Cultivating a strong taproot—woven together through community and ceremony—has held me for much healing work in my life. I want to share this passion, and I am guided to hold your hand as you walk through various thresholds in your life. Thresholds mark our progress in life. They represent movement on our path. We walk through many thresholds in our earthly lives. Another way we could talk about thresholds might be to call them rites of passage or initiations. Some examples might include turning 18, graduations, birthing children, losing our parents, and so forth.

 

Imagine or remember all the shifts you experienced with the loss of your parents, the death of a childhood pet, the loss of your first animal companion as an adult, moving to a new state, starting a new career and the list goes on. Even if the threshold we cross is eventually positive for us, it is often filled with some grief.

 

It is my complete honor to hold space for these transitions and to help you walk through the challenging parts of life with embrace versus apprehension. Embracing struggle and challenge helps us to align with life. When we can open to all the lessons that come from these rites of passage/thresholds, we connect further to universal wisdoms understanding that part of life is loss, and death, just as much as it is joy and happiness.

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Taproot Journeys is part of the dying well movement helping people be at peace with death in all ways whether it is before they take off their own earth robes or with their loved ones.

 

With death comes grief, the glue of community. “Showing up” in the vulnerability brought to bear by grief is one of the most intimate acts experienced during earthly lives. And yet, grief is still one of the most difficult and challenging emotions that humans experience. It is a great teacher and a great equalizer. It moves us to knowing and feeling grace and helps us let go of control.

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I believe that the grief process done well, and even with drama, is one of life's most potent gifts, filled with more growth than we can imagine. I’m here for it and I want you to be here too! My goal is to support you as you struggle to thrive and not simply survive.

 

I invite you to join me in the movement that de-stigmatizes grief, death, and dying. Part of this movement is to acknowledge grief that is disenfranchised.  Disenfranchised grief is “grief that goes unacknowledged or un-validated by social norms.” For example, the loss of our beloved companion animals or feelings of eco-grief.

 

We should think of death as not only leaving our physical bodies but that we die-off to what does not serve us in life.  We can do this repeatedly as we evolve into our soul’s purpose as humans-being.

 

I have found that the training we need to learn to trust our intuition, our heart, and body wisdom, can be found in circle, ceremony, ritual, educational workshops, breathwork, and other modalities that work to center our interconnection(s). We practice these skills all throughout our lives so that when we come to the end of our time here, we have the mussel memory to walk on feeling at peace and in love with life even as we are dying.

 

You can read more about what I offer elsewhere on my site, but here I want you to know a bit about me. Below I have highlighted some meaningful aspects of my story. These truths below have been woven together over many years strengthening my own taproot. I’m gonna start when I was a baby so hang on!