The ❤️ Behind Heart Wisdom
I created Heart Wisdom from the same place I now guide others toward, a deep return to the body.
I didn’t start this work from a textbook or a perfect plan, I started it because my own body, spirit, and soul demanded something different.
I was doing the work, helping others through massage, but something in me felt unfinished. The same clients came back with the same pain, and I knew we weren’t getting to the heart of it.
I wasn’t satisfied with surface-level healing, and I could feel my clients weren’t either.
When the Body Speaks Loudly, You Listen
This is the story of how I became my own healer
and how I came to guide you to becoming your own healer.
I May Not Know What I Want, But I Do Know What I Don’t Want
Like many, I entered college without a clear sense of purpose, just following a path laid out for me by others.
I quickly realized I was deeply disconnected from what truly mattered.
The stress of school, a lack of discipline, poor habits, and the general pressures of the college lifestyle left me burned out and on academic probation.
One day, stuck in a sea of red brake lights and stop lights on my way home from a long day of school it hit me, everything in my body was screaming stop.
I needed to break away and reconnect with myself. The exact message was “If this is what society is, then I want no part of it. Wasting my life in daily traffic, pushing forward in school for the sake of having a degree. This isn’t what the human experience was meant to be… I may not know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want”
My First Initiation - The Call to ‘Walk North’
That message led me to the Pacific Crest Trail. I felt it in every cell of my body: I would attempt to hike 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada.
That journey became my first initiation. Living outdoors, pushing my physical and mental limits, and walking for months with people from all over the world gave me perspective, clarity, and space to hear something deeper.
I began to glimpse my North Star: to understand the body, how to care for it, how to heal it, and how to thrive through it.
But I didn’t finish the trail that first year. I returned home with several injuries: overuse, strain, and the toll of thousands of miles on foot.
That’s when I went back to see my massage therapist, a woman trained in the Berry Technique. She wasn’t your average practitioner. Her work was so precise, so effective, it felt like she was literally putting my body back together in ways I’d never known were possible.
That experience opened my eyes to the power of bodywork done right, how just one skilled pair of hands, guided by deep knowledge and intuition, could bring someone home to themselves.
Rooted in the Body: Choosing a Holistic Path
Healed and inspired, I re-enrolled in college, intending to become a nurse, or at least explore what the medical system could offer.
But the deeper I went, the more I realized Western medicine wasn’t the path for me. With parents who were medicinal hemp farmers, I was already questioning why hospitals ignored natural, time-honored approaches to healing. I knew my path had to be holistic.
Eventually, I returned to the PCT to finish what I hadn’t yet completed. That’s when I met my (now former) partner.
Not long after, we enrolled in massage school and launched our first practice, Grand Rising Wellness. It was a pivotal season of growth, but also one of deep challenge.
For 3.5 years, I lived with unexplained, intense menstrual pain. It started the moment I entered that relationship and ended the moment I left. I had convinced myself it was “right,” even as my body said otherwise. I just didn’t yet know how to listen.
The Body Always Knows…
This pain ultimately became one of my greatest teachers. It brought me back to the core truth I now live by: the body always knows. Learning the patterns of stress, nutrition, hormonal health, and emotional suppression revealed that my cycle pain wasn’t random. It was my body demanding that I align with my truth and purpose. Today, I live pain-free by listening to those messages, caring for my nervous system, honoring my cycle, and giving my body what it needs to thrive.
From Addiction to Embodiment
Throughout this time, I also confronted my dependence on cannabis, a habit that had grown through college and the extreme physical demands of trail life. I had used it to numb pain, avoid discomfort, and escape what my body was trying to tell me, but only told myself that it was a harmless habit.
As a student of the CHEK Institute, I was taught to embody what I teach, not just repeat it. That meant facing the hard truth: I wasn’t fully walking my talk. I knew that my habit was the reason for a cascade of many other bad habits & symptoms.
Therefore, I made a soul-level commitment to quit cannabis for 3 years and 3 months. This was the beginning of my second initiation. At the time of writing, I’m nearly two years into that promise. This choice alone has transformed my clarity, energy, intuition, and leadership as a coach and practitioner.
And then came the postcard.
Out of nowhere, a postcard arrived in the mail from the Upledger Institute, the pioneering school of CranialSacral Therapy, offering courses nearby. Everything in me screamed: take the class.
