A 60 YEAR PLAN… the full-er story of how I got to where I am now.

I have worn many hats in this lifetime: dancer, acupuncturist, beekeeper, oracle, author, Access Consciousness™ and Talk To The Entities® Certified Facilitator, and more.
My first moments of truly enjoying being alive, were as a dancer. Dancing gave me the space to move with incredibly different energies, that I might not have otherwise explored. I could be the villain or the invalid or the warrior onstage, without having to worry about what any of that meant about “me.” It was both exhilarating and relaxing. Moving my body brought me a level peace and ease I didn’t realized I had been longing for.
And yet, though dancing brought me so much joy, I knew that something even greater must be possible for this lifetime of mine.
And so I started to ponder what I would like to leave behind after this body of mine dies? What mark do I truly desire to make on the world? What delights me so much that I would like to add to it?
And so I created a 60 year plan.
I had been visiting some parks regularly in the Seattle area and started to read up about the people who designed them. I mean, what an enormous contribution for the future these people had been! Their foresight, to set aside space for the trees and the flowers, was nurturing SO MANY different life forms all those years later.
I thought, “Perhaps I can make a park someday.”
Of course, I had no idea what creating a park actually involved, so I gave myself 60 years to do it.
60 years seemed like plenty of time to let this journey unravel, without being too stressful.

I talk to plants.

I have since I was a little girl, though it wasn’t until I got a bit older that I started to really dive into it deeper. The astounding thing is that not only the plants but the entire world around us, has so much to say.
It is simply quite different than what you might expect.
Years ago, I was introduced to the idea that everything, even all of what might be called “inanimate,” is conscious, and that plants respond to the energy of their environment, as well as to those who are tending them.
Not long after this discovery, I was sent into the garden to go cut back a bunch of ivy.
Honestly, I was a little freaked out.
”But wait! That ivy is conscious! What does that even mean? Does it feel things? Will it hurt if I cut it?” I really had no idea what it might be like for the plants I was sent to trim.
And so, I just said, “Hello!” to everything in the garden, and asked for the plants to show me what to cut and what not to cut.
It was AMAZING! I started trimming away and every once in a while I would get the sense to NOT CUT something. The garden kept me from making all sorts of little mistakes… like cutting a sapling growing under the ivy, or even when I was about to cut through part of the watering system.
I was so excited that I was actually able to sense a response to my request for guidance from the plants directly… and so I set about asking pretty much EVERY PLANT I ENCOUNTER tons of questions. The magic that I have discovered is what has led to the creation of Talk To The Plants.

I continued dancing and at one point suffered an injury that might have stopped me from going on an upcoming tour. But, nothing was going to stop me! So I got to work looking into what types of treatment were available for my injuries. I landed upon acupuncture (which, as someone who was afraid of needles, I thought I’d never do). And, remarkably, it was wonderful. I started reading more about Chinese and East Asian medicine, and was both amazed and totally confused.
The healing paradigm that I had grown up with was all Western Medicine. The biology classes I had taken all described the body in ways I was familiar with. But in all these acupuncture books, I was reading about water and fire, and the Taoist philosophies of looking to the natural world around you to gain a better understanding of the body. Very intriguing, and very different. If I hadn’t had such an amazing healing experience with my own body, I might have put all of this aside.
Instead, I started to have a funny little thought.
What if I could learn more about acupuncture and apply those principles to working with the land? What if knowing more about a healthy, thriving system, could add to the park I was looking to someday create?
Fortunately, I had given myself 60 years to bring this park into existence. A little 3 year trek into studying East Asian medicine couldn’t throw me too far off the track. And so I became an acupuncturist. I opened a clinic in New Orleans and let myself be taught by 1000s of patients over the next several years.
My time in the clinic was such a pleasure for me. And even still, I knew that there had to be something else. (Perhaps it was my 60 year plan pulling at me??)
So, I started asking questions. What more was there for me to study?
I came across Access Consciousness@, became a Certified Facilitator, and began traveling the world, facilitating all sorts of classes.

In these years of travel, I have had the enormous fortune to meet more amazing, caring people than I ever could have imagined possible. Though we are so often inundated with news of tragedies and problems, there is also enormous wisdom and kindness, just waiting to be mobilized.
And so I’ve begun to wonder, how many other people might like to play with the creation of a park? What if this ENTIRE EARTH were to become the park I’ve been asking to create? What would that take? How many people would be willing to create a park in the spaces they touch? What does that even mean? What would that look like?
Talk To The Plants is my invitation for everyone to play with the consciousness of the living, growing world that WE ARE A PART OF!
What if we step up our awareness, engage with the entire world around us, and invite it all to thrive?
WHAT LEGACY CAN WE LEAVE BEHIND?