ABOUT

My work exists at the intersection of embodied discernment, grounded spirituality, power analysis, nervous-system awareness, and meaningful transformation through environment, movement, and coherent action.

I work with discerning individuals navigating complex relationships, institutional pressure, burnout, identity shifts, chronic self-regulation, and major life transitions.

People who are perceptive, capable, and often highly self-aware — yet increasingly exhausted from overriding what their body has been trying to communicate for years.

My approach integrates lived experience, doctoral-level research, trauma-aware and somatic perspectives, strategic insight, and grounded spiritual practice.

At the center of my work is a simple but transformative understanding:

Your body often registers subtle shifts in relational and environmental pressure long before your mind can fully explain what is happening.

When those signals are repeatedly overridden, life begins to feel confusing, exhausting, and increasingly misaligned.

I teach people how to recognize those signals, understand what they are communicating, and translate them into coherent action.

My work was shaped not only through academic study, but through profound personal rupture, reconstruction, and survival.

I grew up in poverty in Saskatoon and became the first person in my family to obtain a university degree after leaving school in Grade 9. Before entering academia, I survived homelessness, addiction, severe domestic violence, institutional destabilization, family court trauma, and the long process of rebuilding self-trust after years of coercion and survival-based adaptation.

I later returned to university as a mature student while raising a child on my own, eventually completing a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History with Great Distinction and a Master’s degree in Pacific and Asian Studies. My academic work explored Japanese pilgrimage traditions, religion, embodiment, continuity, and systems of meaning-making through movement and ritual practice.

I later pursued advanced doctoral research in Medical, Global, and Environmental History, focusing on goddess-centered healing traditions, women’s embodied spiritual authority, colonialism, ritual, trance states, and the relationship between environment, perception, and power.

Alongside my academic work, I pursued training grounded in the body and nervous system, integrating cognitive, somatic, ecological, and relational approaches into a framework that bridges intellectual rigor with lived human complexity.

This became the foundation of:

Body as Barometer™
The understanding that the body detects shifts in pressure before the conscious mind can fully interpret them.

And:

The Coherence Code™
A structured approach to rebuilding alignment between body, perception, voice, and action.

Today, Emerald Goddess International offers private, high-touch immersive experiences designed for individuals seeking clarity, nervous-system decompression, discernment, perspective shifts, and meaningful transformation through environment, movement, reflection, and personalized support.

This work is deeply relational, intentionally curated, and grounded in the belief that meaningful change rarely emerges through information alone.

Sometimes clarity arrives through distance.
Through movement.
Through finally stepping outside the environments that taught you to override yourself.