About

My work is rooted at the intersection of the arts and healing. I am an artist, an author, a poet, a healer, and a board-certified, Interfaith hospital chaplain. My passion is guiding others to weave the rhythms of nature together with threads of imagination, symbol, and metaphor to broaden perspectives and facilitate lasting change.

About: When I returned to college after having four kids, I learned that I could call myself "a creative." I delighted in shapes and patterns, colors and fonts and learned the Adobe Creative Suite. I developed a personal style of boldness and whimsy in my art. But inside, something tugged at me, and I began to hear the whispers of what would become a calling; whispers that prompted me to dive into a broad education of spirit. I trained extensively in energy healing, and became a certified hypnotherapist. I studied spirit releasement and past-life regression before entering The Chaplaincy Institute, an Interfaith seminary, where I received an extraordinary education in religions and the arts before I was ordained in 2016. After two years in hospice, I meandered into a second tour of seminary at Earlham School of Religion. This enrollment allowed me to take a job as a hospital chaplain. As I pondered how to care for the healthcare heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic, I discovered, by chance, that the activities I developed for hospital staff care were the very same type of activities the Shay Moral Injury Center had researched and developed for veterans returning from war with moral injury. Art, poetry, nature, mindfulness, and play are ingredients for healing and are present in all of my work. Come explore faith-specific prayer cards, Spiro Sparrow Breathing Games, and the comprehensive and multi-faceted  B.E.A.R. Work Program .