I was starting to burn out on massage, seeing the same client complaints return again and again. Despite giving my best, massage often felt like a band-aid. I could feel the system itself was misaligned, clients often demanded deep work in the exact area of pain, when the source was often elsewhere. I found myself explaining again and again that ‘backbody’ pain might be caused by a tight ‘frontbody’, shaped by posture, stress, or trauma. I was craving depth and ready for something more.
I mentioned the class to my partner at the time, who dismissed it. I let it go.
Then, a month later, the same exact postcard arrived again. The same internal voice, louder this time, told me to say yes.
Again, I brought it up. Again, my partner talked me out of it. I felt conflicted, but let it go once more…
The Invitation I Couldn't Refuse…
The very next day, I received a last-minute, new client from out of state, who I’d previously turned away due to a scheduling mix-up. Thirty minutes into her session, she paused and told me I felt incredibly intuitive, then asked if she could guide me through a CranialSacral session right there on the table. I immediately said yes. She began to talk me through a technique, but before she could finish, my hands were already there. I had intuitively landed exactly where the body was asking for contact.
That moment cracked me wide open. I knew, this is it. This is the work I’m meant to do.
This was the beginning of my third initiation.
That day I realized something profound: my intuition had always been right. It was time to start trusting it, even when the world around me didn’t agree. I signed up for the course and never looked back.
Where I Finally Felt Home
On the second day of class, during lunch break, I took massage off my service menu permanently.
CranialSacral Therapy gave me everything I had been missing: subtlety, stillness, reverence, and the power to listen to the body on a soul-deep level.
Since then, I’ve taken 9 advanced courses with the Upledger Institute and continue to evolve my sensitivity and skill through this profound modality. Each class has deepened my ability to tune in to the body’s inner wisdom, creating space for true healing to emerge.
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My Healing Became My Offering
These experiences, & the choice to follow my inner knowing, led to the creation of Heart Wisdom. My work now helps others reconnect with their own inner compass.
I offer CranialSacral Therapy and Bodywork, Holistic Lifestyle Coaching, Breathwork, Emotional Transmutation, and Theta Healing. These tools have transformed my life, and I’m here to guide others to their own freedom, clarity, and embodiment.
I believe the second part of my purpose is to walk others home, to help people live pain-free, reconnect with their body’s messages, and awaken to their most radiant, empowered, and aligned selves.
Credentials
Certifications
Licensed Massage Therapist
I completed a 740 hour Accelerated Massage school through Sage School of Massage & Esthetics.
Associates Degree of Sience
Currently in my last term to complete this.
Split time between Western Oregon University & Central Oregon Community College.
CranialSacral Therapy
Trained and TA-ed with the Upledger Institute.
Specific trainings listed below, & detailed information on CST in Depth page!
C.H.E.K. Institute
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Holistic Lifestyle Coaching 1 & 2 (HLC)
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Integrated Movement Science 1 (IMS)
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Holistic Health & Performance for Women
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Plus all prerequisites
Breathwork Facilitator Training
Trained with Alchemy of Breath completing 400 hours.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage
Trained with Klose Training
Pelvic Floor Therapy
Trained with Dr. Kathryn Kloos under Integrative Pelvic Health.
Visceral Manipulation
Trained with the Barral Institute
Visceral Manipulation 1 (VM1); Assessment of Structural Relationships between Viscera, and their Fascial or Ligamentous Attachments to the Musculoskeletal System
Listening Techniques 1 (LT1):
An Integrative Approach to Evaluation
CranialSacral Therapy
Core Courses:
CranioSacral Therapy 1 (CS1); Assessment of Central Nervous System and Fascia for Full Body Treatment Protocol
CranioSacral Therapy 2 (CS2); Moving Beyond the Dura for Assessing Acute and Chronic Conditions
SomatoEmotional Release 1 (SER1); Full Range of CranioSacral Therapy Tools for Supporting Trauma Resolution
SomatoEmotional Release 2 (SER2); Intention, Inner Physician and Dialogue - Deepening Principles and Practice of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy
Advanced Courses:
SomatoEmotional Release Technique Mastering the Inner Physician (SERTIP)
Cranial Sacral Dissection
The Brain Speaks 1 (TBS1); CranioSacral Therapy Techniques for Listening to and Working with the Brain
CranioSacral Applications for Conception, Pregnancy and Birthing 1 (CCPB1)
CranioSacral Therapy Applications for Concussion (CSTAC)