I started my career in law, which is about as far from this work as it sounds. I didn't leave one life and step right into another. I took the long way around.
That's a big part of why I do this work now. I know what it's like when one question pulls at a thread and the whole thing starts to unravel: the job, the relationship, the version of you other people no longer understand.
I’ve left everything I knew behind more than once. I understand how it feels to grieve a past you chose to leave, to be terrified of what’s next, and to keep going anyway.
about
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
- Rumi
On one side was the legal world. Analytical, logical, demanding. Parts of it fit. Parts of it never really did.
On the other side was the spiritual world. It felt more like me, but I had several experiences where I felt unsafe, unseen, and pressured to be someone I wasn't.
Finally, I stopped trying to pick a side.
I didn't belong on a side. I belonged somewhere in the middle, on the bridge between those two worlds.
And that's where people usually find me.
On the bridge between something that's coming undone and something new that's beginning to appear.
When logic isn't enough, but neither is spiritual advice that never has to exist in the real world
Turns out, the bridge is where I do my best work. Join me.
- Chiara
For a long time, pieces of me were so at odds with each other, I felt they couldn’t possibly belong to the same person.
beliefs + values
that shape my practice
1. I am a guide but you are your own guru. Trust yourself.
2. If you find yourself at a crossroads, my job is to help you navigate what's next but you are in the driver's seat of your own life.
3. I deeply value honesty, transparency, and safety. Especially when it comes to anything spiritual. I've met more predators in the spiritual community than anywhere else. I said what I said.
4. If your spiritual community / mentor / practitioner contributes to feelings of shame, powerlessness, or self-abandonment, get the fuck out of there. They are the problem. Not you.
