Incandescent Mental Health - Hub of Resilience and Felicity

This is the story of a life well-lived with gusto and abandon, at times in the margins, in excess, at times squarely ensconced in the heart of family and relationship. At twenty-nine, after almost two decades of running farther harder faster, I was isolated and hopeless.  Through grace and the foundational of love of my family, I found my way to recovery, and through recovery, to freedom.  I learned joy of being of service and presence of mind from the practice of meditation. 

 

At twenty-nine university awaited me – I painted, I wrote, I drew the human form.  I fell in love with biology, I loved “an elegant solution” in algebra.  I lived in Granada, Andalucia, in southern Spain for a year, immersed in baile flamenco, siesta, “mudejar” – the art of Islam fused over centuries into the Andalucian traditions.

 

I married and had my first child at 38, my second at 40.  I dove into the study of attachment theory and uncovered part of the magic of my resiliency: the primary relationships of love and attentiveness, the bonds of trust that sustained me through the proverbial dark night of the soul.  I facilitated family groups based in attachment theory in support of families struggling with the transition to life with babies, children, adolescents, also supporting families fiercely committed to ending the cycle of intergenerational trauma and abuse.  

 

Now I am in this, the third stage of life, dedicated to doing the work with you, with your family, to find the way to freedom, to a life rich in self-esteem, to fulfillment within your most cherished relationships.