I’m a writer, spiritual director and coach, astrologer, intuitive, critical care nurse, and recovering activist. While I’m rooted in my natal Christianity, I have an interspiritual orientation and a particular interest in contemplative traditions, esotericism and Western occultism.
I grew up in charismatic evangelical Christianity and later became an Episcopalian. I’ve spent a lot of time in meditation groups, learning energy healing, and practicing magic. I’m always looking for the intersections and integration between animism and theism, paganism and Christianity. My primary spiritual practices these days are meditation and praying the rosary. I also love a good high-church liturgy and occasionally cast spells.
A lot of my early adulthood was spent deprogramming myself from fundamentalist Christian dogma— fear of going to hell, sexist beliefs about women, and sexual puritanism, to name a few. Later, I became a hardcore lefty activist, until I burnt out. I’m now in the process of deprogramming myself from a lot of social justice dogma, and the parallels are uncanny.
I would still consider myself broadly on the left, but these days I’m much more curious and interested in learning from a variety of perspectives: right, left, orthodox, heterodox, traditional, and progressive.