“Recovery may open the door, but healing reveals how vast the path can become. When we trust the light within, we are no longer bound by the paths already laid before us—we become free to discover what has always been possible.”

About Me

Recovery changed my life, but not in the way I once thought it would.

For years, I believed recovery meant finding the right path and learning how to follow it. I moved through different approaches, listened to people who seemed to know what I needed, and tried to do the things I was told would keep me sober, healthy, and moving forward. There was always another answer somewhere outside of me. Another way I was supposed to do recovery. Another version of what healing was supposed to look like.

Over time, I started giving myself permission to question what recovery could look like for me. I became more willing to explore the things I genuinely felt drawn to, even when they didn’t fit within the traditional recovery path I had known. That curiosity opened up an entirely different part of my healing. I began learning more about the body, energy, intuition, and the ways we carry and experience things beyond what we can always explain with words. One experience led to another, and eventually into trainings, attunements, and practices that I never could have imagined becoming part of my life when I first entered recovery.

What surprised me was that exploring these things never pulled me away from my recovery. It actually helped me understand it differently. Recovery was still the foundation, but I no longer felt like I had to follow someone else’s version of what healing was supposed to look like. I was beginning to discover what it looked like when it was truly my own.

As I continued exploring, I stopped feeling like everything had to fit into a particular system before I could trust that it had value in my life. I started paying more attention to what I was actually experiencing. I became curious about my intuition instead of immediately questioning or dismissing it, and I allowed myself to explore forms of healing that I may not have understood or been able to explain at one point in my life. I didn’t need everything to have a label or fit neatly into a category anymore. The more I trusted myself, the less I found myself searching for the right way to heal and the more I began discovering what was right for me.

Paraclete Recovery grew out of that part of my journey. I didn’t create Paraclete Recovery because I found the answer or because I believe there is one way people are supposed to heal. In many ways, it came from realizing the opposite. I had spent so much of my life looking outside of myself for direction, and over time I began to understand that my own experience, intuition, curiosity, and inner knowing deserved a place in my healing too.

Recovery will always be part of my story, but it is no longer the only way I understand myself. Everything I have explored, learned, experienced, and become since then belongs alongside it. I don’t feel the need to separate those parts of myself or decide which one is the “right” one. They have all shaped who I am and how I understand healing today.

I know myself differently now. I trust myself differently too. I trust what I know, I pay attention to what I feel, and I am much more willing to follow what genuinely feels meaningful to me, even when it doesn’t look like the path someone else would have chosen. For me, that has been one of the greatest freedoms of this entire journey: realizing that I was never supposed to become someone else’s version of who I should be. I was learning how to become more fully myself.

The Heart of My Work

The Heart of My Work

At the heart of Paraclete Recovery is my belief that we have to make room for the whole person.

My own journey taught me that healing is far too personal and complex to fit entirely within one model, approach, or way of understanding a person. There were parts of my recovery that could be explained through what I had learned professionally and parts that made sense within traditional recovery. But there were also parts of me that those spaces didn’t fully account for—my intuition, creativity, spirituality, energy, relationships, the wisdom of my body, and the deeper questions I began asking about who I was and how I wanted to live.

That changed the way I began thinking about healing altogether.

I stopped seeing healing only as something we do to address what is painful, unhealthy, or no longer working. Those things matter, but I also became interested in what happens beyond them. What happens when someone is no longer using all of their energy simply trying to survive? What begins to emerge when there is finally room to become curious about themselves, to create, to connect, to trust what they feel, to discover what has meaning for them, and to experience more of their own life?

That is where the heart of my work lives.

I don’t believe people are problems to solve, and I don’t believe any one part of a person tells their entire story. We are shaped by what we have lived through, but we are also shaped by what we love, what we create, what we are curious about, what we believe, how we connect, what we feel in our bodies, what we know intuitively, and what continues to change within us as we grow.

Because of that, I don’t feel a need to separate healing into neat categories. There can be room for practical tools and spiritual exploration. There can be room for what we understand intellectually and what we experience in our bodies. There can be room for intuition, creativity, energy, reflection, curiosity, and the parts of being human that are difficult to measure or explain. I don’t see those things as separate from healing. I see them as different ways we can come to know and experience ourselves.

For me, healing has become about more than moving away from pain, patterns, or survival. It is also about discovering what we want to move toward. It is learning what it feels like to be present in our own lives, to trust ourselves, to have choices, to experience connection and meaning, and to make room for parts of ourselves that may have been buried, dismissed, or simply never had the opportunity to be explored.

I believe there is something incredibly powerful about reaching a place where your life is no longer defined only by what you have survived or what you are recovering from. There is an entire person beyond that story, and there is so much more to discover about who that person is.

That is what I want there to be room for at Paraclete Recovery.

The Soul of This Work

The Soul of This Work

There is a light within each of us that I believe is far greater than we have been taught to recognize.

That belief has grown out of my own life and my own experience of healing. For a long time, I understood recovery through the paths that already existed. Those paths gave me something incredibly important, and they helped me build a life I once wasn’t sure would be possible. But as my own healing continued, I began to realize that recovery didn’t have to be the end of my exploration. There were still parts of myself I hadn’t met yet, things I wanted to understand, experiences I felt drawn toward, and possibilities for my life that I had never considered before.

That realization changed something in me. I became less interested in how far healing was supposed to go and much more curious about how far it could go.

That curiosity is a huge part of the soul of Paraclete Recovery.

I want this work to create opportunities for people to experience themselves in ways they may not have had access to before. Not because I know what someone else should discover or where their healing should lead them, but because I know how powerful it was in my own life to realize there was more available to me than I had been taught to look for.

There is so much of ourselves that can remain unexplored when all of our attention has been focused on surviving, recovering, changing patterns, or getting our lives back on track. Eventually, I began wondering about everything beyond that. Who am I when I am no longer just trying to survive? What brings me alive? What am I curious about? What do I feel connected to? What do I want to create, experience, understand, and discover? What happens when healing gives us enough space to begin asking those kinds of questions?

Those questions have taken me into parts of myself and into experiences I never could have planned at the beginning of my recovery. They have also taught me that I don’t need to know where someone else’s exploration will lead in order to believe there is value in giving them the freedom to explore.

That is important to me because I never want Paraclete Recovery to become another path that tells people who they should be or what their healing should look like. I want to offer experiences, practices, ideas, and possibilities that someone can encounter for themselves. Some may resonate deeply. Others may not. The point is not to arrive at the same place I did. The point is having the freedom and curiosity to discover what is meaningful for you.

That is where the soul of this work lives for me.

I believe recovery can give us the opportunity to do far more than rebuild a life after what we have been through. It can become the beginning of knowing ourselves in ways we never had the space to before. There may be creativity we haven’t expressed, intuition we haven’t learned to trust, parts of ourselves we haven’t understood, connections we haven’t experienced, and possibilities for our lives that we simply haven’t encountered yet.

I don’t know what those possibilities will look like for another person, and I don’t believe I am supposed to. What excites me about this work is creating more room for people to discover that for themselves. Because after everything my own journey has taught me, I believe the light within us is not simply something that helps us survive the darkest parts of our lives. It is also what allows us to discover just how much more of ourselves and this life there may still be to experience.