My Philosophy- Fundamentals

If you’ve found your way here, you’ve likely done a lot of work already. You’ve read the books, sat in the circles, prayed, fasted, therapized, released, embodied, ascended, and descended.

You’ve tried to fix yourself in a hundred different ways, yet something still won’t settle.
The peace you glimpse never quite stays.
The body still tenses when life gets close.
The stillness you long for always seems just one more breakthrough away.

You may even have started to wonder: Is there something wrong with me that all this healing hasn’t worked?

There isn’t.

What’s happening is simpler, and sadder, than that: You’ve been trying to heal without Ground.

You were taught to transcend your body, to manage your emotions, to “manifest” your way out of fear, but not how to stay with what’s real, how to be safely and sacredly human.

We were never shown how to inhabit the in-between: the place where chaos and order, spirit and matter, grief and beauty all coexist.

And yet that’s where true life lives.
That’s the threshold.
And it’s where I do my work.

Why Healing Feels So Hard: My Take On What’s Happening

My core take on why so many sensitive, awake, capable people still feel stuck, anxious, or exhausted even after years of inner work is this:

We’ve built our healing on incomplete foundations.

We’ve learned the skills of awakening but not the skills of staying awake.

After three decades of walking with students and clients across thresholds of transformation, I’ve come to see that there are four core disruptions that keep us looping in fatigue, self-doubt, and fragmentation.
I call them the Four Disconnections and they’re the root of almost every pattern my clients face.

The Four Disconnections

GROUND — We’re trying to heal from the neck up.
We live as though the mind can solve what the body is still carrying. The nervous system never gets to exhale, so safety never takes root.

RHYTHM — We’ve forgotten how to move with life.
We override our natural pace, chase progress, and call it growth. But healing happens at the speed of digestion, not production.

BELONGING — We’ve mistaken independence for wholeness.
We were taught to heal alone — to “self-regulate” in isolation. But restoration is relational; the body remembers safety through contact.

DEVOTION — We’ve turned awakening into achievement.
We chase the next insight, teacher, or transmission. But real change grows from small, consistent acts of tending — not performance.

When these four disconnections run the show, even the most devoted healing work can’t settle. You can’t integrate what you’re still bracing against. You can’t belong to life while secretly holding your breath.

Healing feels hard because we’ve been taught to do it alone — to fix ourselves — instead of remembering that healing happens in rhythm, in relationship, and in right belonging.

The Deeper Cause — The Cultural Spell We’re Breaking

Our disconnection is not a personal failure. It’s the predictable outcome of a culture that has forgotten how to belong.

Most people come to this work thinking something is wrong with them.
They’re tired, scattered, anxious, and ashamed that they “can’t keep it together.”
But what we call “personal dysfunction” is often the nervous system’s honest response to living inside systems that depend on disconnection.

We are, all of us, shaped by a culture that:

  • Wages war on the feminine — on rest, receptivity, softness, and care. We learned to value doing over being, productivity over presence, and control over communion.

  • Severed us from living systems — from the land beneath our feet, from ancestral ways of knowing, and from the web of reciprocity that keeps all life in balance.

  • Turned healing into an industry — a marketplace of quick fixes and spiritual bypassing that sells transcendence instead of integration, consumption instead of communion.

  • Forgot the wisdom of cycles — the necessity of endings, digestion, stillness, and return. We measure progress in straight lines, but life moves in spirals.

Under that spell, even our most sacred longings get distorted. We seek awakening instead of aliveness. We chase transformation instead of integration. We treat healing as something to accomplish rather than something to remember.

But this forgetting isn’t irreversible.

When we begin to live in rhythm again — to rest, digest, and reconnect — we start to unwind the collective trance. We stop trying to become someone new and begin to remember what it feels like to be part of life again.

This is not self-help.

It’s cultural repair — one nervous system, one body, one season at a time.

The Prognosis: What Becomes Possible When We Remember Rhythm

There are only ever two directions: deeper into exhaustion, or deeper into life.

