My Breakthrough & Coming Home Within
I’ve been thinking a lot about this path. Awakening… there isn’t one path.
There’s not a single moment when the light breaks through and everything makes sense. Sometimes it looks like your life cracking open in slow motion while you follow a pull you can’t explain.
The most important lesson I learned is that there isn’t one way, one path. The most beautiful part is once you clear the bs out of the way you begin to express and pursue what your soul truly came for.
Navigating the Last 5 Years and What I Have Learned Along the Way… For me, it didn’t happen all at once. It unfolded between 2005 and 2010, but I know without a doubt that 04/07/2012 was a turning point. A few days later, I got my first tattoo — peacock feathers for transformation. It marked the beginning of the Phoenix oath and the courage to step into a bigger version of myself.
After that, I followed every desire and curiosity that rose up.
— Essential oil blending
— Aromatherapy
— Crystals and malas
— Astrology
— Human Design
— Gene Keys
— Painting and every art medium I could find
— Resins
— Natural botanicals
— Vitamins and minerals
— Yoga and movement
— Whole foods
— Plant medicine
— Retreats and circles
— All the books, podcasts, classes, courses, and every single breakthrough along the way
Every bit of it served a purpose. I don’t regret a single step.
And what I know now is that no one’s path needs to look like mine. We awaken the way we awaken. We heal the way we heal. My journey was training. Initiation. Preparation so I could hold others through theirs — as an art therapist, a mentor, a guide, a friend, and a partner in transformation.
This is what gave rise to Alchemy of the Breakthrough — the place where we stop trying to become someone else and finally learn how to become more of who we already are. The place where the patterns make sense. Where the pieces click. Where your intuition gets louder. Where your body becomes home again. Where the next chapter feels clear instead of overwhelming.
It’s the space where you are met, seen, and supported as you step into the version of yourself you’ve been circling for years.
I gathered pictures for each moment below because I wanted this to be personal and vulnerable. These aren’t just memories. They are the breadcrumbs that shaped me, the symbols that guided me, the art that cracked me open, the initiations that carried me from who I was into who I am now.
Lil Personal Insight and Visual Storytelling about my Awakening
A glimpse into the timeline of my path, the symbols that guided me, the art that shaped me, and the moments that opened me.
Essential oils intuitively blended for each Human Design type.
Every bead I used was hand-selected and gridded to make healing and activating jewelry in 2021.
Sketches from 2020 that prepared me for the oracle and tarot cards I designed this year.
The reading when I knew I was leaving Denver, fully self-taught and reading cards intuitively.
Art I made in high school that inspired a mala for my emerald year. My birthday fortune said, “In every moment of life you should be what you ought to be.”
My favorite stack of beads ever: prehnite, serpentine, fluorite.
A drawing from 2016 of my first chakra meditation for the third eye. I didn’t know yet that the hawk was my medicine.
My paint palette for the painting coming up, and all the mala bracelets I made during the pandemic. The colors were in every stack.
The lemon tree I nurtured and helped grow, paired with lemon citrine.
The painting that became my journal through rejection, meaning-making, heartbreak, and grad school. Twelve years. Finished in 2018.
Aura photography before and after plant medicine. Taste the rainbow.
Discovering Blue Lotus. Botanicals are truly something.
Tucker giving me the stink-eye while I played with him. I’m wearing my wings (hawk and dragon), my favorite protective piece that now has holes.
Gaia’s food and the Most High’s gift of dragon fruit and mangos. This fire dragon survived Samara’s dry heat because of the juice.
Old book poetry and art. Passion uncovered.
The 400-year-old Guanacaste tree at my second retreat. Magnificent.
Sister Shanti’s Dragon House roundtable, 12/01/2021 — the first time I saw myself more clearly.
My awakening tattoo: peony with peacock feathers, and my first citrine. I went big. Leo Rising energy.
My first mushroom ceremony. “Daughter, you are that. All beauty. No separation.”
Bananas grown on the property — and yes, I ate every one.
The best grilled cheese of my life. Queso Rico and smoked Amanita salsa.
My first retreat hosted in Costa Rica with my Denver girlies. Sunset light codes.
Bird of Paradise in Hawaii. Ran down the path like a geek, fully alive. Lemurian energy everywhere.
