Category: Holistic Counseling

A Sweet Invitation: Join My Monthly Community Gathering

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For a long time now, something within me has been making itself known. A sense that the work wants to move beyond the individual container—without losing its depth. A knowing that healing, at this stage, asks not only for insight, but for relationship. 

A call to gather.

I’m writing today to share a new offering that has been asking to be born for quite some time: a monthly community space devoted to healing, integration, and conscious connection.

Why I’ve created this space-

So many people who are drawn to this work find themselves in an in-between place. You’re no longer who you were. But you’re not fully who you’re becoming.

Old identities, relationships, and ways of orienting to life don’t quite fit anymore. And yet the next layer hasn’t fully revealed itself. This can feel isolating—even when you’re doing “all the right things.”

This monthly gathering is designed to meet that threshold.

It’s a place to come together with others who are invested in healing—

not as a self-improvement project, but as a relational process.

A space where you don’t have to explain the language you speak inside.

A space where depth, curiosity, and inner honesty are welcomed.

What happens in the gathering-

Each month, we meet live for 90 minutes in a held, intentional circle.

We begin by anchoring the space—settling the nervous system, orienting toward presence, and naming intention. From there, the gathering unfolds organically.

There may be teaching.

There may be reflection or guidance.

There may be moments of being witnessed—or witnessing someone else and receiving exactly what you needed through them.

This work is integrative by nature. It draws from psychology, nervous system awareness, relational dynamics, and the subtle intelligence that emerges when we listen beneath the surface. There is no fixed script or single modality—because healing is not linear, and people are not formulas.

What matters most is that the space remains attuned.

Who this is for-

This space is for you if:

  • You’ve worked with me before and want to stay connected to the work in a lighter, ongoing way
  • You’ve been curious about my approach but haven’t felt ready for 1:1 work
  • You’re longing for community that feels grounded, emotionally intelligent, and real
  • You want a consistent rhythm of self-honoring presence amid a busy life.

You don’t have to come every month for it to be meaningful. If you can’t attend live, you’ll receive the recording. But my hope—and my intention—is that this becomes something you plan for. Something you let anchor your month.

Because real change doesn’t happen accidentally. It happens when we make space for it.

The details-

  • Live monthly gathering (90 minutes)
  • Third Wednesday of every month
  • First gathering: February 18

Open to all, wherever you are in the world. Recordings provided if you can’t attend live.

This is a space I will be actively holding—with my presence, my experience, and my full attention. I’m deeply curious about what wants to emerge here, and how this community may grow over time.

If you feel even a quiet pull, I encourage you to listen to that.

I would love to welcome you into this circle.

If you feel drawn to this work and would like to be the first to know when registration is live, I invite you to join the waitlist below. You’ll receive a personal note as soon as the space is ready to welcome people in.

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Calm Your Mind: Release Stress, Gain Clarity

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I’ve been reflecting on you lately, as I’ve received so many heartfelt responses from the last blog I posted. Many of you shared that you’re feeling unsteady, uncertain, and overwhelmed by the turbulence of everything happening right now. And I want you to know—I hear you.

I’m feeling the call of the collective, too. We are being pulled in so many directions, and the need for support, connection, and compassion has never been more urgent. Whether it’s the chaos of the world around us or the quiet turmoil inside, it’s clear that many of us are searching for something to anchor us.

We are all craving ways to return to a place of peace, alignment, and clarity. That’s what I want to offer you today—some reflections and tools that can help you turn inward, find your footing, and begin the important work of being held more fully, and healing.

 

We are living in a time that is calling us to come together—not in spite of our differences, but because of them. No matter our beliefs, backgrounds, or experiences, we are being invited to step into a new way of being, one that requires us to meet each other with greater awareness, compassion, and understanding.

But before we can truly unite with others, we must first learn to unite with ourselves. This means turning inward, becoming aware of the places within us that still need healing, and bringing consciousness to the wounds that shape our reactions, beliefs, and choices.

