Being a Soul Authority transformational life coach is the natural and seamless integration of my roles as a licensed clinical psychologist, a shamanic eco-psychologist, a meditation teacher, and a certified Depth Hypnosis DH practitioner (DH is an integration of regression therapy, Buddhist and transpersonal psychology, energy medicine, and nature-centered wisdom).
I have 30+ years of professional expertise in helping gifted, neurodivergent, highly creative, and high-achieving wisdom keepers (between the ages of 5 -75!) embrace being born leaders and change catalysts. For more info about my unconventional backstory and career path, click here: About Me & My Big Why page.
No matter who knocks on my door, the first order of business usually is challenging and exposing their biggest blindspot and block: Sensitivity Shame© and self-blame (often posing as anxiety, impostor syndrome, and self-doubt).
This poses a huge obstacle because LEADING YOUR LIFE WITH SOUL AUTHORITY® (and the confidence and wisdom that accompany it) requires coming out of your SHELL, cultivating SELF-TRUST (by making mistakes!), honing your SOUL AUTHORITY, and OWNING your natural GENIUS ZONE®.
The GREEN LIGHT to proceed in a new life direction or not (whether trailblazing or tentatively) needs to be given by ONE BOSS and ONE BOSS ONLY - YOU - the ULTIMATE SOLE AUTHORITY OF YOUR LIFE.
YES - this means daring to lead when approval, support, validation, or permission are still lagging.
NO - you WILL NOT fall flat on your face, look like the biggest fool, get fired, or terribly fail and lose everything.
Those you are meant to guide WILL FOLLOW and GROW along with you. Why am I so certain of this?
Because I have taught hundreds of sensitive wisdom keepers 5 essential Soul Authority® skills that helped them to shift from being a Struggling Empath to becoming a Super Empath (see below - What's a Super Empath?).
My ONE-STOP (not the same as one-size-fits-all!) SOUL AUTHORITY® self-mastery system is for serious and sensitive wisdom keepers, healers, and change leaders who are:
Tired of their (and other people's) BIG FEELINGS and MOODS BOSSING them around or LOGIC trying to OUTSMART their INNER WISDOM
CRYSTAL CLEAR what their issues, trigger points, or patterns are, but confused or foggy what to do next to CATALYZE CHANGE
Not interested in more DAPPLING or another patch to sew on a haphazard, PIECE-MEAL practice that blocks instead of boosts DEEP HEALING
Need A FIRE-TESTED transformational system to take BRAVE BABY STEPS© and ALIGNED VS BLIND ACTION© to obtain LEGIT TRACTION
Ready to exchange MONEY FOR MOMENTUM, LASTING RESULTS, and EXPERT GUIDANCE
CAL students who have WELLFLEET (I'm a UCD alum and have 28 yrs of experience working with UC students)
Many highly sensitive people (HSP) realize as early as in kindergarten (me) that something is not quite right. I shed more tears than my siblings, friends, and cousins combined, and was flat-out told that these tears were ‘crocodile tears’ and not real. Why? Because they lacked ‘good reason’ — as if feelings ran on logic. In grade school, HSP like me often get teased for being cry babies. I was even sent to the principal's office so she could address my excessive crying.
Sensitivity Scapegoating© and Sensitivity Shame© — terms I coined — are rooted in age-old persecution fear and modern-day mistreatment that scare HSP into self-sabotaging our power and scattering our energy. They are the result of pervasive neuroformative and capitalistic pressures to perform and produce according to social norms and standards of success that disdain our neurodiversity and sensitivity and regard them as weak, inferior, and fragile.
Sensitivity Shame© can disguise itself as SORRY, NO ACCESS or BREAK FOR YOU, as a deep-seated insecurity, social/performance/generalized anxiety, self-consciousness, self-loathing, depression, impostor syndrome, rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD), ADHD, and/or fear and confirmation of failure, not being "good enough," or being broken. It is hands-down the biggest confidence block, relationship blindspot, and opportunity cost that hold big-hearted BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) wisdom keepers and women leaders back from realizing our fullest potential.
CLICK HERE: WHAT IS SENSITIVITY SHAME©?
A super empath is a well-adjusted, self-actualized Wisdom Keeper who's masterful at transforming stress and daily overwhelm into creative inspiration for personal and collective healing. Super empaths are a lot like Mother Trees and Redwoods. They're spiritually mature, generous, and interconnected.
They're optimally wired to serve the greater good, but they're also very susceptible to Sensitivity Shame© and Sensitivity Stress© – absorbing tension, shadow issues, and negative energy that aren't theirs due to their empathic super powers, big hearts, and tendency to put themselves last.
