I grew up between the hills of Tennessee,

the cornfields of Indiana,

and the mountains of North Carolina.​ 

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Joan Didion said, "Don’t you think sometimes that people are formed by the landscape they grow up in.. it formed everything I ever think or ever do or am."

 

From early on nature and art have been guiding forces in life, and meditation and embodiment practices joined the team along the way. I was raised in a home with thousands of books, and in a family where we repeated my Montessori preschool mantra "learning and growing everyday". ​

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​​I studied visual art in high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and then psychology, biology, and art at UNC Chapel Hill. After graduating I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, was elected to Boone Town Council, and started a company for sustainable & refillable products, called Resupply. 

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I'm still involved in local sustainability initiatives by serving on boards and volunteering at ecological work days, but the soul of my work is in guiding people into deeper connection with the Earth by learning how to be in the wilderness and live as their own wild self through co-created experiences. ​

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