I personally believe that life is revelatory. And thus, the people and circumstances who appear in your field and trigger you, are simply there to reveal to you where YOU are not yet free. 

When you focus on the extraneous circumstances and feel victimized by them in any way, you are missing the point, and the golden opportunity. 

You are meant to look inward and ask: ‘What is this struggle revealing to me about myself?’ ‘What part of my ego needs to be held here?’ ‘Who is my true self, and how might I be in opposition to that version of myself because of who I actually am right now?’

The truth is, our suffering is self-induced. And we collaborate with that shadow material fully. It’s when we can accept and embrace our unconscious participation in our struggle that we can truly find the path to our greatest liberation and live the life we desire. 

Bringing consciousness to our wounds does not mean judging ourselves for them. It means illuminating them with presence and curiosity, recognizing how they influence us, and choosing to tend to them with care rather than allowing them to run our lives in the shadows. 

True healing is not about bypassing pain—it is about meeting it fully, offering it light, and integrating the wisdom it holds. And as we do this work within ourselves, we naturally contribute to the healing of the world.

Many are feeling lost and disoriented right now. There is a tornado of unsettling material occurring at a swift pace and it’s easy to be swept up in it.

But I believe that the only way to find our footing and move forward in a positive trajectory is to first turn inward. 

Identify with honesty where you are misidentified with your true Self. This requires the ability to self-reflect and witness yourself objectively. Often this requires a safe container, an objective but loving witness to help us see ourselves more clearly.

Commit to yourself to seek this out and to preview yourself like never before. Pursue the truth and welcome it with the intent to know yourself deeply, intimately and with wild abandon and radical acceptance.

When we bring light into ourselves—when we cultivate clarity, stillness, and intentionality—we are better able to pour that light into the world.

One of the most powerful ways to begin is by noticing the difference between reacting and responding—how we move from our past default patterns to conscious choices. 

If you are seeking support or guidance as you navigate these times, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You are not alone in this journey. 

There is nothing I love more than meeting intimately with you and your soul, and helping to illuminate to you all that you cannot yet see, so that you may be the most enlightened version of yourself. 

This is your birthright, and your truest purpose. Everything else will make more sense after that!

 

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Sacred Mirrors: Alchemy Through Relationship

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Relationships reveal both our shadows and our light. They are mirrors for our own inner-dimensional fractures and wounded-ness which are longing to be repaired.

Relationships are powerful alchemical containers that bring to the surface our deepest patterns, both illuminating and challenging us.

The opportunity is ripe to transform ourselves in ways we could not otherwise do alone. 

Healing isn’t linear, and neither are relationships. They ebb and flow, weaving in and out of intimacy and polarity. We navigate thresholds, manage ruptures and repairs, and move in and out of connection, often stumbling over our actions and words.

In these dynamic interactions, we have a choice: embrace the alchemy or remain stagnant. As humans, we dance within these potent containers, reflecting our pain points, exposing our truths and illusions, all while seeking safety, acknowledgment, acceptance, and love.

Our relational framework is deeply rooted, often formed in our earliest years and influenced by past life experiences, ancestral imprinting, and our current life’s relational dynamics. This framework is interwoven with our subconscious, nervous system, and immune system, collectively guiding our being.

You might find yourself dwelling in a fragmented relationship with another, where old patterns, stories, and behaviors are exposed. Yet, this exposure is a necessary step in upgrading and transforming our relationships, reflecting the internal work we do.

What is it within you that is surfacing, ready to be alchemized and transformed? What patterns must die for the new to be born? 

Lean into the cycles of death and rebirth within your connections, both past and present.

Be gentle and kind to yourself as you navigate your relational templates, inner child activations, revelations, triggers, and breakthroughs.

Co-regulation is possible, and indeed the sweetest medicine, when you choose to lean fully in and understand that everything happening in your relationships is a reflection of something happening inside of you. 

If something is showing up in your relational framework which you are unhappy about, what if instead of pointing the finger and focusing on the other person, you sought to discover what inside of you is a match for this circumstance and dynamic?

