About Me

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I was the weird kid walking outside with a mirror in my hands, facing it toward the sky so I could look down into it and walk among the clouds.

I didn't have words for what I was doing then. I only knew that I was fascinated by what existed above me, beneath me, around me, and beyond what I could physically see. I was drawn to plants, animals, dreams, spirit, nature, people, and the mysteries that seemed to live between worlds.

Looking back, I realize I have been walking this path for most of my life.

Today, I am a practitioner of Curanderismo, a mage, ceremonialist, clinical herbalist, traditional health worker, spiritual counselor, teacher, advocate, activist, agriculturalist, botanist, Reiki Master, and land steward. I am also a wife, mother, sister, and grandmother.

But these are titles. They describe pieces of me; they are not all of me.

Medicine, Spirit & the Unseen

My relationship with the world includes both the seen and unseen. I experience this through what I understand as my clair senses and through dreams, intuition, ceremony, prayer, ancestral practices, astral work, lucid dreaming, Reiki, spiritual cleansing, and divination.

I practice different forms of mancia, including working with candles and wax, water, smoke, and fire. My spiritual practice also includes helping people who come to me seeking cleansing from what they understand as harmful spiritual workings, unwanted spiritual influences, or attachments.

I do not approach this work from fear. I approach it through discernment, prayer, observation, protection, responsibility, and respect for the person sitting in front of me.

I am also an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church Ministries and practice traditional sobada, although I am not a licensed massage therapist.

Plants, Medicine & Community

My path is not solely spiritual. I have worked within the medical field since 2011, and that experience deeply influences the way I understand health and healing.

As a clinical herbalist and case management trauma-informed traditional health worker, I have studied herbal medicine, nutrition, psychology, anthropology, traditional healing, and the relationship between people and their environments. I work with plants not only from books, but through cultivation, observation, harvesting, preparation, and relationship with the land.

I am a self-taught agriculturalist, botanist, and land steward. The garden is one of my classrooms.

My community work has placed me alongside vulnerable and marginalized people in both rural and urban communities. I educate, advocate, help people navigate resources, and work to bridge traditional knowledge, community health, and the systems people encounter every day.

I have also had the opportunity to teach and speak in universities, student spaces, cultural centers, and community settings.

I believe knowledge becomes more powerful when it is shared.

My Lineage

My ancestral story is vast and complicated.

My roots reach into the Indigenous Americas, particularly Mexico, including Mexica/Aztec, Wixárika/Huichol, Cora, and Purépecha ancestry, alongside ancestral connections extending through Africa, Iberia, Basque lands, Celtic and Norse regions, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and former Persian regions, the Baltics, Balkans, and Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish diasporas.

These histories contain Indigenous peoples, healers, farmers, migrations, empires, displacement, survival, assimilation, colonization, and cultural loss.

I do not believe ancestry automatically gives me ownership over every tradition connected to my blood.

It gives me a responsibility to learn.

Part of my life's work has been unraveling what colonization and assimilation obscured, questioning what I was taught, listening to elders and teachers, researching my lineage, and recovering pieces of knowledge that were interrupted generations before me.

Perhaps that is also why I can sit comfortably with people from many different cultures. I am interested in where we come from, what we carry, what we have survived, and what we are trying to remember.

Why I Do This Work

I don't believe healing happens because one person possesses all the answers.

When someone comes to me, I bring everything I have learned—from medicine, plants, community health, agriculture, ceremony, spirituality, ancestry, and simply living through life.

But I also listen.

Sometimes a person needs herbs. Sometimes they need education. Sometimes ceremony. Sometimes advocacy. Sometimes spiritual work. Sometimes they need to reconnect with their body, their land, their ancestors, or themselves.

And sometimes they simply need someone willing to sit beside them without judgment while they figure out what comes next.

My role is not to make someone dependent upon me. My work is to help people remember their own voice, knowledge, discernment, and relationship with themselves.

I especially believe in helping women rise. Creating Sisterhood, not competition. Holding each other accountable and providing support to one another.

There is enough room for another woman to become powerful without diminishing my own power. If I know something that can help another woman grow, I would rather teach her than guard the doorway.

Still the Kid With the Mirror

For all the titles I carry and everything I have studied, I remain a student.

Some things I learned formally. Others I learned through teachers, elders, ancestors, community, mistakes, observation, experience, plants, animals, and the land itself.

And some things I am still trying to understand.

I hope I never become so knowledgeable that I lose the strange little girl who walked outside carrying a mirror toward the heavens just to experience what it felt like to walk in the clouds.

She was already asking the questions I am still asking today.

Who are we?

What have we forgotten?

What exists beyond what we can see?

And what can the natural world teach us if we become quiet enough to listen?

The older I become, the less interested I am in fitting neatly inside one box. I can speak medicine with one person, plants with another, science with another, spirit with another—and sit quietly with someone who simply needs another human being beside them.

I am everything, yet nothing.
I know much, yet I remain a student.
I walk between worlds, yet my feet remain upon the Earth.

I am still learning.
Still questioning.
Still remembering.
Still becoming.

And somewhere inside me, I am still holding that mirror toward the sky and walking among the clouds.