and expected. 

Thresholds often arrive when a life that once made sense no longer feels fully alive. Sometimes there is a restlessness or quiet satisfaction. Sometimes there is a sense of loss or even hopelessness, not as an endpoint, but as a signal that the old ways of orienting are no longer holding. 

My work is to help people meet these moments with more awareness, honesty, and care, so they can move toward a life that feels more whole, more grounded, and more fully alive. A life rooted in deeper relationship with themselves, their lives, and what is moving through them.

For most of human history, these kinds of transitions were recognized and supported by cultural structures. Today, many of that scaffolding are gone, but the need for them hasn’t disappeared.

So we find other ways.

Sometimes that looks like conversation or reflection. Sometimes it is as simple as a Wilderness Walk -- time set aside to notice, listen, and be in relationship with the living world.  Sometimes it takes the form of a more intentional rite of passage: A backpacking trip. A considerate challenge. A conscious crossing.

What matters is not the form, but how it is held; the intention, the depth of attention, and the care with which it is integrated afterward.

I’ve spent years guiding wilderness experiences and facilitating reflection for individuals and groups. I’m trained as a Wild Mind and Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide. I’m also an ordained interfaith minister.

My work draws from nature-based traditions, deep listening, and the understanding that we are not separate from the living world, but participants within it, and much of suffering comes from forgetting that participation.

I help people move through life’s thresholds with greater clarity, steadiness, and connection to themselves, their lives, and the wider web of life.

This is not about fixing people or amplifying intensity for its own sake. It is about supporting a more honest, grounded, and lasting relationship with oneself and with life as it is actually unfolding. 

This work is guided by what I think of as soul: the unique spark and deeper knowing within each person.

Often the difficulty is not that something is wrong with us, but that we’ve become shaped by ways of living that pull us away from our own depth, from what matters, and from a felt sense of belonging within life itself.

The people I work with are often navigating moments of transition, whether visible on the outside or quietly unfolding within. They want to stay in participation with life more fully and honestly, rather than living by expectation, momentum, or disconnection from their own becoming.

If you’re interested, I write a weekly note for people in these kinds of moments. It’s reflective and grounded, with a simple weekly invitation meant to help you find your footing in the midst of everyday life, so you can listen more closely to what life is asking of you, and respond.

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