What if you explored that perspective instead of facing outward with blame? What if you took full responsibility for yourself and your own happiness? 

What if you healed yourself instead hoping the other person would heal? 

This journey is powerful and profound but having a guide can make it a lot less daunting.

I love doing relational work because all things are connected. Sometimes that looks like working with couples. Sometimes that looks like working with individuals to move deeper into connection. 

One thing remains true, if we enter relationships before we have done our own Conscious healing, we will play out our subconscious wounded-ness with our partner in an unconscious attempt to repair it. 

Usually this doesn’t go well for us, or for our partnership.

We tend to find partners who are the perfect reflection of our deepest wounds. In particular the wounds we carry from our most complicated relationship with one of our parental figures. 

If we are not conscious about the dynamics playing out, and the true source of them, we will get caught in an unproductive loop, and our relationship will struggle and suffer.

I love this work because I know what is possible in connection. I believe it’s what we’re here to experience in a meaningful, conscious way. 

I’ve worked hard to accomplish that personally, and I know how rewarding and fulfilling healthy relationships are for the soul. Especially in romantic partnership. 

I’ve learned that the container of sacred partnership is an elevated way of living. And it’s the only way I want to be in union. I want all my relationships to feel healthy and alive. 

 

It is a lot of work. A deep journey inward to be fully available and prepared for this kind of love. 

The beauty is now I know the way in, and I feel confident in my ability to move through any challenges with flow and balance. 

If I can help guide you deeper into your own heart, it would be my absolute pleasure to stand with you there until you feel at home again, and until you can find your way to sacred connection!

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Finding Strength and Peace in the Present Moment

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Goodness, the world is asking a lot of us.  How are you doing through it all?

If you are feeling activated or triggered by global events or by the noise and chaos of the holiday season you are not alone.

Can you take a moment to pause, to sit in stillness and find your breath?  Can you feel the life force in your body, the frequency of love vibrating through every cell of your being?

Love is the most powerful force on this planet. 

 

Much of what we are seeing in the news and media is activating a trauma response in many people, keeping us stuck in a dysregulated nervous system. Survival. 

Now is the time to reach for the ever present light within you.

We are far greater, stronger, more powerful when we’re united by the golden thread that connects us all. Love. Light. Consciousness.

The world is delivering some heavy lessons. This is why we must take the time to anchor into our center and surrender.

Our center point is where we remember that we’re both human and divine, that we’re okay, that we’re safe, that we’re alive, breathing. 

Our center point is where we remember that we’re not alone, that we’re a part of a whole, the one. Where we drop into our humanity, and our divinity at the same time. 

When we’re disconnected from our center, we’re forced to function and project from the past and future.  From old stories and past conditioning rather than the present moment. 

Our center brings us home, allows us to melt into the present, and reminds us of our sovereignty.

This is where the alchemy lies.  In this exact moment. From the center point of our hearts. Where we are safe to be both human and divine.

Hold and nurture this knowing.

It’s all within, at your center, in your heart.

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From Suffering to Strength: The Transformative Power of Pain

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As we walk the human journey, we will each experience a variety of challenging cycles within our lives. These cycles are divinely timed as part of our unique experience.

The truth is that pain is an inevitable part of being human. However, our suffering is optional. We have a choice regarding our relationship to pain, and whether or not we suffer because of this pain.

These experiences are deeply spiritual and have been a part of the human journey throughout time.  Painful experiences and circumstances are an opportunity to discover the unknown resources of power within each of us.

Amongst my deepest ethos and practice orientation remains true: 

A problem is never the true problem, what matters most is how we orient ourselves around that problem. 

 

An empowering awareness is, we can’t avoid pain. We can avoid suffering.

At its most extreme, the conditions of these cycles are brought to surface through unforeseen life events such as trauma, illness, accidents, death, divorce, financial loss, or any other past or present life circumstance. 

Many of us do not even recognize what is occurring, as it is hidden within the pain and chaos of ordinary life.

