Hi, I’m sarah.

I have a lot of education in my back pocket.

I was a teacher.

I was a registered nurse.

I learned Reiki, and became a Reiki Master (twice).

But the thing that brought me the closest to myself, was a study in Animism - the belief that everyone, and everything on this planet, the planet Herself, has a spirit. And we are supposed to be in right relationship with it all the time.

If you are new here, and would like to know some of my story, scroll down. If you are not new here, and want to know what’s shifted, and why all of a sudden this Serpent instead of the Phoenix, here’s why:

I have spent my life in the mind of the Phoenix – she who burns herself right down to the bare bones in order to be reborn. I’m a Scorpio, it feels natural to me!

But in a beautiful moment with one of my teachers, I remembered.

I remembered all the things I have learned and the medicine in ALL of them.

And those things have served me with their own medicine, and I am so grateful to them.

But I have grown, I have shed those skins, and evolved. And so here we are, sitting with one of my favorite guides, the Serpent. Knowing where I have come from, shedding what no longer serves me, and growing into a new skin.

My story

I have suffered from a deep need to control my whole life. Mostly spurred on by a chaotic upbringing, but also some real deep insecurity.

After having my daughter in 2018 my anxiety was uncontrollable. I wasn’t sleeping, I couldn’t eat, I hated everyone, the stories I told myself about the people around me were awful. I was spiraling.

I went to a counsellor who told me to “fake it ‘till you make it”.

I saw my doctor who said “aw post partum hormone shifting is hard” and I talked to my friends who basically said the same thing. I felt alone.

Then one night, a girlfriend showed up at my door with a crystal and a gift certificate to see an energy healer that she had been seeing at the time.

I was no stranger to the esoteric - I often visited a psychic while I was dating before I met my husband, so this wasn’t totally out of my comfort zone.

But as I laid on that Body Talk lady’s treatment table and she told me all the things about my fear, and my mom’s death, and my relationship with my dad - I was absolutely blown away.

And then I sat up. And I literally felt 10 lbs lighter.

It took me some time to go back, but I did. And then I learned Reiki, became a Reiki Master, and we moved to Squamish in February 2020.

I spent most of the Covid-19 pandemic in the ICU. I had gotten a job in an outpatient clinic, but every time there was another wave of infection, I would get pulled back to the ICU because that was my training. I had been an ICU nurse for 10 years before I started at Lions Gate Hospital.

By the 3rd wave of the pandemic my body was literally screaming at me. My whole rib cage had twisted on itself, and I couldn’t lift my right arm without being in excruciating pain.

I quit my permanent position in May of 2021, and my rib cage untwisted itself. And then all of a sudden I had a place to practice Reiki out of, and on December 14, 2021 I walked out of the hospital for the last time. The rest, as they say, is history.

(Also if you made it this far, thank you for taking time to read my story. I can’t wait to hear yours!)