“But, What If I’m Woo?”

How woo are you?

A lot, or not at all, I’ll meet you where you are.

         My clients are: Both believers and nonbelievers. Devout and atheist. Psychically intelligent and magically inclined. Intuitive and unplugged.

(Let’s call unplugged “acoustic” because everybody, even nonbelievers, have the capacity to recognize their deeply held values and be in touch with a purpose that drives or guides them.)

Why are we talking about this?

         I know what it’s like to leave important parts of ourselves out of the room.

Identity and spirituality are really big parts to leave out. I remember when…

         Bringing important parts of myself to work was hard because my side-interests exploring spiritual stuff didn’t fit in conversation or creativity, so I kept it quiet.

         Bringing important parts of myself to church as a young person was hard because my queerness would have me lose the people I held dear as my community.

Where we meet

         Whoever and however you are, we meet in the work of your transforming or creating.

For some, that includes magic, spirit, religion, levels of intuition and psychic intelligence, in the mutual recognition that we’re part of a larger consciousness than the human you and the human me.

If that’s you, you’re welcome here. Let that flag fly.

My spiritual timeline

•      I grew up a preacher’s kid. In fact, had I stayed in the church and become a preacher myself, I’d be fourth in a lineage of them. Alas, churchy I am not. Dogma and I fell out a very long time ago.

•   At 12, I found my mom’s huge tome on astrology, Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs. Living in a chaotic environment, reading something that organized behaviors and desires so meticulously, based on … stars and times of birth?? ... soothed and fascinated me.

• At the age of 16, when my brother died suddenly, at 17, I was left to actively ask, “How do you have a relationship with a dead person?” He was here, he was of me and I was of him all of our days. And then he was gone. How can that relationship--our give and take, the current between us--be switched off like a light? How can a relationship that is sewn into your seams just be gone? I could feel the current continue in me, but where did it travel to? I could feel this continuity in me, but it had no outlet intellectually—yet. The question opened me up to wonder and explore to this day.

•  In my early 30s, I realized something was missing in my life when I got stuck in stopped traffic behind a car with a religious bumper sticker on it and lost my shit about it. I was fuming that that belief could so nonchalantly be shoved in my face. And, after moving zero inches forward while the light turned green three times, I got to sit with first my rage, then the reverb after the rage passed through. “Oh,” I thought. “I threw my spirituality out with the religion.” When I left, so did my relationship with anything spirit might mean to me. My reintroduction on my own terms started that day. Also, I was driving home to a haunted house, so… perspectives were creaking open everywhere.

•  My spiritual curiosity updated again at 36 when a long series of radical experiences that I couldn’t explain began to unfold, involving mediumship—and so I went on a decade-long journey to understand.

• Since then, my explorations have updated continually in meditation and mindfulness practices, classes and courses in mediumship and other phenomena, in Jungian dream work, learning from mentors about energy in its many forms, and following my curiosity about the ways we communicate, with our words, our bodies, our senses and beyond. 

• And, my favorite updates…listening to regular people talking about phenomenal experiences and relationships they notice and tend every day of their lives.

What’s My Woo-Style?

I’m a curious explorer. I listen, learn, try. I see how something feels, watch how it lands. If it expands my thinking and my heart, amazing. If it requires rules and codes, or asks me to compromise my or others’ safety and selfhood, I’ll leave that to its believers and move along. 

My own creative projects tend toward spiritual curiosity in the collective. Maybe it’s the community I grew up in, maybe it’s Neptune conjunct my MC and my first house Aquarius. Maybe it’s Maybelline, I don’t know. I am no longer certain of anything except what matters—

Connection, curiosity, reverence, relationship, generosity of spirit

I Love Spiritual Curiosity…

because it opens up the edges of possibility in my thinking, in meaning-making bigger than me, and it gets my imagination going—as a creative, almost anything that sparks my imagination is worth the peek. 

Purpose, meaning, healing, growth.

Intuition, energy patterns, clairsentience/-audience/-voyance.

Organizing systems like astrology, Tarot, Enneagram.

Nature. Animism. Somatic intelligence.

Mediumship and channeling.

If it offers sense-making, a feeling of connection, to self, to others, a divine source, structure to understand the unseen, let’s go. Mostly, if it’s part of your practice and is a communication tool or style for you, I’ll meet you there.   

Uh—Boundaries, please

Because of the upbringing I had, I know when not to bring woo into the room. I was brought up in a very traditional religious household, with restrictions. Through that and my last 20 years of coaching, I’m led by the room, and my clients in it.

I will not invite you into a cult – I don’t have one and I don’t have the time/bandwidth

I won’t demand that you spend money or time on crystals and accoutrements. 

I won’t suggest participation in appropriative or closed indigenous practices. 

I won’t part with logic or reason at any point, and I won’t ask you to, either.

If you’ve got magic in you, fly your flag. I’ll meet you there.

If not, we’ll meet at the intersections of curiosity, commitment, and lasting growth.  

Corporate + Can’t Be Woo at Work? I Got You.

Woo is important to me and a select number of my clientele. If you’re a corporate contributor and can’t be woo at work, there’s space here for you.  

One of my struggles has been what I’ve termed being a poet at a bank. Not being able to bring my whole self to work, or at least the parts that felt most generative to my creative function–because they were quite literally queer, phenomenally and colloquially, as in spiritual and LGBTQIA+. Leaving these parts at home made for fewer opportunities to be in connection as a whole contributor. They made me lonely and more likely to feel cut off, and maybe even find a different, more fulfilling job.

I’m out here to say, if that’s true for you, I see you.

Let’s make a space to create with all of you.