I'm very excited to become a member of the Yggdrasil Talking Council following several years of reading the newsletters, doing mentoring with Yggdrasil mentor Joe Landwehr, participating in last year's Tracking the Soul Webinar and attending the workshop at Spirit Matters in Ontario, Canada. Being part of a forest community of visionary contrarians and working on the four soul tasks as outlined by Joe feels just right to this soul.
Over the years my focus has been on healing sacred wounds and to that end I've lived in a residential zen center for six years and have studied astrology continuously since I was first introduced to it by a Rosicrucian gentleman in a university without walls in Madison, WI in the late 1960's. After doing a solitary three month meditation retreat in a cabin in Maine in 1985, I felt empowered and motivated to get a graduate degree in Social Work, which I did in 1989. Subsequently my career has led to work with neglected elders in Boston, to crisis intervention, home health and hospice work in Maine and for the last 15 years to work in a locked psychiatric unit and detox facility in a community hospital in Maine.
Since getting my MSW I have studied Non-Violent Communication and Inner Relationship Focusing intensively in addition to my astrological studies. My studies and professional experience have helped me to understand how deeply wounded we are as individuals and as a culture, and I believe that my life experiences and skills can contribute to the soul development and healing of myself and others throughout my crone years.