But we are all here to live our purpose.  Which means, if we are to bring our unique gift or medicine to the world, we must go through the experience of wounding, death and rebirth, and conscious post-traumatic growth before we can live in the fullness of our truth.

Our challenges are the lessons that lead to our own personal power where wisdom can emerge.

 

In psychology, this has been studied and is known as 

‘POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH’. 

This phenomena says that when we experience trauma of any kind, we have the opportunity to be reset in the aftermath of the trauma, which is always a mindset choice. 

The viable opportunity exists to have an even more meaningful life after the trauma when we choose to lean into the growth opportunity from the pain or loss. 

Simply put, experiences open us to greater wisdom when accompanied with the conscious right action. 

This has everything to do with our consciousness and choosing to align with what truly matters to us, which we often only discover after the trauma occurs.

 

Clarity, trust, self-love and self-worth, and discernment of what is ours to transform and what is not ours to carry forward are the qualities we must cultivate in order to support the growth of wisdom in our lives so that we may walk our path of purpose and fulfillment.

It is taking what we have experienced and learned, and transforming our lives to co-create with this new understanding and meaning for ourselves, and for the world around us through our purpose and meaning.

Exploring the wounded parts of ourselves is how we open to the ultimate possibility that is our life.

 

Awakening our consciousness and leaning into the pain opens the door to a truly unimaginable possibility.

Living a deeply awakened life is so magnificent and so far beyond most of what we see in the world that even when we experience it for ourselves, we often find it hard to accept that life could be this extraordinary.

But for us to make room in ourselves for the miraculous to take root, we must uncover, and ultimately restructure the belief in a life of limitation and examine our relationship with pain and suffering.

This deeply rooted and often unconscious limitation subtly holds us back from taking the steps of trust required to truly experience our own personal freedom and create a life we love living.

 

Speaking from personal experience, I know how grateful I am for the traumas in my life. 

Although the pain I have experienced personally felt excruciating and unrelenting at times, I would not have become the person I am, fulfilled by the work that I do, and conscious of my authentic Self if it were not for these experiences. 

I chose to lean into my post-trauma growth. I sought out healing, I turned inward, I explored my pain and relationship to suffering, I grew a relationship with my subconscious patterns. I became conscious of what I was meant to learn from the pain and who I could become because of it. 

My orientation to trauma was to witness the growing edge that was available to me through its discovery and unfolding. In doing so, I vaporized my suffering and became empowered by my pain. 

This was my awakening process and the pathway to my highest self.

You can awaken too. It’s never too late to change your relationship with suffering and trauma.

 

An awakening is not just a glimpse into the future — it’s an awareness of what is already true within you, here and now. What is aching to be birthed through you from your divine blueprint.

This is who you were born to be. It’s your true power, your essence, your genius, and the source of your prosperity and happiness.

 

When you are cut off from the truth of your essence, you don’t just fail to fulfill your true potential, you experience a disconnection from this divine pattern in you. 

That’s why the many attempts people make to solve “the problem/ sickness/ suffering” don’t work — because they are symptoms, not the root cause.

When we rediscover our truth and begin to align with and activate the latent power within us, our suffering dissolves.

This is when miracles can happen.

Are you ready to experience miracles and live out your true purpose? 

Are you ready to have trust and faith that no matter what challenges and pain arrive in your life, you are equipped to consciously traverse them and be stronger for it?

I invite you to explore the possibilities with me as your guide.

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Embracing the Underworld: A Journey of Shadow Work and Renewal

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Collectively we are dealing with radically uncertain times. All around us, we are feeling the charged energy vibrating throughout the cosmos. You may even be feeling triggered and unstable in many areas of your own personal life.

I believe the world is experiencing a spiritual descent into the Underworld.

When I speak of the Underworld, I’m not referring to a physical place, but a metaphoric place within ourselves. The Underworld is the deepest, most hidden part of ourselves where we suppress, repress, and bury all that we don’t want to look at, see, deal with or heal.

Carl Jung refers to this as “shadow work.”

