Why not f@#k around and find out what you’re truly capable of? You might just surprise yourself!
Relational & Embodiment Guide
Offering 1:1 guidance, retreats, and ritual-centered embodied practice for people navigating toxic dynamics, grief, and major life transitions.
My specialty is supporting people navigating toxic and abusive situations, setting boundaries, working with addiction (self or others), and tending to the cultivation of intuitive self-trust as well as navigating the grief that often accompany these experiences.
Did you find your way here — or did this space find you?
In many wisdom traditions, the answer is: somewhat both.
We are always in quiet conversation with something larger than ourselves —
our intuition, our truth, the deeper current that moves us toward what is honest and alive. Whether we choose to pay attention, commune, or honor that is up to us. But the Universe is always listening.
Often, we arrive at places like this not necessarily because we were searching,
but because something in us was ready. Ready to be acknowledged. Embraced. Seen. Heard.
I have decades long, been one to question “coincidence.”
If you found your way here maybe you are ready.
Ready to slow down.
Ready to listen.
Ready to remember.
Who This Work Is For
Ritual and retreat tend to resonate with people who:
• are navigating grief or loss (including death)
• are in transition or reorientation
• feel “functional” but deeply tired
• are done performing healing
• want depth without spectacle
Held with clarity, guided by integrity, and shaped by curiosity.
Emerald Goddess is
a soft place to land when certainty is feeling elusive, but the universal truths remains embodied.
Your body already knows the way.
Why Retreat
A retreat is not an escape from life. When designed with care, it is a temporary container that allows for integration; something most people cannot access within everyday routines.
Retreats create conditions that modern life actively works against:
• uninterrupted time
• embodied attention
• collective holding
• permission to rest
• space for reflection without urgency
Within our retreats, ritual functions as a bridge:
• between thought and sensation
• between experience and meaning
• between what has been lived and what can now be carried forward
Ritual slows time. It gives form to transition. It allows grief, insight, and change to be witnessed rather than managed.
Historical Foundations: Ritual as Therapeutic Practice
My doctoral research examined goddess-centered healing traditions in South India during the colonial period (1800–1920). In these contexts, ritual functioned not as metaphor, but as a therapeutic system. Practices involving:
• movement and rhythm • breath and trance
• plant medicines
• collective witnessing
• devotional relationship
Ritual is often misunderstood as symbolic, theatrical, or rooted in belief alone. Historically, however, ritual has functioned as a technology of care. In other words, as a way communities organize time, attention, and relationship in moments when ordinary language and routine are insufficient.
Across cultures and historical periods, ritual has been used to:
• mark endings and beginnings
• support grief and mourning
• integrate trauma and loss
• regulate the nervous system through rhythm and repetition
• create shared meaning in times of uncertainty
Ritual does not work because it convinces the mind. It works because it organizes experience through structure, pacing, embodiment, and collective presence. In this sense, ritual is not separate from healing. It is one of the oldest forms of it.
Many people are not struggling because they are broken, resistant, or unmotivated. They are struggling because the structures around them do not allow for integration. Integration requires:
• slowness
• safety
• containment
• witnessing
Without these conditions, experiences accumulate without being metabolized ~ especially grief, loss, trauma, and major life transitions.
From Survival to Sovereignty
What I bring to this work is decades of lived experience and work, alongside over a decade in academia studying ritual, meaning-making, and how humans actually move through loss, rupture, and transformation.
Some of the work I’m most effective at involves supporting people as they disengage from harmful or abusive relationships. This includes naming distorted dynamics, making space for the grief that follows, and helping clients reconnect with their own judgment and authority during times of transition.
Discernment, accountability, and honesty are central to my work. I don’t offer quick fixes or spiritual bypassing. And I won’t sugarcoat shit ~ this work asks for presence, responsibility, and a willingness to be accountable and honest.
I help guide people navigating grief, sobriety, major life transitions, and moments of deep recalibration.
My work centers embodiment, agency, and honesty for real change that lives in the body and is carried into daily life, not just understood intellectually.
When the Body Speaks ~ Listen
For a long time, my life was shaped by endurance, consumed with co-dependency, tolerating abuse and using substances to cope.
I learned early on in life how to keep going, keep pushing, keep “strong” ~ through loss, instability, systems that didn’t protect, and responsibilities that arrived before I was ready. Like many women, I became capable, resilient, and outwardly strong while quietly living in a state of ongoing survival.Eventually, my body began to tell the truth my mind had been overriding.
Burnout. Collapse. And a sense that something essential was being lost.
What I came to understand — slowly and imperfectly — is that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about learning to listen. About safety. About regulation. About honoring the wisdom that lives in the body long before the mind can make sense of it.
My own path led me through academic study, lived experience, and years of inquiry into ritual, embodiment, and healing traditions that center wholeness rather than pathology.
Again and again, the same truth emerged:
The body is the barometer.
What I Believe Now
I believe in:
spaciousness over force
integration over performance
choice over obligation
embodied knowing over external authority
I believe that meaningful change happens when people feel safe enough to be honest — with themselves first!
And I know that we don’t heal in isolation.
This is not about trends or quick transformation. It’s about slowing down, listening carefully, and creating space for what’s real — especially during moments of transition.
The work here is held with intention, discernment, and care.
A Space for Many Kinds of Journeys
Emerald Goddess exists for people who are between chapters. For people who don’t yet have the words.
For those who are tired of forcing clarity.
For the ones who need space to talk, reflect, and be witnessed. Or to begin again from wherever they are.
There is no right starting point.
Only an honest one.
You’re here for a reason.
So Let’s BEGIN
Emerald Goddess is the container that holds the dual aspects of the work I have been called here to do.
For the dual aspects of what the ways in which I have been called to serve.
You are welcome to meet it in your own way.
And with that, I welcome you!
With Love & Light, Empathy & Integrity.
May we rise together.
May we heal and release what no longer serves us.
May we Reclaim all those parts of us that we have silenced for far, far, too long. xo
So….
Why not f@#k around and find out what you’re truly capable of? You might just surprise yourself!
Blessings & Love
T