First off: hooray for new beginnings!

I am excited to begin this leg of my journey as a natural health practitioner and healer, and want to say thank you so much to those who have tagged along with me thus far. Without you, I would not be able to make a living at doing what I love to so much, and am very grateful to you all!

So I’ve been at this healing gig for some time now… ten years is a bit of time for sure, and that’s only including the time with a diploma attached to my name so that I could make it my work, as well as my passion! Until now, I’ve just stuck with my name for my company (…boring…), but was just engaged in Massage Therapy for the most part anyhow. Now that I have so many more options to offer to my clients, I felt I needed something more all encompassing (I’m so punny!). With that in mind, I began looking at my goals for not only myself, but the people I aim to help as well. My main goal: enhancing the fine art of self-awareness in myself and others, so that we might all live our most authentic lives. From that space, we are more able to hear our individual truth, and therefore to act on it.

This covers a whole lot more than it might appear at first glance… this literally touches each and every corner of your life. If you’re ignoring a pain in your body, it will grow and worsen until it gets your attention. If you’re ignoring the signals that your body sends to tell you that a food you’re eating is not serving you, it’s going to make you age much faster and make you feel sicker by stressing your system repeatedly. If you are ignoring that growing discontent with a job or relationship, eventually it will either be much more difficult to extricate yourself from it, or will blow up at you to force the change that you’ve known had to come (but kept ignoring the signal). All the information that we need is in there, we just need to take the time to listen, and remember how to! We also need to remember how to trust ourselves… something that is usually lost very early in the game in our current world. Not only does the art of self-awareness enhance our health, it has the power to enhance our lives, and the world around us. When we are living our potential, engaged with being our healthiest, happiest, & most balanced selves, we have more energy to give to the world around us (including the people closest to us). When we take the time to listen to ourselves deeply, we discover the things that truly matter to us the most, and how to make those things the dominant parts of our lives. This is my work: to make the world a better place by helping people discover their potential, overcome their obstacles, maintain their health, and rediscover their authentic selves.

… okay, but why ‘North Star’?… It’s the guiding light! Rediscovering who we really are is the greatest journey of our lives, and it is my goal to act as a humble guide on your journey. I cannot take the steps for you, I cannot give you your health, I cannot give you happiness; what I can do is share my knowledge, experience, and compassion in the hopes that it may help you find your way through the dark. I also wanted to create something bigger than just myself within such lofty goals, and thought that a company and all its trappings was the way to go. So from this place, I would not only like to thank those who have joined me thus far on my journey, but to thank all those who choose to use my light (or other lights that I may bring into the sphere of North Star) to find their way in the future. May North Star shine brightly for many years to come!