At the intersections of imagination, creativity and nature, my work focuses on the eternal gifts of our original belonging that reveal our earliest, archetypal, magical, wise self.

As an Author, Creative Artist and Jungian-oriented Depth Psychologist, I trust the power of the imagination to carry us into new stratospheres of meaning during these times of transition. I invite listeners to re-encounter enchantment and a sense of the possible from their formative landscape in my podcast, Original Belonging: Through-Threads of Life’s First 14 Years. What lit us up decades ago isn’t long ago or far away but ever-present.

I grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs close to the sea, and my Irish-Catholic parents hail from NYC. After completing my B.A. at the University of Iowa, I moved East and worked as a freelance journalist and editor. I ventured to Ireland in my late 20s, called to study the poetry of women artists whose voices felt missing from the literary canon. This inquiry opened my eyes to a feminine lineage of storytelling that challenged the status quo (read my quest in The Diaries). Beguiled by family secrets and the search for my voice in the world, I wrote the coming-of-age memoir, FBI Girl/Warner Books, which became a Los Angeles Times bestseller, then adapted for stage. The memoir is recently re-issued. I dedicate FBI GIRL to my brother Joe, born with Down syndrome, who is my teacher of unfettered joy.

In my 40s, and after moving around the country for school, work, marriage, I left media and the 9-5 business world to pursue a Doctorate in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. This was also the time when my mother was dying. I am grateful for the many beach sunsets we experienced during that time. My mother taught me to love color and sea air and to always be curious and open-minded.

My life has gone through major transitions these past few years. I am grateful to be writing, consulting, hiking rugged hills, swimming in the Pacific, painting, playing music and supporting the advancement of intentional creativity, ecological consciousness, and the balance between the sacred masculine and divine feminine on this blue planet. It is all related—and so are we.

Revive joy! So say our deepest cellular structures, our beating heart, and the stars above.