My story

I grew up in Manhattan, where I spent my time between an abusive home environment and public school.

In my teens, I began to use poetry to listen to my own body, uncovering an entire mythos of stories that had been buried and voiceless. I carried latent abilities to sense the body. Though I had yet to recognize them, there were clues - I had an English teacher who said, in a letter of recommendation, that my ability to tune into bodies of literature was “prophetic.” When I was bored in class I would go around the room guessing what phase of menstruation each of my peers was in. I didn’t share this with anyone because I didn’t know it was abnormal.

I moved to Colorado Springs for college, where I hungrily studied psychoanalysis, poetics, and literary theory. At the same time, semi-secretly, I began to explore the occult and healing arts. I wrote about the text as a living body.

At the age of twenty, I began to change. My creative work began to make me money, because it came from my own body. And my body itself transformed from the inside out. Repressed trauma melted off of me.

In 2020 I underwent a rapid spiritual awakening involving deep and urgent training in the art of psychic self defense and soul retrieval. When I came out of this period, I was an utterly different person. I felt no connection whatsoever to the life I’d had before. I moved all my possessions into my minivan, set up a bed inside, and drove to the West Coast, where I lived out of my car for five months.

While on the road, I began to offer healing sessions online. I discovered I had a gift for working with bodies, and my practice rapidly gained momentum, becoming a source of income that allowed me to move into a lakeside cabin in Montana.

For the next couple of years I learned to manage a business that rejected capitalistic notions of profit-at-all-costs and relied instead on energetic laws. I kept traveling every few months, working with land and bodies of water, recovering more pieces of myself, making art in ways I was unable to before.

I am currently residing in Portland, Oregon, working with the land here, taking a little break, tending to my body, enjoying the fruits of my psychic labors, and writing a screenplay.