From the begining, the natural world was my first teacher.

I was a wild child—barefoot and brambly, mud-browned and honey-sticky, climbing the Lightning Tree every day as if it were a cathedral tower made just for me. I kissed toads, danced with bees along country roads, and listened for the stories the wind carried through maple leaves. Long before I learned the language of theology, I knew I belonged to the Earth and that She had wisdom to share.

That early wonder became the thread that wove my life’s path. I followed it into years of study, reflection, and spiritual practice that continue to shape me today. I received my Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion, where my studies centered on ecology and religion, interreligious responses to the ecological crisis, and the way Wisdom pulses through soil, story, and spirit. My formation was influenced by Hindu ecotheology (especially Shakta Tantra), the Earth-honoring wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible, the green, humus-rooted mysticism of Hildegard von Bingen, and currents within Celtic spirituality.

A formative Eco-Ministry Intensive through Ecology of Awakening and The Chaplaincy Institute baptized me back into the wild—returning me to the embodied, storied Earth that first raised me. Since then, my vocation has slowly clarified: to help others enter deeper relationship with the Sacred and the Sacred Earth.

I am a Certified Nature Therapy Guide through the Association of Nature Therapy Guides and Programs, a minister of Faith Formation at Salem United Church of Christ in Verona, WI, and a practitioner of Wild Spiritual Companionship—a contemplative, Earth-rooted approach to soul tending. I’m also a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, where I continue learning the art of listening to land, season, and story.

My life is now rooted in the Driftless hills of southern Wisconsin, on 40 acres of maple and oak, where I am learning again how to belong to a landscape. This time as a mother. And yet the austere tenderness of Northern New Mexico still shapes me: the pinyon’s resin, the desert’s quiet, the blue shadowed canyons of the Gila, the Chama river stone I light my beeswax candle upon before entering sacred time.

Through Wild Soles, I offer:
• Wild Spiritual Companionship — one-on-one, Earth-honoring spiritual guidance
• Wild Wanders — guided Nature Therapy walks and sensory immersions
• Wild Sole Retreats — seasonal, contemplative gatherings shaped by the Celtic Wheel of the Year

My work blends contemplative presence, ritual, nature connection, and the slow practice of wonder. It is rooted in a faith that the Holy hums in dust, breath, birdwing, and in the quiet spaces between our stories.

When I’m not guiding, writing, or tending the Wild Soles hearth, you’ll likely find me wandering a Driftless coulee with my daughter, tucked under a maple listening for spring warblers, looking skyward for Kestrels, sipping tea on the porch, or daydreaming about the desert trail that still winds through my memory.

Will you join me on a journey of wild soles?
There is room here—for your questions, your longing, your belonging, your deep breath of Earth.