Most of us try to heal by doing more, reading more, processing more, and fixing more. But the body can’t reorganize while it’s being chased. When we work against our own rhythm, we trade vitality for control and call it safety.

The good news is that life is patient.

The moment we slow down enough to listen, it begins to move toward coherence again.

🌑 The Path of Struggle

When we keep overriding the body’s truth, life begins to harden around us.

  • We mistake effort for aliveness and mistake numbness for peace.

  • Our nervous systems stay locked in vigilance, even during rest.

  • Every attempt at healing feels like starting over.

  • The more we chase regulation, the more dysregulated we feel.

Over time, this path breeds quiet despair — a sense that healing is just another job we’re failing at.

🌕 The Path of Remembering

When we return to rhythm, everything changes — not because we try harder, but because we stop fighting life.

  • Safety becomes the soil of transformation, not its reward.

  • The body becomes a home, not a battleground.

  • Grief, rest, and pause become creative acts.

  • Our relationships grow roots; our work finds integrity.

You stop needing to manage life and start letting it move through you.

This is what I mean when I say rewilding.

It isn’t about escaping civilization or mastering a technique. Rather, it’s about remembering the wild intelligence that’s already living you.

When we live from that place, healing stops being something we pursue.

It becomes the natural outcome of being in right relationship — with body, land, lineage, and love.

The Prescription: How We Work With This

The Rewilding Way: Returning to the Rhythm That Holds All Things

Healing is not about adding more; it’s about remembering how to belong again.
To your own body.
To the turning Earth.
To the unseen intelligence that’s been guiding you all along.

This is the foundation of my work — not a program, but a practice of living in rhythm with life itself.
Everything I teach begins in the soil of Rewild Yourself and unfolds through the rhythm of the Wheel of the Year, the same rhythm the Earth has always known.

There are three layers that shape this work.
Together, they form a living ecosystem for remembering who you are.

The Living Landscape

This is the cosmology that holds us — the Wheel of the Year.
It teaches that everything in life moves through seasons of rest, emergence, growth, harvest, and release.
When we fall out of rhythm with that movement, we suffer.
When we realign with it, life begins to move through us again.

Each season carries its own medicine:

The Living Landscape reminds us that every cycle has meaning — that decay is as sacred as bloom, that rest is part of creation.
Healing isn’t linear. It spirals, like the seasons.

The Principles of Movement

This is how we travel through the work — the inner ethic that keeps us from turning healing into performance or striving.
It helps us stay oriented when the path feels uncertain.

These five principles guide everything we do:

  • It’s not your fault, AND it is your responsibility.
    You didn’t cause the disconnection, but you can tend it. Compassion and agency belong together.

  • You are not broken; you are remembering.
    Healing is restoration of relationship, not repair.

  • Capacity is the soil of change.
    We build ground before growth. Safety before expansion.

  • Belonging before boundaries.
    True sovereignty grows from right relationship, not isolation.

  • We move at the pace of presence.
    Nothing real can be rushed. Depth takes time.

These principles keep the journey gentle and relational — so that healing feels like coming home, not self-improvement.

The Path of Practice

This is the lived process — the spiral path of Sacred Evolutions season by season.
It moves like nature does: slow, cyclical, and regenerative.
Each phase builds the ground for the next.

  1. Ground - Rebuild safety in the body. Learn to orient, root, and rest.

  2. Remember - Listen beneath the noise for what’s truly alive.

  3. Rebuild - Strengthen capacity to hold more vitality, more truth, more life.

  4. Tend - Weave belonging through ritual, reciprocity, and relationship.

  5. Release - Let what’s complete return to the soil.

  6. Rest - Digest, integrate, and renew.

This is not a quick fix.
It’s the slow work of remembering how to live in rhythm with life again. We don’t force transformation here.
We grow the conditions where transformation can happen.

The Origin Story: How This Came to Be

This work did not come from theory.
It came from living, from decades of walking through thresholds of birth and loss, illness and initiation, and learning, again and again, how to listen.

I’ve spent most of my life standing between worlds, one foot in the unseen, one in the ordinary. For years, I tried to belong fully to one or the other, until I understood that my home was neither and both. The threshold itself was the teacher — the place where opposites meet and new life begins.

