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The journey home

Now that I am free to be myself, who am I? —Mary Oliver

A powerful force lies within you. It is the love you give from the freest, most authentic expression of you. The you that is emboldened by the gifts that make you utterly and uniquely you. It is your heart, your soul, your vulnerability, your intuition, and it knows you are no less than magical. But through the process of growing up human, it became overshadowed as fear set in and constriction began. In order to fit in, first with your family, then your peers, and ultimately society; you learned to cover up your uniqueness and the longing inside you. Then as you got older, your defense systems came online ensuring your survival while effectively protecting you from all the fear and uncertainty life brings; and for awhile, it all just kind of worked. Until now…

Lately, you have begun to sense your old protections no longer serve you. They keep showing up in your relationships when you don’t want them to, and you are beginning to wonder if they are standing in the way of creating the life you dream of. But you don’t know what to do, or say, and you can’t imagine how you’ll ever get past the fear.

Fear creates a very effective biofeedback loop that ensures its own survival. It’s really very clever when you think about it, fear is afraid of itself, which ensures that it never accepts itself, which ensures that it always survives. —Richard Rudd

With our world offering so many distractions, you may not even notice the fear and pain, or maybe you have been doing what many us are taught - pushing past the pain and fear because you should be able to do anything with enough Grit and Grind. But none of it is actually working, and you feel stuck in a perpetual cycle of distraction or pushing and proving yourself to exhaustion and inauthenticity. Maybe you are here because you have felt your heart and intuition softly whispering there is an easier way.

Trust the whisper.

I say this through the weight of my experience. Over and over through work with myself and others, I have witnessed the ease that comes from accepting fear instead of fighting it. Within fear lies secrets meant to be mined. When you follow your unique path and recognize your powerful purpose, not only do you open more fully to love, joy, and imagination, but you feel true freedom to be you - your authentic self. Once that opens up, your trust begins to deepen. It becomes easier to let go, and let life envelope you in a loving, supportive way because you better understand its frequencies and patterns. When you can feel this amount of love, support, and worthiness, you are better able to love others in a more honest and unconditional way.

I am a mirror for you to see yourself through. Invite me into your life when you are ready to see your reflection.

Are you ready?

Does any of this sound familiar?

  • You have been living the life you are “supposed” to live, but feel utterly exhausted keeping up appearances.

  • You are completely lost as to what your gifts might be, and you know your energy is out of flow.

  • You are hiding your authentic self because you feel like it’s not okay being who you are.

  • You feel stuck in repetitive patterns of harm that keep playing themselves out in your relationships, and you can’t figure out how to disrupt the patterns to create new possibilities for yourself.

  • You have been giving love freely everyday hoping to feel love in return, but no matter how much you give to others, they don’t give you what you need.

  • You have caught the scent of your soul calling you, and are longing to be in a loving environment that connects you more deeply and intentionally with it.

The path we will take together is the one through fear because fear cannot be sidestepped, and we will go deep because the depths afford greater awareness and perspective. While this is not a comfortable path, it can be ease-filled if you are ready for it. Maybe even longing for it. Our journey together will be a combination of intimacy and aloneness, shadow and light, strength and surrender. We will align you with the energy that feels most authentic to you while leaning into challenge and balance. Along the way, I will offer you courage, curiosity, resilience, love, resourcefulness, lightheartedness, and acceptance. Above all, I will offer you something rarely, if ever, offered in our culture - Gentleness. And the deeper you go into acceptance and gentleness, the more your heart will open to pain, and the more pain you transform, the more love you will feel. I will be a resource and guide as you step through the portal of your fears, uncover your gifts, and step fully into the magic of you.

1:1 mentorship Offerings

Dragons & Buried Treasure

$275

One-time Offering

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

What if our dragons (or our fears) are not our enemies as most of us are taught, but our most sacred allies? What if you don’t have to fight them but could surrender to them instead? Fighting everything all of the time is exhausting. We aren’t taught that surrender and acceptance are also options, and that by softening you can explore the depths of you with greater sincerity and sustainability. Come with me, and let’s surrender to your inner nature and your calling. Let’s meet and get to know your dragons. As you sit with them and learn from them, they eventually reveal your buried treasure (your gifts).

While shadow work and deconditioning can take time, this program can be a first step to uncovering the magic of you. During our time together we will draw inspiration from the wisdom wells of Gene Keys and Human Design, and we will empower your courage, help you trust your intuition, and strengthen your resilience as you descend gently into your power and authenticity.