Many of us are experiencing a descent into our shadow material, to our own darkness, shedding what no longer serves us.

As we approach these deep parts of ourselves, we have the opportunity to let go; to clear the old, stagnant and oppressive energy so that we may be born again into a more expanded version of ourselves. This requires acceptance.

 

The Universe is in constant expansion and so are we. Just as we are not separate from each other, we are not separate from Nature or the Cosmos.

 

When we look around, we see everything in nature going into a deep sleep or dying away. The trees are losing their leaves, but they are not dead- they are in a time of transition where they will come back to life again in the Spring. This transition is occurring within you, too.

We are planting the potent golden seeds for a new beginning.

We’re called to have patience and enter a state of deep rest, repair, regeneration, and acceptance. To let a part of our lives, or even who we once were, metaphorically die in order to seed, sprout, bud, and bloom again.

This is called resilience.

It is a reminder to all of us –

We must trust and stay open to what is dissolving away to make room for more light, expansiveness, growth and healing.

We must be willing to let go and grieve the death of what once was and no longer needed.

It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where everything that once felt safe and secure seems to be falling apart. But beneath the surface of the dormant soil, things have never been more active.

We are experiencing a phase of initiation, renewal, and rebirth. Collectively and personally.  You ought to give yourself time and space to recover and rest.

This is perhaps the most important part of our growth. And it takes faith and surrender to do it.

This is a very tender, powerful time.  Trust the sureness of the fertile soil.

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How Our Wounds Are A Divine Gift

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These are indeed turbulent times.  The world continues to challenge us, our values, our belief in the goodness of humanity.

How are you doing with it all?

I am sensing, collectively, that many of our triggers are being activated and that is not easy on the nervous system.  It’s not easy to be in our world right now. To feel the discomfort as we watch old paradigms and programs crumble in preparation for something better to be rebuilt.

Both externally and internally, we are experiencing the sacred path of transformation for the purpose of transcendence.  The new earth consciousness.

What we’re being asked to remember is that each challenge we face is an opportunity to deepen our faith and trust in ourselves.

But these challenges feel painful as we reckon with our triggers and how the old way of doing things no longer works to keep us feeling safe.

It may have played an important role in our lives at one point, but what once felt like control, now only adds to our suffering.

 

Journeying through these dark, activating times requires deep soul work. 
We’re meant to lose our inner compass in order to find the medicine within our own being to reorient ourselves. 
To find our center. Where the light never dies.

 

We meet our triggers, our wounds, throughout the many different spectrums of life.  It cannot be avoided.

But the more conscious we become, the more aware, the more we witness them, we’re given the opportunity to integrate them more.

Our wounds are a divine gift of our humanity, our great teachers.  They offer us an opportunity to experience the absolute fullness of life on this earthly plane.

If you are feeling activated by the noise and chaos of current world events, I invite you to witness yourself, drop into the sensations you are feeling in your body, and be with it.

 

This is an invitation to trust the wisdom in your body, to integrate the feelings and allow your heart to soften.

 

You are here because you matter.  Stay true to your values.  Remember who you are, why you came.

There’s so much uncertainty woven into the fabric of these times.  But your job is simply to remember that it is an invitation into deeper intimacy with our bodies, our faith, our inner knowing.

Can you feel it?

Nurture that space, invite in more love.

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Trusting the Sacred Timing in Your Healing Journey

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It can feel really frustrating when you’re trying to shift a pattern, release a behavior, forgive a relationship or heal from trauma, and can’t seem to get there.

Despite your best intentions and devoted commitment to doing the work, and doing it in so many different ways – peeling back the onion, walking the spiral – all of it.  The reality is, we must release the timeline of our healing in order for that healing to truly arrive.

When we allow ourselves to let go of the timeline, we’re reminded that there are sometimes many cogs that need to turn, that are not just our own, in order for the true healing to happen. 

Sometimes it can be connected to many other people within your system, whether it’s your family system, your relational framework, friendship, social circle, or ancestral line. 

