Welcome!

For years a small yet prickly voice told me, "there has to be more than this"

This life of work hard then you die. This life where only atoms exist in a mechanical universe.

I longed for the mystery, the magic... for Spirit.

A series of initiations gave me the courage to lean towards that small voice.

To blow my life-giving breath into its embers.

To re-kindle the flame of my soul's longing and let it guide me.

Thank you for your interest in my work. My primary focus is the evolution of human consciousness. How I approach that has varied over the years, but the underlying guiding question has remained persistent.

How can I best be part of the expansion of human awareness?

I studied psychology, all the way through a PhD. That didn’t answer the question. I’ve been experimenting with various forms of meditation since I was 16. That’s getting me closer. I turned to ecotherapy, hypnotherapy, wilderness rites of passage and ritual. Some things are becoming more clear.

I learn the most about human consciousness, my own specifically, by being in communication with the beyond-human world. I grew up on a dairy farm in northern England then a hill farm in southern Scotland. Now I co-run a forest farm with my husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

In between the farming I experimented with technology. I co-founded and ran for 11 years a health-tech company. I’ve also run a non-profit working for community rights, the Rights of Nature and climate justice.

I keep returning to the forest. Mostly now I write, walk in the woods, encourage mushrooms to grow, guide groups, tend grief and tell old Celtic stories.

Links to other places you will find my work

The Forest Farmacy is the farm I run with my husband Chris. We grow mushrooms and offer forest farming classes alongside soul tending retreats.

The Rites of Passage Council is where I trained with my mentor Kedar Brown to guide wilderness rites of passage and rituals. I am a lead guide with them and run the Seasons of Womanhood program through them.

I am part of the fire keeper team at the Center for Conscious Living and Dying where I help hold fire for those actively dying. I help volunteers get in touch with their grief so they can tend other.