My Story

For many years, I looked outside of myself for what I thought I was missing.
I searched for answers, love, wisdom, and acceptance in people, places, and things… and it led me down an addictive path.

My relationships felt empty.
I felt lost and lonely, even in a room full of people.

It was in early recovery that something began to shift.
Slowly, gently, I started to understand that what I had been searching for was never outside of me.
The answers were within… I just needed to find a new path, a new way of being.

My creative soul—my intuitive self—began guiding me back to nature.
I found myself spending more time outside, listening, noticing… and eventually, I picked up my brushes again.

The first painting I created in recovery was of a sunset I had witnessed a few evenings before.
As I painted it in a realistic way, just as I had been taught, it looked like the sunset… but something was missing.

There was a disconnect.
It didn’t hold the feeling.
It didn’t express the depth of my experience or my connection to that moment.

And so, I followed the pull to go deeper.

I began layering the painting, allowing it to become more intuitive, more personal… more true.
I let the story of that sunset unfold through me—what it meant in that moment of my life.

That was the turning point.

Through that process, I discovered what my creative soul had been searching for all along.
I found myself.
I found connection.
I found something sacred.

That single painting became a threshold—
a doorway into a new way of creating, of living, of being.

It showed me that the creative process itself holds wisdom.
That sunset was not just a sunset… it was about letting go of an old life so I could begin again.
Releasing what no longer served me, and making space for something more meaningful, more alive, more true.

Now, over 30 years later, I find myself standing at another threshold—this time as a guide, a wayfinder.

Sharing this path is not just something I do…
it feels like a sacred calling.

I believe that creativity is a doorway back to yourself.
To your inner wisdom.
To your wholeness.

And I would be honored to walk alongside you.

Are you feeling disconnected… or searching for something more?
Do you sense there is something within you waiting to be expressed?

Let me help you open that door.
Let me guide you back to your creative soul.