As a healer and shamanic practitioner, I consider it my responsibility to tend not only to personal healing, but to the deeper conditioning that lives within me — the places where harm can be unconsciously perpetuated when left unexamined.
Spiritual work that does not include accountability reinforces the very systems it claims to transcend.
I live and work within a world shaped by systems of oppression — systems rooted in colonization, white supremacy, patriarchy, and extractive capitalism. These systems have caused immeasurable harm, particularly to People of the Global Majority, who’s bodies, cultures, and spiritual traditions have been exploited, silenced, and violated.
As a white woman, I benefit from systems that were not designed for collective liberation. It is my responsibility to use my privilege to challenge and examine the internalized systems of oppression that live within myself and my clients. It is also my responsibility to be respectful of the modalities I have been privileged to be a student of.
Much of my spiritual and healing work is informed by indigenous wisdom traditions — traditions that have survived attempted erasure and violence, and whose teachings have been taken without consent, context, or reciprocity. I hold deep reverence for these lineages. My work requires humility, ongoing learning, and an honest reckoning with history and harm.
I am committed to walking this path with care. I am a student and a steward of all the practices I have received.
I remain committed to staying in relationship with this process turning toward the resistance, shame and denial that inevitably arises when I make mistakes. I am committed to unraveling my internal reactions because they reveal to me the depth and breadth of my own internalized oppression.
To liberate myself from my racism, my sexism, my ageism, my consumerism, my self righteousness, is to truly experience my own self acceptance and inner peace.
Working with the divine can be a powerful path toward liberation. True spiritual practice invites us to see clearly, to soften defensiveness, and dissolve internalized structures that no longer serve us. Awakening is to liberate ourselves from our internalized oppression.
