Gaia called me in 2012, and I answered. Days before my 25th birthday I traveled to Costa Rica to spend a month living in a tiny Afro-Caribbean beach town in wild primary jungle.
That month became 7 years. I sold all of my possessions, moved to the jungle, and began traveling alone all over the world. Gaia became my muse, my lover, my Mother, my everything.
Inspired by this love affair with Nature, I started a blog called This American Girl that in its prime was read by over 2.5 million people per month. I studied every esoteric healing modality under the sun, and became a devoted yoga teacher, energy healer, and dance meditation facilitator.
In 2015 I wove these worlds together, bringing women to Costa Rica for immersive re-wilding retreats in the embrace of Gaia’s powerful love.
On that path, I began to discover that I could communicate with Gaia directly, and receive ancient memories from Her body. I traveled alone to distant lands that called me, and received profound visions of ancient Priestess temples before I even knew that was a “thing.”
Then came the fall of my Atlantis. In 2018 a deeper initiation brought me into the depths of the underworld. Ancient feminine wisdom reawakened within my womb and a shock trauma plunged me into severe PTSD and Divine Feminine Enlightenment all at the same time. The world I once knew burned down to the ground.
I spent years after these events trying to embody the Truth I had touched so viscerally.
Truth eventually brought me home to the deepest pain of separation from my own ancestral roots, and into a core belief that as a woman of European descent, I did not belong to this Earth. Separated from the jungle home I had loved, I no longer knew how to live in communion with the wild nature.
My path of Feminine Embodiment became a deeper journey of healing this core collective human trauma in myself, and eventually creating spaces for women to do the same. Through the body, through the womb, through the roots.
In 2019, 2021, and 2024 I was blessed to make extended self guided pilgrimages to Greece. In 2019, I spent a month living on a tiny Cycladic island where I received visions of past lifetimes where I was a Priestess of the Aegean. It eventually dawned in me that my journey as a world traveler and blogger was an echo of my ancient past as an Earth Priestess.
In 2021 after a month of being initiated by the waters of a prophetic well in the Ionian, I traveled to the temples of Delphi, where the land reminded me of the deeper roots before the patriarchal temple stories. At the feet of the Pythia, the Oracle, I discovered the Neolithic Goddess Cults. And the women I now know as… The Priestesses of Gaia.
Embodying this wisdom became a wild magical journey of meeting every part of myself who didn’t feel worthy of claiming my own impossible to deny remembrance that I too served this role in one time. I began to see how every fear of showing up in my bigness in the world again (as I had previously through a blog that served millions) was rooted in my fear of what would happen if I embodied the power of the Priestess again.
This catalyzed my devotion to assisting women in trusting Gaia’s Source of Feminine Power in their own female bodies, for deepening and fortifying their own unique Goddess given Priestess path.
Earlier this year, I returned to live in the Cycladic Island of Paros for a far deeper journey of initiation into these mysteries, mysteries I am still integrating in preparation for our gathering next year. At the moment I’m living directly beside the archaeological site of Delphi, receiving greater healing and prophecies from the Priestesses who once inhabited these lands. Yes, the work continues and deepens.
If you’re here reading these words, I can only assume and imagine, you already know deep in your soul that you are a Priestess of Gaia. That you are here to reawaken this memory in this lifetime, and to create something that has never been born before. That you have a special gift and purpose for the reawakening of the Feminine we are seeding for the 1000 years yet to come.
Because credentials matter, I’ve been facilitating sacred spaces for women for more than a decade, I’m a trained and certified transcendental dance meditation facilitator, yoga teacher, breathworker, sacred ceremonialist, and women’s circle guide.
My advanced studies have included womb wisdom, blood mysteries, ancient Goddess religions, feminine shamanism, women’s mystery school teachings, rites of passage, tantric healing arts, Gene Keys wisdom, holistic trauma healing, and many forms of somatic and esoteric arts. I am a forever student of the Feminine and the wild.