The questions behind my work
What do we want most, and how do we create or receive it deliberately, across every part of life? And what are the spiritual and energetic laws of the universe, and how do we live in alignment with them? How do we experience optimal health and wellness?
These questions have guided my personal life, my academic path and my professional work for decades. I study, I experiment, I apply, I teach and I learn, all iteratively.
Why I do this work
Most of us were never taught how the mind and body work, or the best ways to get our needs met. Instead, many of us were taught ways of dealing with emotions that actually increase our challenges over the long term. So our emotions stay stuck inside, where they’re continually triggered, fearfully avoided, fiercely protected against, or suppressed so deeply that we lose touch with our desires and with our own experience.
This should be taught in school, and it’s not.
Many of the strategies we pick up unknowingly create inner violence and pain. They keep us suffering inside, and they limit our ability to get our needs met, achieve our goals and receive our desires. They also shape how we affect the world around us: what we’re able to give, through our gifts, our love, our heart and our mind, to our loved ones, our communities and our world.
Learning this has been my life’s journey, and I’ve learned it by living it: through a master’s and a PhD in clinical psychology, somatics, meditation and the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, each one tested in my own life and refined through years of working with people.
Now I’m making it my life’s work to educate and help humanity deeply understand how to care for themselves and others. I believe creating inner peace and alignment should become a widely understood skill and capacity, so people can be their best and contribute to the world, especially in the century ahead, with so many changes and unknowns.
I grew up in Ottawa. Around the age of 15, I became passionate about finding the power to rise above my circumstances and create the life I wanted. That grew into a lifelong inquiry. I tested many models, and I became more and more interested in how consciousness, beliefs, internal stories and posture shape what we experience and create.