About Me
Like all of us, I play many roles in life. Personally, I am a husband, father, friend, and family member.
Professionally, it is a true honor to serve as a:
•Heart-Centered Quantum Catalyst Healer
•Personal Growth Teacher
•Certified Transformational Life Coach
•Licensed Acupuncturist
•College Professor
•Certified Massage Therapist
While all these roles are important on one level, they do not define me. At my core is kindness; an ocean of compassion and a deep well of wisdom, cultivated over the course of many decades of professional service and personal exploration. Of struggle and searching, breakthroughs and healing.
I am an explorer of life with a mission to be of service. My mission now is to help you awaken, to your shadow and your light, so that you can live a life that you truly love.
The Curious (and confounding) Paradox of Being Human
As a highly sensitive soul, I have never truly felt at home on the Earth. I am a mystic at heart, spending many an hour alone with my journal and my spiritual practices, contemplating the nature of the universe. I think big thoughts, feel big feelings, dream big dreams.
As a soul, a spiritual being having a human experience, I know that the fabric of all life is made of Love. I believe in a life of joy and unlimited possibility. Of magic and abundance. Of deep synchronistic connection. I believe that everything is light.
So, why does daily life feel so heavy? Lonely. Confusing. Overwhelming. And deeply frustrating and disappointing.
The reasons for this could fill a book (which I am in the process of writing, by the way). But here’s one big reason: As a sensitive being, what I’ve always needed most was love. Kindness. To be seen and heard and understood and welcomed by the world.
But what I got was the opposite of what I needed. Instead of meeting my sensitive nature with kindness and curiosity, I’ve often been dismissed with a curse that I have heard from many throughout my life: “You’re too sensitive.” Early in life, a lonely sadness had come over me.
Daily Human Life
As if my own inner struggles weren't challenging enough, there were 1001 myriad and mundane aspects of daily human life that also called for my attention. Work, relationships, money, physical/emotional/mental health, sleeping, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, dishes, eating, personal grooming, and more. And when I became a father? That’s an entire world unto itself!
Is it any wonder that daily life felt so heavy? So utterly confounding and deeply frustrating and dissatisfying?
The Other Side of the Equation
Meanwhile, another imperative was at play. As a soul, I longed to fly free, to grow, expand, express my creative nature, my authentic highly sensitive self. To connect to the magic of the Universe itself.
And the spiritual mind moves at the speed of thought. Want to write a book? The soul says “Go! Do it. NOW!”.
But the body; the human mind; is filled with fear. Resistance. Subconscious programming. Limitation. The confines and distractions of daily life. And does not want to move.
This inner battle between the soul’s longing to grow AND the human need to stay the same was grinding my mind to a nub.
It. Was. Maddening!
Breakthrough
This way of living was unsustainable, and I had to find a different way to be in life. So, slowly, over many years, I changed my approach. I am turning toward my sacred soul as the only true source of the life that I seek. In truth, I am my soul. When I remember that, it changes everything.
Instead of hiding--from the world and myself--I now embrace my sensitive nature as the blessing that it is. Instead of running from fear, I am learning to make peace with it. Instead of splitting myself into several parts, I am learning to see it all as One.
It is not, nor has it ever been, an easy path, this feeling of being caught between two worlds. But I can say in this moment that I am truly and deeply grateful for every moment, for I have grown immeasurably and learned many hard-won truths along the way.
And, the most profound and potent truth that I have learned is this: That the way to the life that I am called to live lies in befriending myself and surrendering to kindness. Quantum Kindness, toward all of me – my brilliance and my limitations, my light and my shadow, my joy and my suffering. And to my innate longing to grow.
This truth, born of decades of professional experience and personal exploration, infuses my work as a healer, coach, and teacher.
And, if I can change, so can you!
Foolish Being
Finally, there is a Buddhist philosophy that I cling to; it’s called “The Bombu”. Literally translated, bombu means “foolish being”. It holds that all humans are foolish beings, spiritually blind and stumbling around on Earth. And that we all deserve unconditional compassion. This notion touches and calms me on a level that words cannot express. And so, my fellow bombus, I invite you to join me on this ride called life. Let’s stumble through it together.