I have been an empath (highly sensitive) since childhood. This allowed me to understand people well and carry everyone’s emotional baggage as my own. Depression and not-enoughness weighed heavy on my heart. My parents separated and left me living with family during my formative years, and this only amplified the heaviness of those emotions.

Years later, I reunited with my mother in the states, but these feelings were now a pattern.

No matter what, I felt unwelcomed, separate, and outcast. As a young single mother of two, my mom worked day and night. My brother and I had way too much unsupervised time in our hands. I sought guidance and support from a man I loved and saw a father figure who did not have my best interest at hand. His guidance served to validate how unworthy I felt for the next decade. 

I ran away at 17, thinking I was running away from all these feelings and chaos, but they stayed with me. Overworking, partying, hard drugs, and alcohol were just some of the ways I mistreated my body and avoided myself. I am not going to lie I had so much fun, but deep down, I was still running away and in pain.

I developed a toxic relationship with myself. 

I didn’t feel I could be loved even though I had a partner that deeply cared for and respected me, yet I was not in a place to accept it. I secretly did not love myself, yet no one knew because I was conditioned to hide behind my smile. This poison I had inside would express itself as uncontrollable anger and depression that I didn’t have an explanation for. I just thought that’s how I was. 

Thanks to a hard breakup and a lot of grace, I started studying Eastern Philosophy and practicing Yoga and meditation seriously; traveling solo, self-study, and theater work were the important pillars of self-discovery that started to show me who I was beyond the feelings, thoughts, sensations and the many roles that I play as a personality. 

I started to identify more with my unchanging essence than with the content or context of any experience.

This essence is what I'm interested in connecting people to. Our heightened awareness and our ability to choose moment to moment and honor the power of creation inherent in us. To create consciously is to learn to take responsibility for our actions and our experience. 

I work with a powerful system called psychosynthesis that combines Eastern Philosophy, the study of the Self, and psychological practices of western science that explores the unconscious. This supports people in the integration of their shadows and their potential so that they can lead their lives as a whole and complete individuals armed with the tools to explore their consciousness on their own moving forward. 

If this interests you, book a call with me. I have a gift for helping people reframe their stories and overcoming the blockages keeping them from living out their soul’s purpose. 

With love,
Sandra