This body of work was forged in the living laboratory of experience: through mothering, teaching, and sitting with those in the tender middle of becoming.
It is rooted in the body — in the slow, precise repair of the nervous system — and in the wisdom of the living Earth.

I’ve been blessed to study directly with teachers and lineages across continents and traditions: Peruvian curanderos Don Agustín Rivas Vásquez and Don Viejo Agustín Rivas, Brazilian healer Rubens Faria, Russian mystics of the Petrov Institute, Kumu Allen Alapa‘i of Kaua‘i, and German mediums Doris Forster and Edmund Hoffmann, as well as wisdom keepers of Indigenous European ancestry and the old Hagesusen — the “fence-riders” who stood between worlds to listen for what life was asking next.

My work also carries the influence of scholars, poets, and visionaries who speak to the soul of this time:
Wolf-Dieter Storl, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Sherri Mitchell, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Sharon Blackie, bell hooks, Hildegard von Bingen, David Abram, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Carmen Spagnola, Bayo Akomolafe, and Tyson Yunkaporta, among others.

Each of them, in their own way, has helped me remember that healing is not a technique — it is a relationship.
A relationship with the body, with land, and with mystery.

The Sacred Evolutions Wisdom School was born of that soil — from years of apprenticing, holding space for others while learning, again and again, that the Earth already knows how to heal us if we remember how to listen.

It is the weaving of all those threads into one living practice: a way of coming home to rhythm, to wonder, and to belonging.

This body of work is my way of midwifing that remembering — not as a doctrine, but as a living conversation with the intelligence of life itself.

The Living Philosophy- How This Work Lives in Practice

This is not a belief system.
It’s a way of being in relationship — with your body, with time, with the living world. It’s how we remember what’s real when everything around us is speeding up or falling apart.

These are the principles that guide the way we walk:

1. Healing happens at the pace of safety.

There is no liberation through force.
The nervous system and the soul open only in conditions of trust. When we move at the pace of safety, life begins to move through us again.

2. Wholeness is not achieved; it is remembered.

You were never broken, only taught to forget. Healing is not about fixing what’s wrong, but about remembering what’s already whole and true within you.

3. The body is the doorway, not the obstacle.

Every emotion, every contraction, every ache is a conversation with life. The body doesn’t block your healing — it leads you to it.

4. The nervous system is the bridge between spirit and matter.

What the mystics call awakening, the body calls regulation.
When the nervous system softens, spirit can inhabit form again. You become a bridge between the seen and unseen — alive, grounded, and responsive.

5. Wonder is a vital nutrient.

Curiosity, awe, beauty — these are not luxuries.
They are the way life re-enters the body after long seasons of survival.
Wonder is how the world remembers itself through you.

6. Belonging is the medicine.

The cure for separation is not self-mastery it’s kinship.
When we remember our place in the weave of things — with the land, with ancestors, with one another — everything else begins to heal.

The Invitation— Begin Where You Are

If what you’ve read here feels true — if something in you relaxes or recognizes itself — that’s enough to start.

There’s no pressure to be ready, no timeline to follow.
This work meets you where you are.

You can begin simply: take a breath, notice your body, notice the season you’re in.
Everything starts with awareness.

If you’d like to go deeper, there are a few ways to connect:

  • Rewild Yourself — a foundational course for rebuilding ground and living in rhythm with life.

  • Gathering Space — an ongoing community where we practice together and stay connected through the seasons.

  • Seasonal Offerings — free classes and reflections that align with the turning of the year.

If you’re new, you can start here:
→ [Find Your Ground] — a free practice to help you come home to your body.

There’s no rush.
Start where you are, and let the next step reveal itself.

This isn’t a philosophy about escaping what’s hard.
It’s a way of remembering how to be in relationship with life — even when it’s messy, uncertain, or slow.

You don’t have to fix yourself.
You don’t have to rush.
Your body already knows the way back to balance — it just needs time, safety, and care.

Healing isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you’ve been all along — someone connected, capable, and belonging to the world around you.