You do not have to be familiar with the Gene Keys or Human Design in order to work with me through them. You may have also been introduced to them but have no idea how to practically apply them to you. I’ve got you.

  • Schedule Our Time - By clicking the I'm Ready button, you can pay and schedule the time and date that works best for you for our first connection.

    Setting Intentions (30 min video call) - During this time, we will connect around your hopes and intentions for our time together exploring your Dragons and Buried Treasure. This is an opportunity for me to learn more about you, to get a sense of who you are and where you are coming from. I am also happy to answer any questions you have around me, the process, or anything else. We will schedule our 1.5 hr connection at the conclusion of this connection.

    In-depth Study of You - In the space between our first and final connection, I will explore your Gene Keys and Human Design profiles as well as integrate the material from our first call. I will also send you your profiles if you do not already have them so you can review prior to our connection.

    Dragons and Buried Treasure (1.5 hr video call) - We will come together and journey through your powerful potential. We will explore your current challenges and fears, and deepen your understanding of your unique combination of energetic gifts and how you can place them in service to yourself and to the world.

  • I utilize Gene Keys and Human Design similar to the way other mentors or coaches might use personality systems like Meyers Briggs, Strengthfinders, or the Enneagram. These systems work with archetypes which are universal patterns that appear in many forms common across human experiences, such as emotions, characteristics, or behaviors, and can help us better express and understand our lives. By using the archetypes in our journey together, we can more easily surface your unconscious hopes, fears, and longings in order to connect with your more authentic self. The key difference between the types of systems and why I prefer to use Gene Keys and Human Design is because:

    • Personality Assessments (i.e the Enneagram, Strengthfinders, and Meyers Briggs) offer a snapshot of who you are based on questions you answer. The results can’t help but include your conditioning.

    • Gene Keys and Human Design utilize your birth chart to help you understand your power and potential while opening a pathway for you to get curious around what you are here to do.

Fall in love with yourself

$250/Month

Monthly Recurring offering

“The apprentice to the soul is also an apprentice to love.” —Bill Plotkin

You’ve spent the majority of your life in service to others but have rarely, if ever, offered yourself your own love. I know this intimately for this was my biggest breakthrough. For all the love you have given away, this moment is for you. After setting our intentions for working together, we will utilize these sessions to explore your gifts and deep dive into the fears and shadows that are preventing you from expressing yourself fully and authentically in your life and relationships - this includes your work/business life. I draw much of my insight for my current work from 23+ years of experience leading others in business. I offer insights that support you through self-empowerment, building your business and/or increasing your capability and capacity as a leader of others.

Through our experience together you will:

  • Reconnect with your body and your heart, and attune to their innate wisdom and soulful music.

  • Deepen your capacity to love others by increasing your ability to love yourself.

  • Discover a gentler and more passionate and creative path through life by reorienting your relationship to fear.

  • Implement your unique gifts throughout your life (relationships, artistry, business) so you can initiate the life you want to lead and step into your most power-filled, fully accountable self.

  • Schedule Our Time - By clicking the I'm Ready button, you can schedule the time and date that works best for you for a 20 min meet and greet connection. This connection is free, and designed to help us both assess our readiness and excitement to move forward together. If we do, we will schedule our ongoing monthly connection(s).

    **If you have already worked with me through Dragons and Buried Treasure or in any other capacity, there is no need to sign up for a meet and greet. Feel free to reach out via email so we can continue our work together.

    2 hr Mentorship Session/month - By meeting on a consistent basis while allowing for time in-between, we will find the balance between challenge and integration. As we move through the journey together, we will make time to bring current problems to the forefront, work through them together and introduce new ideas that can shift mindset and engage with your fears in a gentle, focused way. During the time in between our sessions, you will have the space to integrate our work into real life. When we come back together we will check and adjust, and initiate the next moment. By meeting this way over a series of months (# determined by you and your needs), we create sustainability. Together, we co-create the space to breathe, integrate, ground, and practice in reality while building your courage and resilience to be fully and authentically you.

    Ongoing Email Support + Helpful Resources - In between our sessions, I also offer support through email for any needs that come up. This could include answering any questions you have around integration or sending healing meditations, yoga practices, and shadow journal prompts and/or resources related to organizational development and business strategy, people development and leadership best practices.

