This is Council.

I hold this space as a mother, a scholar, a bodyworker, a neurodivergent queer woman who has studied healing for decades and lives it every day.

After obtaining my Bachelors Degree in Psychology from UNC, I trained at Naropa University in Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling. I hold a Masters Degree in Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I completed PhD coursework in Women’s Spirituality there too. I’ve spoken on decolonial motherhood at Boston University and in several online circles. My background is in psychology, but my wisdom lives in the body, in the spirit, in the unseen.

Spiritual activism is the practice of shedding your conditioning and coming back to your most authentic, empathetic self. It’s where the personal meets the political. It’s using your spirituality in service of the greater collective good. It’s centering your growth, not as vanity, but as strategy. Because if we can’t be better humans, we cannot build a world rooted in equity, care, or justice.

Mother-wisdom is ancestral intelligence moving through the body. It’s the kind of knowing that doesn’t come from books, but from birth, death, and everything in between. This is the wisdom of the Nepantla Nantli—the mother of the in-between, the one who midwives truth across thresholds. I am not a guide who claims to know the destination. I am a witness who holds the lantern when others can’t see the path.

Memory work is the practice of listening to what lives underneath the stories you were told. Memory work means reclaiming the parts of you that were shamed, dismissed, or erased—by family, by culture, by systems that were never built for your wholeness. Memory work is also ancestral, remembering what belongs to your lifetime, and what you’ve inherited from those who came before you. This work calls the soul back.