“Even if you hate the fact that you have white privilege and do not agree with white supremacist ideology, if you are white or a white-passing person, you are still a beneficiary of a system that oppresses non-white people… So you have a duty and a responsibility to use the privilege that this system has given you from birth to dismantle it - both within yourself, in your communities and in your institutions.”
- Layla F. Saad, I Need To Talk To Spiritual White Women About White Supremacy (Part II) Open Letter, October, 2017
Welcoming
If you are considering working with me, you may want to know about my social and personal identities. I share this as part of my personal and professional work of re-envisioning and recreating individual, family and community cultures of kindness, collaboration, peace, and equality from the inside out and from the outside in.
I am a woman. My “race” is “white.” My lineage is western european and mexican. I am cis-gendered and straight (though I lean into circles and spirals more than straight lines). I was born and raised in the rural northeast of the US.
What also feels relevant and important to me are my ways of seeing and being….
I am a granddaughter, daughter, sister, mother.
I offer thanks and prayers to my ancestors.
I am a creatrix- a writer, painter, dancer, plant healer, wellness weaver.
Love is my greatest strength.
I have the ability to sit alongside the pain
and sing the strengths of my human siblings.
I have survived trauma and postpartum mental health crisis
and what I learned has strengthened and
re-aligned me with myself.
I am wildly
whole and wounded
tender and fierce
magical and commonplace.