  • While this might be a more unique way of offering guidance through mentorship and coaching, I do so via a monthly recurring option vs a packaged offering because constriction is the physical manifestation of fear at an individual and societal level and both Time and Money are among the greatest constrictions of our modern age. I prefer to work with you in this way because:

    • As we journey through shadow work, decondition the body, and integrate your gifts holistically throughout your life and relationships, we can take our time and experience gentleness. Rushing and packing all of the work into a preconceived amount of time (such as a coaching package) is pressure-filled and the antithesis of creating new possibilities through gentleness. By being together in this new way, we challenge the status quo of pushing, forcing, proving, and instead, pave a new path where results still flow but in a more sustainable, breath aligned, and soul fulfilled way.

    • Being affordable and approachable is really important to me so it can be easier to say yes to You! For some, a lump sum payment up front can feel like a barrier to entry.

    My preference is that we do give ourselves at least four months working together because deconditioning and building skills takes time. I also offer a bi-monthly meeting option if you benefit from an intensive approach with less time in between meetings.

MEET YOUR Co-Adventurer

Image by Jamey Rabold

I live in a tiny house on a 30 acre forest in Midcoast Maine where my partner, son and I are evolving our eco-centric consciousness through forest stewardship, permaculture gardening, and thermophilic composting. I have 23+ years of experience in people leadership and business (for-profit and non-profit), and am now trying out entrepreneurship.

For the majority of my life I have been in an intimate relationship with constriction, stress and control; and at the climax of my struggle, I developed an eating disorder as a coping mechanism for my perceived failures. In an effort to find my heart again and connect with my soul, I sat with my fears, connected with my shadows, and learned the secret to their messages. I now take steps everyday toward healing, and no longer look upon fear with fear. Every day I take a step closer to coming home to the truest and freest expression of myself, and I have found my buried treasure - my gifts. I am an Initiator. I take visions from the dream state and bring them down to the earth plane. I know how to build businesses and help people find and engage their most powerful potential. If you are ready for this level of initiative energy, then let's go.

But I have also learned to balance the strong masculine energy of Initiative with my, now, equally powerful feminine energies of Sensitivity, Gentleness, Intuition, and Acceptance. I ask deep questions that seek to engage not only your mind but also your heart, and I listen. I listen to what you are saying and what you aren’t able to say yet. I see your fears and with curiosity and softness, I coax them to the surface. I use archetypal patterns to shed light and new understanding on your limiting beliefs. I bring courage and resilience so you can step through the portal of your fears, befriend your dragons, and uncover your buried treasure so you can fall in love with yourself, and grow your capacity to offer love and service to others and the world.

“Being a woman in leadership can be lonely. And sometimes the universe provides other incredible women, whom you admire, to walk alongside you during the journey. Working with Andrea has been the gift I didn’t know I needed. To transform our relationship into the deep, dark, and rich soil in which I get to continually discover new microorganisms of myself that I never knew existed. It has changed the way I see myself. It has changed the way in which I function in every aspect of my leadership from how I lead my family to how I lead my teams at work and in the boardroom. Andrea is a mirror that when reflected back to you is crisper, cleaner, and more beautiful.”

— SHALENE ONYANGO, Executive Director, Longmont Community Justice Partnership

“There are very few people in my life that I look at and say, ‘I want to be who they are.’ Andrea is one of them. Her ability to see people, to see me; her ability to share power; to voice concern; and say when she feels fear and still be the strongest woman in the room…I am in awe of every connection we have had. She is the embodiment of the root chakra for me. She so skillfully grounded me with her presence. She made me feel safe. Andrea brought me a sense of belonging and opened up my ability to care about myself.”

— KIANA ENGLISH, Program Coordinator, Mirror Image Arts

“Andrea is fierce. She is comfortable with discomfort. Andrea’s superpower is her capacity to listen—listen deeply—and really hear what is underneath the surface. Truly, Andrea is one of the most gifted listeners I’ve ever met. Andrea can facilitate tapping into your own innate wisdom—she asks courageous questions to draw out the answers you didn’t even know you had locked inside you, but she does so with gentleness and compassion. Andrea reflects back to you your highest self. She sees your potential, often before you see it in yourself. If you want to work with Andrea, you must be ready to truly be seen and understood! And be prepared to grow and thrive!”

— JULIE RADA, Chair of Visual & Performing Arts, Community College of Aurora