Naming & Taming the Elephants in the Room
As a creative, nonlinear thinker, my lifelong skills are acknowledging the unspoken and transforming them into surprising assets, new skills, interesting opportunities, and a good story that’s big enough to live in for both individuals & groups. Curious?
The Path I took to get here
As a kid, my plan was to write and illustrate children’s books. That morphed into a career as a theatrical stage manager, telling stories onstage.
Years later, severe asthma – requiring that I lug a nebulizer machine everywhere – sent me to an acupuncturist, despite my needle phobia. Surprisingly, that lead to a master’s, then a doctorate in acupuncture and herbal medicine. Now I help people rewrite their stories about what it means to be alive, living in their bodies.
When COVID hit, I was the Director of Clinical Education at my alma mater, tasked with taking a 3,000 year old medicine online. The program I developed there has now evolved to become my STEALTHcare practice that uses individualized guided somatic meditations, storytelling, experiential work and coaching to help people heal physically, mentally, and emotionally, by creating their own healing stories from the inside out.
STEALTHwork is the companion practice to that, where I help individuals and their teams and companies embody their own story of truly belonging wherever they are, while building deeper connections between colleagues that are vital to the co-creation of healthier, more vibrant workplaces.
In that same arena, I am a speaker, facilitator, workshop instructor, and opener/closer for events and meetings.
My life’s work continues to be creating stories big enough for us all to live in.
So, where do the elephants come in?
They are the stories waiting to be re-imagined, retold and reintegrated.
Come. Let’s draw a bigger circle together.
Mission & Values
To Guide Us All To Tell Stories Big Enough To Live In
~ In Our Bodies, Our Relationships, Our Companies, & Our World ~
Forthrightness | Flexibility | Belonging
informed by Wisdom & Curiosity
Services For individuals, groups, & companies
Let me know how I can help you, your community, or your company.
Private Practice
ACUPUNCTURE | HERBS | QIGONG | SOMATIC TOUCH
This is a very individualized and personal medicine. Using these healing modalities, I will assist you in navigating the stress / trauma / recovery spectrum and how it plays out in your body, mind, and heart. This will empower you to live more fully into who you are throughout the entire arc of your life.
STEALTHcare
STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH
Using your own awareness within your body, I will guide you to remove the pain physical, mental, and emotional blocks, and help you remember how to tell stories big enough to live in. My tools include guided somatic meditations, practical homework, seasonal integration, plant medicine, wordsmithing, energy work, and soup recipes. I will supply you with tools you can keep and use for a lifetime.
STEALTHwork
GROUP STORYTELLING FOR A HEALTHY WORKPLACE
We begin with your mission, vision, and the purpose of your meeting or event. From there, I craft guided somatic meditations, storytelling, and experiential work to bring your staff into their own deeper sense of belonging while building stronger connections to their colleagues. My unique form of event facilitation, openings and closings, keynotes, and breakout sessions contain and deepen the experience for everyone involved, allowing for clearer engagement and collaboration across the board, while also “checking the wellness box”.
THE STORY MEDIC
SPEAKER | FACILITATOR | STORYTELLER | GUIDE
I am known for insightful storytelling in a wide variety of venues, including professional theatre, university classrooms, community settings, organizational events, and an endless number of kitchen tables. I bring fun, insight, learning, and a bigger, brighter experience to every speaking engagement. My audiences leave with a deeper knowledge about themselves, how they live and work, and their capacity to change the world.
OFFICIATE
CREATIVE CEREMONIES & CELEBRATIONS
I am here to assist you in the creation, facilitation, and performance of weddings, unweddings, commitment celebrations, funerals, naming and re-naming ceremonies for all ages & genders, retirement transitions, house and office warmings, and all those other important rites of passage for you, your loved ones, and your organizations. Let’s create something special.
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