Trauma Informed Mentor / Author / Artist

MY HEALING JOURNEY & CREATIVE FOUNDATION

There was a time when I couldn't find my way back to myself.

After a fatal head-on car accident involving my entire family by a drunk driver that shook me to my core, I found myself frozen. Numb. Without voice, without direction, without power. And alongside my own pain, I watched people I love suffer in ways I couldn't fix. After using alcohol to cope with pain that felt unbearable.

Then my hands remembered something my mind had forgotten. The repetitive, meditative act of creating began to quiet my nervous system. Give my trauma somewhere to go that words never could. It became something I could reach for. But instead of destroying, it helped to rebuild me.

What I reached for instinctively, science would later confirm. Creative practice changes the brain at a structural level. Women have been using their hands to survive and heal for millennia. I was simply remembering what my lineage always knew.

That knowing sent me on a 20 year journey. Into the science of trauma. The philosophy of healing. The wisdom of Buddhist thought. The somatic work of Levine, the trauma research of Van der Kolk and Maté. Training. Testing. Living every piece of it. Etherea is what my journey created.

“Your Story is Your Strength”

MY business was born from firsthand experience navigating the vast and often overwhelming self development and healing industry. While countless tools exist, I observed that many individuals struggle not with access to information, but with integration.

ETHEREA was created to guide participants through that process in a grounded and structured way. It serves as a clear framework through the complexity of modern personal development.