Helping You Move Into Deeper Integrity With Your Soul

I cherish the early morning hour and fiercely protect both it and my solitude. I often start my day in darkness in silent meditation. I then light my lantern, steep some green tea, and journal until the sun rises.

As of spring 2026, I work at a nonprofit organization as a senior financial analyst. I blog, coach clients, and facilitate women’s circles outside of my day job. It sounds like a lot, but these outside endeavors energize me, and I truly love where I work. So while my plate is full, it’s in the best of ways. And, it’s why I only have the capacity to work with a very limited number of clients at any given time.

Being barefoot — seeing with my feet — whether I’m inside or (my favorite!) on a muddy, clay-packed trail.

Sitting in silent meditation. This is what got me through one of the most grueling dark nights of the soul imaginable.

Journaling by lantern light. Or just sitting in darkness.

Astrology
Sun: Leo
Moon: Libra
Rising: Cancer

Human Design
Type: Reflector
Profile: 1/3
Strategy: wait a lunar cycle

Assessments
Kolbe A: Quick Start
Meyers-Briggs: INFP
CliftonStrengths: (1) Connectedness, (2) Responsibility, (3) Strategic, (4) Developer, (5) Belief

I’m a barefoot, tree-hugging, Gen X hippie. I once sat in a tree slated for logging, got arrested for locking down in Senator McCain’s office on the 2000 New Hampshire primary election, and got run over by a motorcycle cop at the Battle of Seattle.

I’ve been invited into sacred sweat lodges in Minnesota and Arizona led by tribal community elders, smoked peace pipes and smudged in sacred ceremony, and joined the ex-wife of longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier on a five-day spiritual fast during his failed 2000 clemency bid.

I’ve drunk from a bottle of cheap wine concealed in a paper bag while in the bucket of a 48—December wind whipping through my hair—while riding the rails in the PNW.

I’ve been a short-term editor at the EarthFirst! Journal, worked as a union spy, and—a decade later—was on the receiving end of recruitment attempts by the CIA. My adult life is filled with not-so-common experiences that have shaped who I am today.

I am both an economist (by education) AND a staunch anti-capitalist. My transition from being a mindless ‘cog in the machine’ to adopting strong anti-capitalist sentiments began in 1998, when I forayed into environmental activism.

In the nearly 30 years since, being an anti-capitalist hasn’t always been at the forefront of my mind. And yet even during its greatest periods of dormancy, the niggling knowing that capitalism is exploitative as hell, is rotten to its core, and runs contrary to human nature has remained.

Like many anti-capitalists, I frequently struggle to reconcile my values with the realities of living in a capitalist world. I do my best — it’s all I can do! — while forgiving myself for all of those times I do it imperfectly.

I do my best to live in deep integrity with my soul. I am very conscientious about where I spend my money and what I spend my money on. For starters, I avoid most animal products, plastics (to the extent possible), and fast fashion.

I got rid of my car in 2020 and rely on my feet, my bike, or public transit to get around…unless I’m out with my partner because he owns a vehicle.

I seek out ethically, sustainably, and organically produced food, skin care products, clothing, and other items. For the record, it drives me absolutely bonkers that regenerative organic oats are packaged in plastic. Seriously?!?! But I digress…

The gist is that I do my best to consider the impact of my choices on others and Mama Earth, but I am not dogmatic about it. I’d rather live by quiet example than ‘be right.’ Unless we’re talking about AI. Then I may share my opinions!