Radiant Compassion

12/17/2025

❄️ Spent Saturday morning at Light on the Hill - together in community, we released what we wanted to from 2025 and explored what we’d like to cultivate in the year ahead. Ritual, community and being witnessed are always such grounding, nourishing experiences for me ✨✨✨❄️

And while I’m over here talking about Light on the Hill - one month left for Radiant Renewal early bird pricing! 🌸☀️ I know we’re in winter hibernation now, but trust me, we will emerge in a few months! Reserve your spot for renewal: April 10th-12th 2026 - all the details in bio ✨✨✨

12/02/2025

Uplifting this beacon of light right here in central New York! Light on the Hill is dear to my heart as a sacred refuge and a grounding community 💛

Join us in recognizing at Light on the Hill.

The glorious sunrise in this photo reflects the potential that is held in generosity.

Giving Tuesday is based on an abundance mindset – every act of generosity has the potential to make a difference, and we are all capable of generosity.

Light on the Hill invites you to join us in uplifting the world through radical generosity—acknowledging our shared humanity and working to make the world a better place.

Donate now at https://lightonthehill.org/about-us/support/

[Photo credit: Don McKechnie]

11/28/2025

🍁✨💛Happy gratitude season to you! 💛✨🍁

Wishing you moments of peace and ease. A time where grief and joy often wrap together, I hope you’re being gentle with yourself 💞

Evan and I hosted Thanksgiving for the first time (heart full!) and feeling especially grateful for our families this year 🤍

11/11/2025

✨I’m filled with excitement to share I’m offering a retreat at Light on the Hill, a place I hold near and dear to my heart, this spring! 💚✨

✨Introducing Radiant Renewal, a weekend carefully crafted for self-nourishment, inward connection and cultivating self-compassion. Slow down and reconnect within through gentle Kripalu Yoga, guided meditation, mindful movement, group Reiki, reflective journaling, community and grounding time in nature.✨

✨Our experience will be held by the beautiful land of Light on the Hill Retreat Center; set amongst 236 acres of woods, streams, gorges, walking paths, and panoramic views in Van Etten, NY. Truly magical, healing land 💚 Connect with the rejuvenating energy of Springtime while in sacred community, and emerge with loving tenderness toward yourself and an overall sense of mind-body renewal.✨

✨I hope you’ll join us! This has been a long standing dream of mine in the works for years and I cannot wait to share this beautiful place and these nourishing practices with you.✨

✨Link in comments for details, schedule and pricing - early bird pricing until January 15th! Message me with any questions✨

11/10/2025

✨Such a dreamy Reiki Yoga last night ✨✨✨ So sweet to come together in community and be supported by nourishing Reiki and held in the abundant and letting go energies of Autumn. Waking up to the first snowfall this morning felt like such a timely transition, moving toward the hibernation of winter 🍂❄️

What’s present for you in this time of gentle seasonal transition? How might you honor all that is shifting around and within you? 💛

10/27/2025

Starting this Wednesday evening, join me for slow flow Kripalu Yoga ✨✨

We’ll be exploring the 7 chakras, one each week. These energy centers offer a wealth of guidance and support - we’ll embrace them and encourage inner balance through gentle yoga, meditation, mudras and more 💛

Link in comments to register, sliding scale available

📸 Yosemite Falls rainbow magic 🥰

10/13/2025

Hey friends, it’s been a minute since I’ve posted in this social media world. I’m happy to share I’ll be offering a Reiki Yoga Workshop in November 🍂🍁✨🥰 Time to slow down, be held by the nourishment of Reiki and restorative yoga, and embrace the qualities of autumn. A potent time to give yourself this gift of rejuvenation ✨✨✨

I’ve been taking my time slowly returning to my work life - holding space for others’ healing is a responsibility I don’t take lightly, it’s an honor and privilege. My daily life is of course an ebb and flow of grief waves, and as I re-engage in my work world, I’ve found more and more avenues for compassion and the remembrance that we are all interconnected, a powerful oneness 💛 It’s energizing, enriching and beautiful to return to teaching 🥰

Let’s be together 🍁

November 9th 3-4:45pm in Ithaca. Sliding scale available. Link in comments 🍂

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08/05/2025

Just wanting to share my appreciation for the true outpouring of love and support Evan and I have received in the past several weeks since our son’s passing. All of the cards, texts, flowers, meals, company, hugs, tears, laughs and other tokens and offerings of love and support. In a time where there are no words, knowing we have a whole village of humans mourning alongside us has truly been deeply comforting. I have felt loved and held in a way I can’t even articulate. It all honors his life and joy he brought into our worlds. Thank you 💙❤️✨✨

07/14/2025

TW: pregnancy loss

This is the most vulnerable post I’ve ever opened myself up to share. Evan and I lost our sweet baby boy at the end of June, just shy of 6 months pregnant. We are devastated and heartbroken. Nothing in life can prepare you for this unimaginable loss.

Our boy revived a deep sense a hope and joy within me. He was a light in the darkness of my father’s recent passing and every day I thanked him for choosing us as his parents. His little kicks inspired a love I’ve never known.

Having experienced the grief of miscarriage over the past several years, we are all too familiar with the devastation of pregnancy loss, how the grief can change you to the core. Being this far along and hopeful, his arrival in sight… its an incomprehensible level of heartbreak.

In this difficult time, what’s anchored me most is my love for Evan. To have him by my side in the worst moment of our lives, to go through it together, I really don’t have words for a love like this. I know, somehow, we will trudge through this side by side.

In the past, I chose to navigate our experience of miscarriage very privately, though that only caused isolation. Moving through this openly and authentically feels like the only way through - I don’t even know what that means yet, but no part of me can just carry on as though everything is fine. I know a loss of this magnitude will change my whole existence and I know even the deepest suffering can spark connection.

We are grateful for our families, our mothers and the vast village of friends who have immediately shown up to share in our heartache and hold us as we grieve the loss of our beloved son 💙

06/22/2025

Was busy frolicking with friends in Ithaca on the Summer Solstice 💛 Wishing you an abundant, revitalizing and expansive summer season ☀️🍓🦋🪴🌈🍉🥰

In times of difficultly, wishing you a moment of sunshine on your skin or a cool breeze as a pause to come back to yourself 💚

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06/18/2025

Sunday was my first Father’s Day without my dad physically here. I talked to him, a bunch, but it was sad not getting to make a phone call, hear his voice or pick out a card to mail him. It’s been only 2 months since his passing and it’s hard to settle in this new world.

So I spent the morning in spirit community and then went for a long walk in the woods with my pup - he always liked to walk and hike and always asked about Nori whenever we’d talk. And potted some dahlias ❤️

Trying to be a little more open in this loss in real time in this weird social media world. Grief feels like the most human thing for me to feel and be present to. I was touched by how many people checked in on me, friends who’ve lost parents gently offering, “the first one is the hardest.” Suffering can be connecting if we remember it’s part of the human condition, we all experience it. All that I’ve studied on equanimity, compassion and suffering is being re-integrated in this new world. Anyways, that’s what’s going on in my little corner 💛