am a total wild child from the heart of Alaska known as Fairbanks. It took quite a bit of moving, traveling, settling down, getting back up, moving again to learn some hard lessons about life. It's as they say 'wherever you go, there you are' - or something in that vein, and its true. So when I left my little hometown of Alaska, I was running away. Running away from my problems, my health issues, my anxiety & depression, old relationships, the works. Every time I landed somewhere new, many of those things would dissolve for a time. I would think "now this is the place I'm meant to be and NOW everything will get better" effortlessly, right? Wrong. Where I went, there I was - all my baggage I thought I left behind would eventually end up on every doorstep like mail that was lost and then redirected to the new address. It was in that cycle I was lost and truly needed to redirect my attention to core, root causes to my problems. 

an alaskan wild woman discovering peace

I developed a panic attack disorder when I was around 19 years old and it lasted throughout almost all of my 20's. It was a pretty wild ride to say the least and my already sensitive gut health quickly deteriorated along side it. My pain body, as its often referred to, was just that - constantly in pain. I went from hours of cardio, dance, weight lifting, and snowboarding to physically unable to do any of it. My heart would flip out, go into arrhythmias and I developed some sort of asthma that made me feel like I was suffocating. This all just spiraled out for years, didn't exercise almost at all, and couldn't go on hikes with friends without having a panic attack and heart & lung issues. I was misdiagnosed constantly for my diet guidelines and found my already rocky relationship with food becoming more & more contentious. All-in-all, I really lost my mind a few times, and played in shadowy places of the psyche that had me really questioning life in a darker manner than I had before. What was the purpose? What was my purpose? Why any of this? I may not have all the answers, but I did find a few!

In my darkest moment, contemplating life & death, I knew I had to do something more in order to heal. Death wasn't an option, so life had to be. It seems like the obvious answer and I was trying hard to get well, I just wasn't doing all the things I needed to. That was the question I went off to discover - what were the things I needed to do for my healing & health? 

During this time I was going to UAF for Biology, and was pretty deep (yet struggling) into my bachelors. I studied some psychology as well, but all of it just didn't feel fulfilling. I felt there was more or something missing, but amongst the issues I was experiencing, I didn't exactly know where to start. I already had a large nutrition background, was strictly pescatarian with a heavy lean on vegan for years, and yet I couldn't get my gut health under control. My anxiety was a total racket, and my mind was all over the place. What was the answer to my physical and mental health problems, and "what was I missing?!" - I screamed into the void. 

Well, later that year my sister came to visit from California and brought me an Ayurvedic vegan cookbook. I had no idea what it was but it laid Ayurveda out quite simply in the introduction. As I began reading it, I started getting this feeling I often get when I am hit with truth, inspiration, and revelation. It sinks way down into my stomach and rises quickly into my heart, a welling up that then sends electrical fireworks to my brain. It was talking about the mind-body-spirit complex and the health of each connecting as a whole, through the Ayurvedic lens, which actually means 'the knowledge of life'. I felt like I struck gold! That's the missing piece - mind, body, and spirit!

I was young, but I couldn't believe I didn't think of it before. My mind was constantly whirling though, so I am not surprised. What an ancient treasure revealing itself to me, I was beyond ready to unearth its secrets! Long story trying to be short, it led me to many beautiful things, starting with Vipassana style meditation, somatic movement, energy work, reiki, channeling, massage therapy, acupuncture, learning my Ayurvedic body type & its needs, pranayama, astrology, and so much more. All these modalities and many magical people along the way, helped me reconnect to my self as spirit, realigning me with my highest expression. 

Now it's my honor and privilege to help other people along their journeys of transformation & alignment, to gain clarity & insight, and reconnect to their intuition, body's intelligence, and peace of mind. My work is of the mind-body-spirit complex because it is how I returned whole to myself after many, many years of feeling completely fragmented. It is with all the love & light that I have, that we can all become the most radiant, empowered versions of ourselves. This is our divine birthright. 

MEET Ariel

"When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change"

- Avatar The last airbender