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When a mother honours her needs, backs her dreams, claims her beauty and her brilliance, her child learns this is normal mama behaviour. The cycle changes. The feminine strengthens. Humanity has a chance to heal.
— Kate Leiper
 
 
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My story began when I was working in corporate sales, surrounded by men and feeling like I was performing for my success. I was stuck and couldn’t embrace my own feminine nature. My work involved meeting with oil and gas executives and dealing with high pressure sales targets. I felt physically ill most days suffering with stomach aches and no answers. I found out I was pregnant in 2011 and my entire lens of the world around me shifted in ways that I could not turn away from. Just 12 weeks in my pregnancy, we suffered the devastating loss of a missed miscarriage and the grief I felt propelled me into a spiritual awakening. I began to wake up to a knowing that there was so much more to this life and my connection within it. Shortly after my loss, I became pregnant again with my son and his birth deeply awakened me and my own sensitivities. At the time, I couldn’t understand what was happening to me. I decided then to leave my corporate career as I couldn’t deal with the stress while raising a new baby. My transition into motherhood was a portal that stripped me away from everything I knew and took me into the depths of underworld. I felt lost, awkward and misunderstood. Throughout my personal struggle with postpartum anxiety, I discovered that as I connected deeper with my intuition, I received clarity and felt a stronger desire to learn more. I followed the path as a postpartum mentor working with new families in their homes. I started coaching and bringing mothers and women together to talk about the profound experiences and changes they were going through. Sitting with women provided validation for each of us that we are not alone in our experiences. I facilitated support circles which helped me see similar threads throughout each individual story. I founded Postpartum Support Calgary and cultivated a community for mothers to form connections with one another. Throughout this time, I yearned for the feminine way of life - one filled with ease and meaningful connection. I started to learn about the goddess and attended circles with other women who wished to embrace their own feminine path. I enrolled into a Goddess Mythology course and discovered the Great Mother, the original Goddess of All. For the first time in my life, I felt interconnected to the entire world around me and so empowered as a woman. I uncovered the stories of the bond between mothers and daughters and the sisters. I felt as if I had finally arrived home and crawled into the lap of the Great Mother, knowing from that moment on that I was safe to be who I was, authentic and vulnerable. I embraced all parts of myself - my grief, my rage, my joy, my fear, my anxiety. I was loved through it all. It was the Great Mother that initiated me into self-mothering and so it was that my story came around the spiral once again, a full circle. My path took me through becoming a mother, mothering other mothers, and now mothering myself. This is the feminine path. Stepping up into my fullness and sovereignty, knowing I am supported and loved every bit of the way. My work is centered around activating, initiating and guiding women through their own journey towards self-mothering and leading the feminine.

Over the years, I have received the teachings of many wise women and elders. My work shifted as I discovered the divine feminine and studied the Great Mother - the original Goddess. Connecting with HERstory was the thing that nourished my aching soul and led me to see that we are deeply connected to the natural world around us. I studied symbology, dreamwork and energy healing. I sat with my shadow and learned to fully embrace my humanity, releasing me from shame + fears that for so long held me back. The offerings I provide are a combination of deep intuitive knowing and a culmination of the wisdom that has been passed to me over the years. I have walked the path, clearing my own vessel of limitations and old conditioning so that I can serve women from an open and clear container.

I approach every journey with a unique understanding of what it means to hold space + bear witness to women. I also love research, reading, coffee and all things spiritual. I am an extroverted-introvert, creative, emotional, and passionate human. My happiest days are spent in a coffee shop with a good book and no distractions. I love a good vermicelli noodle dish and chocolate. Most of all, I too, am navigating this life alongside each one of you and I am honoured to have been called forward to do this work.