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 continuously in relationship with a living, unfolding reality. We can forget that in the noise of our lives and start acting like we’re outside of it, leading us to feel off or worse. 
My focus is on remembering and participation. 

Much of this work happens through threshold moments.

These are moments of initiation; times when life is asking something of us that requires us to stop and listen more deeply. Moments of change, disruption, or quiet unraveling, when something no longer fits and something else is trying to emerge.

Often this begins when something more alive starts to call in a person’s life, but in the midst of daily demands, identity, and responsibility, they find themselves pulled back into familiar patterns before they can stay in relationship with what is emerging.

This is often the difference between staying in participation with our unfolding, or abandoning it for what is familiar and expected.

Often these thresholds arrive when the life we’ve been taught to want no longer feels fully alive. When success, busyness, or even a full life on paper still leaves us sensing that something essential is missing.

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—meaning more in relationship with themselves, their lives, and what is moving through them.

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

So we find our way differently.

Sometimes that looks like conversation or reflection. Sometimes it means stepping more fully into relationship with the living world through something as simple as a Day Walk, or time intentionally set aside to notice, listen, and pay attention. Sometimes it takes the form of a more intentional rite of passage.

A backpacking trip. A challenge. A deliberate crossing.

What makes it meaningful isn’t the activity itself, but how it’s held; the intention, the space to listen, the way it’s supported and 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 how to stay in 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.

I’m not interested in fixing people or creating intensity for its own sake. I’m interested in what helps someone come into a more honest and lasting relationship with themselves, their lives, and the deeper aliveness moving through them.

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

Often the challenge 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 honestly and wholeheartedly, rather than living by expectation, momentum, or disconnection from their own unfolding.

If you’re curious, I write a weekly note for people in those kinds of moments. It’s reflective, grounded, and includes a 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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