I would call myself a spiritual person. It’s a label that I wouldn’t have used a few years ago, but I’m firmly on the journey now. You might wonder, what does it even mean to be spiritual? To me, it’s three things: seeing clearly (accepting reality), feeling deeply (emotional awareness), and loving fully (in love with it all). Everyone’s spiritual path is different, so this may or may not resonate. That’s okay.
One of the things I like to say is when you step foot onto the spiritual path, there is no such things as coincidence. You begin to see more clearly, both cause and effect, and how the universe is conspiring on our behalf. You notice synchronicities that otherwise might be ignored. Your dreams are more vivid and meaningful. Your moment-to-moment thoughts are not random, but intentional and full of deeper potential.
My spirituality is practiced not in theory but in the day-to-day beauty of single-parenting, working full-time, and trying to become a better version of myself. In other words, life itself is the practice.
Spiritual influences include, in no particular order:
Teachers
- Ram Dass and being here now
- The Kabbalah and the beautiful imperfection of our souls
- Eckhart Tolle and accepting this moment
- Jon Kabat-Zinn and meditation as a love affair with life itself
- Byron Katie and loving what is with the work
- Taylor Ross and the practice of bringing my love to every situation
- Thich Nhat Hanh and how peace is every breath
Artists
- Snatam Kaur on our heart of the universe
- Joe Reilly on learning to love again
- Jason Mraz on the power of presence
- Ganavya on the comfort of just being
- Rumi, Shams, and Sufism as a portal to divine love
- Mary Oliver on the journey of becoming who you are
- David Whyte on the deeper meaning of every word
Practices
- Awareness as our first family value: Inviting the bell before meals to re-center and breathe (kids love this one). Daily check-ins: what is your heart feeling, your mind holding, your gut telling you?
- Mindfulness and movement: Daily meditation, yoga, and walks. Stillness. Clarity follows spaciousness.
- Everything in nature: Admiring the birds, flowers, trees, and being small under the stars, planets, and moon. The intimacy of the wind on my skin. The impermanence of it all.
- Plant medicine: Psilocybin to tap into more sacred parts of consciousness and Ayahuasca to heal from trauma and see through the veil
- Unfolding: Feeling, sensing, knowing, intuiting, and manifesting. Our non-dual nature. We’re not separate. We’re one.
- Negative visualization including the complete acceptance of death of this form, not only of myself but everyone I know. Remembering the soul lives on long after this incarnation.
- Talk therapy, journaling, humming, sensory deprivation, incense, palo santo, agua de florida.
- Attending concerts and live experiences to engage in presence (no devices!)
Frameworks
- Numerology (life path 6, healer)
- Astrology (scorpio III)
- Enneagram (type 9, adaptive peacemaker, from 2023)
- MBTI (ISTJ, from 2010 - likely changed)
- David Hawkins’s map of consciousness
- Chakra energy and the third eye
This is all a living, breathing list, as it is an ongoing practice. I’m still human and make mistakes, every day. My kids remind me of that, and in effect, are my best teachers in this season of life. If anything here resonates with you, drop me a line. It’s not easy, I know, but I suspect you’ll find a way.
Drafted May 2026. Updated June 2026.