And while we can be devoted to doing our own work, there can also be many threads, both seen and unseen, that are interweaving to conspire towards that true state of healing.  

This is one of the great mysteries of life, particularly when it comes to ancestral patterns and breaking cycles within a family or within a system. (And by the way, our family of origin patterns are always played out in our romantic partnership frameworks until we Consciously heal). 

So, if you’re doing all the work, yet still feeling frustrated with not being able to move through your pain or suffering – remember to trust the timing.  It is all part of the sacred mystery.

 

A Divine order. A Divine timing. A Conscious collaboration.

 

Keep inviting yourself to soften into the mystery. Your path is unique.  You’re courageous for being willing to move through your pain and choose your liberation and ultimate enlightenment. 

So have faith, and trust that healing is happening every moment of every day. And, rest into the mystery of the timing.

Healing is happening and it will happen. 

I’m with you.

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Finding Your Way Back To Yourself

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You are holy and whole. You are human, innocent and innately good.  Have you forgotten?

In our lifetime, through our childhood and life experiences we have separated from this sacred truth. 

The good news is, you can always find your way back to yourself. But it will take some work.

This is the call you have been waiting for to both soften and commit. To dig deep and open your heart wide. To root yourself in devotion, to live according to the compass deep in the center point of your heart.

 

Here is what I know for sure…

 

To light up the world you must first

turn on your own inner light.

To heal the world around us you must

first heal yourself.

To soothe the separation in the world,

you must heal the separation you feel

within yourself.

To create Heaven on earth you must

first find heaven within your own body,

to see it as holy and sacred.

To birth a new age, you must first

rebirth yourself.

 

And in every moment there is an opportunity for rebirth.

You must commit to your devotional practice and soul work like never before. You must take notice of what is rising in you and what is falling away. And instead of banishing the shadow, you must tenderly offer it up to the light over and over again.

This work is not easy. Which is why not everyone does it.

But you are not everyone.

You must find a way to keep your heart tender and open despite what is unfolding around and within you.

You must find a way to anchor and weave the light in whatever corner of the world you find yourself in.

It takes courage to set your gifts free. To look into the face of the things that you’re afraid to do and be and get curious about what’s on the other side.

But, I promise you, when you gather up the courage and lean into it, something magical happens.

Facing your fears and breathing through them, creating through them, moving through them – on the other side, you will discover your greatest gifts, joys, pleasures and purpose.

These gifts are the seeds that have been planted within you from the beginning and they are waiting for the light to shine upon them so they can fully blossom and show their truest beauty.

Are you ready for your gifts to be revealed?

The beauty of true healing and transformation is always available to you. You can reclaim your power through each choice you make.

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How To Keep Your Heart Open

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One of the greatest challenges of life is to learn how to keep your heart open when you most want to close it.  To stay open through hurt and loss, disappointment, betrayal, and pain.  To allow what’s falling away to fall away.  And to let life crack you open again and again.

The truth is, being human is not always easy.  In fact, often, it feels incredibly hard. But a life well lived takes courage.  It is full of losses and tragedies, as well as triumphs and adventures.

Whatever challenges you may be facing at the moment, life is coaxing you to keep your heart open, no matter how much it hurts. 

To find a way to unfold through the extremes.

 

Perhaps you’re going through a difficult time right now.

Perhaps life is testing you more than you think you can bear.

Perhaps more than anything, you want to shut down and cut yourself off.

Your grief is real.

 

The healing is happening and it will take as long as it takes.

Be gentle and treat yourself with the tenderness of a precious child, because you are one.  Remember that you have all that you need to create the life you are destined to create. 

All you need to do now is to stay open and take the next step. And tomorrow, you will take another.

Trust that you already know what to do. The blueprint is encoded within you.

I believe throughout our lives and through all the extremes, these experiences will be continuous invitations to keep our hearts open.

This is the courageous path from which healing can finally emerge.

Are you struggling to keep your heart open?  Do you feel your soul yearning for a deeper relationship with you?  If you are in need of support and guidance, I am here for you. 

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