I am a white, cis-gender, fat, queer woman in a currently able body. I exist on the neurodivergent spectrum as someone who lives with ADHD, though with medication I am able to move through my day to day life in a way that appears neurotypical.

I am in the upper middle economic class, own a home with my married partner of 17 years, who I am emotionally and financially supported by- love you B. I have a master’s degree, am a citizen of both Canada and the US. I grew up speaking English as my first and only language. I had significant childhood trauma and have used talk therapy and more recently IFS focused therapy to support my wellbeing.

I am a mama to 2 incredible humans who have been the best and most challenging experiences to happen to me.

The place I call my home and place of work is situated on the traditional territories of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, comprised of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation at Neyaashiinigmiing and the Chippewas of Saugeen. I give thanks for their stewardship of the land and waters and for the rich diversity of their cultures. As a settler, I will live on this land with respect and gratitude. 

I am committed to reconciliation. With humility, I acknowledge the historical and present-day colonization of traditional lands and Indigenous Peoples throughout Grey Bruce and across Canada. I recognize the failure of governments to honour treaties and am committed to advocating for them to fulfill their treaty obligations. I believe in the right to self-determination that is built on mutual respect and gratitude. 

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I offer a sliding scale for my services, along with personalized payment plans. There is no increase in price for a payment plan, it is a set cost spread out over an agreed upon time period. Payment plans are available to invidiuals and small businesses only. I don’t want cost to be an obstacle for folks to work with me AND I live in a culture and system that requires that I generate income in order to exist.

I am committed to charging equitably for my work (as in, accordance with and consideraton of my own time, training, and labour) and I am equally committed to making my work accessible while creating sustainable income for myself.

Due to my frustration with systems of oppression and harm caused by white supremacy, cis-heteropatriarchy, capitalism, anti-fat bias, misunderstandings about neurodiversity, and settler colonialism, I work to start within myself to disentangle my own relationship with power and privilege and intersectional identities which I hold, which can look like deep personal reflections, hard conversations with people I love, and seeking out communities of care to listen to understand.

I am always working to be a student of the world with a beginners mind, and desire to look for the messy middle, to be with the discomfort that comes with doing liberators work, and be honest with myself about what my capacity is within different spaces.

At this moment in time, accountabiltyfo rme looks like having an ongoing commitment to learning from perspectives I don’t hold, to reflect within, to sit in the uncertainty of not knowing all of the answers, and allowing myself to be open to changing my mind. I seek to colloaborate with folks accross lines of difference more times than not.

To the folks who I have learned from, who have taken the time to teach, who have put themselves out into the world to model what is possible when we listen to understand, to say the quiet parts loud, and to be brave in the face of despair. Most of these folks don’t know me, but they have changed me for the better just the same. Knowing that there are others who believe that our work in the world is to show up as our messy, imperfect selves, have hard conversations, and as Andrea Gibson reminds us, to love. To love. To love. And to love more deeply, and keep going. That dear one, is the magic sauce right there.

To Raudhah Rahman, for leading the way in how we show up online, on our websites, in the yoga space, to speak truth to power and keep going. Your example of a Value Statement on your website is my gold standard and I am grateful.

To Kate Baer, gosh what your words have done to my soul. Forever changed, And Yet still here. Miraculous, indeed.

To Sonya Renee Taylor- for the reminder that our power exists in the bodies we have, right now- no apologies.

To adrienne maree brown- for the knowing that the scared lives within all of us, and the quickest avenue to get there is through pleasure. For the call to action of imagination of what is possible when we get out of our heads and into our hearts through words, song, prayer, and screams. For the words small is all- an emergent strategy to reimagine our humanity.

To Kate Bowler- for highlighting the beautiful, mundane, ridiculously short, and heartbreaking truths in our humanity.

To Wally Lamb- She’s Come Undone broke me open in the best and darkest ways possible, it was a trailhead in my late teen years and reminded me of my own power.