They have trouble advocating for themselves because of their avoidance of conflict and risk. For that reason, they're under-appreciated and neglected (at best) and "endangered" (at worst) especially in top positions. They need and benefit from protection, support, and empowerment that compliment their unique strengths, mindset, and lifestyle.
Super empaths thrive when able to set fierce, protective boundaries, resource from within, and use their gifts and super powers to create lasting transformational impact through their life missions.
Wondering if you may be an empath too? Take this 2-minute free empath test and learn about common challenges that trouble empaths and the highly sensitive wisdom keepers I guide to help determine if we are a good match.
AM I AN EMPATH? QUIZ
As a child, I cried at the drop of a hat. I spent hours fretting about a harsh reprimand or mean look or tone. I preferred to be alone and play in the magical Amazon rainforest that covers 95% of my native Suriname, imagining that I was Mowgli.
After a military coup uprooted my family, we moved to the concrete jungles of Miami. I coped with the loss of my safe sanctuary and most trusted lifeline to my true self during the awkward middle school years by becoming selectively mute, pretending not to speak English. I didn't know how else to hide.
Decades later, my rigorous studies, certification, and extensive training in clinical psychology, shamanic practices, meditation and mindfulness fundamentals, energy medicine, Buddhist psychology, regression therapy, eco psychology, and Depth Hypnosis quantum leaped my healing. Despite these shifts, I continued to struggle with public speaking (and past-life persecution) terror and resisted stepping into my calling as a transformational leader and trailblazing Wisdom Keeper.
Supported by my dream team of spirit guides, I wrote and shared my story in Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist's Memoir of Spiritual Awakening in 2017. Since then, I have talked to audiences, big and small, online and in person, on podcasts and radio shows, at conferences, retreats, and book stores. I'd learned so much about overcoming crippling public speaking fear that I even became a WomanSpeak (transformational Toastmasters) group leader for a few years!
These transformations have allowed me to reach and empower hundreds of other wisdom keepers and super empaths— sensitive experts, soulpreneurs, transformation agents, thought leaders, executive directors, coaches, psychotherapists, healers, teachers, and academics—over the decades in fields such as mental health, medicine, social justice, law, engineering, conservation, the arts, business, community organizing, and integrative health.
They inspired me to design my signature SOUL AUTHORITY® self-mastery that offers wisdom keepers the structured guidance, skill sets, and tools they're seeking and needing to protect their biggest assets—their clarity, convictions, and inner wisdom. My second book, Soul Authority: Liberatory Tools to Heal from Oppressive Patterns and Restore Trust in Your Heart Compass, emerged out of this intention and work and was published in April 2022.
I believe that when we deeply heal on the soul level and feel our sacred central tree in our inner sanctuary having our back, we will once again dare to trust our BIG HEARTS instead of our BIG HURTS. We will get that we MUST attend to and trust our BIG NEEDS in order to achieve our BIG dreams.
NO QUESTIONS ASKED about all this when working with me. I GET IT and I GOT YOU.
in MindBodyGreen
If you were lost in the woods, would you follow a compass that was leading you in circles? Would you stay quiet if the guide you were with insisted that their compass was more accurate than the navigational clues you were picking up from the sun, the mountains, and the current of the river?
Of course not.
And yet, so many of us don't trust our sense of inner knowing on the journey through life.
in MEDIUM
Many highly sensitive people (HSP) realize as early as in kindergarten (me!) that something is not quite right. I shed more tears than my siblings, friends, and cousins combined, and was flat-out told that these tears were ‘crocodile tears’ and not real. Why? Because they lacked ‘good reason’ — as if feelings ran on logic. In grade school, HSP like me often get teased for being cry babies. We get in trouble for being too much or too little in comparison to the norm.
in Thrive Global
The Glitch That High IQ Can't Fix
Arianna Huffington’s signature “tough-love” intervention in her 2018 Open Letter to Elon Musk brings an important point to light. Lack of genius is not the reason why Elon’s leadership abilities are lacking and under fire (called it!)
Arianna is well-known for leading Thrive Global’s wellness revolution by challenging negative cultural trends, such as the 24/7 work ethic mass delusion and lack of sleep."
in MindBodyGreen
I was born and raised in Suriname, the most forest-covered nation in the world, with 98% tree cover. "Nature Deficit Disorder"—a term that author Richard Louv coined to describe how being disconnected from nature can harm health—was not something I needed to worry about growing up. However, it plagued me nonstop after moving to the concrete jungles of Miami, attending a middle school that had no windows, looked like a warehouse, and felt like a giant freezer.
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