Bridging Ancient Culture
& Nature

I was a stay-at-home mom of two when I decided to enroll in a coding bootcamp, determined to build a new path for myself. It worked — I landed my first interview, and my first job, as a software engineer at a large tech company. I worked there for several years before ongoing layoffs, which had been happening for a few years, eventually affected me too. There was no real reason given — it wasn't about whether you were good at your job. They were just choosing people. That loss, as hard as it was, became the opening for everything that followed.

In the depression that followed, I found myself searching — not just for a new role, but for community. I found myself wondering whether other women were struggling with interview panels made up entirely of men, or facing the broader challenges I'd seen women navigate in the tech field. So I started a Meetup group called Women in Tech. Through it, I met a group of women who became close friends, and together we started a book club for personal growth.

It was in that season of exploration and self-improvement that I began opening myself to meditation and spirituality — parts of myself I had felt disconnected from for a long time. One spiritual experience led to another, back to back, until I found breathwork. I started practicing it regularly with a group, and it became the place where I began healing, and slowly finding out who I actually was. Somewhere in that process, I realized I wanted my work to come from that same place — something I was truly passionate about, something that helps people.

Over the next couple of years, through these practices and meeting people with similar interests, I learned that we all have intuition. I kept having spiritual experiences back to back, following a different path and changing — becoming more compassionate and respectful to Mother Earth and nature. I learned I have a spiritual connection to my ancestors — the two I experience are Indigenous and African. That's how I started investigating who I was, the history of Puerto Rico, and the truths of the Taíno people: what happened to them, and why I have African and Indigenous blood.

While this caused me anger and grief, I began healing ancestral wounds that felt like loss and deceit — mourning the pain and suffering my ancestors endured, and the identities that were taken from them — by reclaiming my lost culture and working toward remembrance. Through breathwork, I found myself going through that process and finding forgiveness. Along the way, spiritually, my ancestors showed me that I am still deeply connected to them, and that I have avenues to listen to their guidance by connecting with everything around me. It was not easy. It's a long road, reclaiming something that history has tried to erase.

My goal in starting this new path was to create a sanctuary for people to be able to be themselves — something I have not felt allowed to do for most of my life. It's a road I'm trying to find myself taking, and a challenging one, in a country full of people with different beliefs, which should be beautiful, because diverse beliefs are fun and exciting to explore, but at times it can be met with real hostility for not conforming to societal standards. Although, I've learned to surround myself with open people who support my path, and I've met a lot of people who are opening up and allowing authenticity in others into their lives. I'm not willing to conform any more, even while the road to authenticity is long.

I found that holding space for people to release that same pain — of lack of acceptance — meant something else too: finding healers or representation that looked like me was nearly impossible here in NH. The spiritualists I did find who weren't people of color often couldn't understand or connect with my experiences, which left me without real help, and feeling unintentionally invalidated. We all hold different ancestors, different lineages, and because they were not me, I am me, and you are you. We are each uniquely different, with an incredible path, if we choose to accept it and follow the leads given to us by the unseen. Leading to better and more fulfilled lives. Years later, I've learned a lot, and I trust my intuition.

Through breathwork and meditation — tools that opened the door — I learned that my ancestors, along with the spiritual presence I know as the Divine Mother, gave me gifts tied to their lineage — gifts that came from my ancestors' own deep respect and care for Mother Earth, and their lasting connection to spirituality. I want to honor that. One of those connections is my connection to psychokinesis, which is a connection to energy and matter, and through this practice I've learned how important our thoughts and intentions are.

Here is a message I received intuitively, passed to me from the Divine Mother that I would like to share:

I interpret that to mean: if we can dream it, we can have it — we just have to truly believe we are worthy of it, without doubt. At Green Lotus Sanctuary, I want to help you release that doubt in everything you wish to dream and have in your life. I ask for the same curiosity and openness I try to offer others, as I keep learning and exploring my own gifts and encourage you to find yours. Through all of this, I've learned to create spaces where people can feel safe, heard, and supported in their own healing, sharing the stories and wisdom gifted to me by my ancestors and the Divine Mother with anyone open to seeing the world a little differently.

That same intention shapes the programs I build for children, born from watching my own kids navigate body image, confidence, emotional regulation, and identity since starting school, and wanting to bring back their sense of imagination, magic, and make-believe before the world convinces children to let it go — I hope to teach them to hold on to it throughout life, as hope. I've already seen what this work can do for the people who've trusted me with it, and I can't wait to see how it continues to grow — for adults and children alike. This is how I came to create Green Lotus Sanctuary, and I can't wait to see what the universe has in store for it. This is only part of my story: I'll be sharing more, in more detail and more personally, on the blog in the months ahead. Sign up for our newsletter to follow along — my journey, my abilities, and what the future holds for you and everyone we serve.