Full moon in Libra and bougainvillea before the most intense retreat I’ve ever hosted. 4/4/2024 eclipse.
Fairy cup mushrooms. Magical jungle moments.
The night before a Big Island initiation, 11/11/2024 — closing the cycle that began at Sister Shanti’s retreat.
A fortune found on the floor (from Denver 2021) just before the Scorpio New Moon, 11/20/2025. Breakthrough complete.
A tiny frog I rescued and released from my Costa Rica bathroom. A reminder to rest and receive.
Losing my keys in Costa Rica on 11/5/2023 and never finding them. Then losing them again in SC and finally finding them on 11/07/2025. Closing the cycle with trust and the Most High.
Joshua Tree sunrise codes at the Cholla Garden — a bucket list moment.
The Tepi that called to me in 3/2025 at my fifth retreat. Preparing for the January retreat. Clearing the way for 2026.
My favorite Hawaii photo, taken right before fire ants christened my cleavage after I shook out a fallen bloom. Lesson learned. Tiny but fierce.
October 2025. Hawks circling at sunrise, just like my third eye drawing from 2016. Integration complete.
My favorite print-on-demand baseball tee — “Women don’t owe you shit.” Liberation begins with us. Available on my website and Etsy.
I think I love this lil life. It has had its ups and downs, but looking back now, it has all been so amazing, pretty sweet, and I have so much gratitude from this higher vantage point.
There comes a moment when you can feel your intuition speak before your mind catches up. A shift in the energy. A quiet knowing. A full-body truth that whispers this is it. Most of us learned to ignore that voice. We learned to shrink, shape-shift, stay polite, or blend in so we did not make waves. We stayed in situations long after our intuition clocked the vibe because it felt safer to go along than to trust ourselves.
But we are not here to play small or pretend we don’t know what we know.
We are here to trust our instincts.
To honor what our body feels.
To stand up instead of dimming our light.
To walk out of rooms that cannot hold our truth.
To stop abandoning ourselves to avoid discomfort.
It’s time to stand up, rise in our truth, and in our lives… to break through.
The more you choose you, the clearer everything becomes. Your intuition sharpens. Your energy settles. Your path opens.
If you are ready to stop shrinking and start trusting who you really are, this is your moment. Your intuition is not overreacting. It is guiding you home. It’s time to claim all of you and reinvent yourself through integrity and authenticity.
My Collective Role as an Initiator and Awakener During This Time
As a 1 3 Splenic Manifestor, I am designed to initiate truth, activate awareness, and ignite evolution in others. My body carries mutative circuitry that supports this shift:
• Gate 57 — intuition
• Gate 38 and 28 — breaking patterns
• Gate 12 — emotional truth
• Gate 11 — perception
• Gate 36 — emotional disruption
My path has required radical self acceptance and emotional regulation. Every twist, rupture, and heartbreak was not punishment. It was preparation. I was forged in fire so I could see what others miss and guide them through their own awakening.
My job is simple: tell the truth. Awaken those who are ready. Support emotional evolution. Translate intuition into direction. Ignite breakthrough.
Why You Feel Called to This Work
If you found this space, your body already knows something is shifting. You are likely one of the three roles in the mutation. You are being invited to:
• regulate your nervous system
• trust your intuition
• deepen emotional honesty
• dismantle inherited patterns
• lead with coherence
• prepare yourself and your community
This is not about fear. It is about readiness.
You are not here by accident.
You are part of an evolutionary team.
Stepping Into the New Awareness
This is the time to build community, strengthen the nervous system, deepen emotional intelligence, and create coherence in your relationships. The mutation is not coming — it is already here, pulsing through the intuitive, the sensitive, the awakened, and those breaking free.
If you feel the pull to step into your role — Carrier, Guide, or Stabilizer — our community is designed for this work. Through Alchemy of the Breakthrough and our gatherings, you will learn to regulate, listen, lead, and rise from truth.
You are part of something larger.
You are not random.
You are here to support the future.
The energy of this season, with its retrogrades, eclipses, and cosmic recalibrations, is asking us to pause and harness the power of reflection rather than resistance. These aren’t chaotic times, though they can feel that way. They’re initiations. Invitations to root into trust, to shed what no longer serves, and to anchor our light in something deeper and more enduring.
Each of us is a vital part of this collective evolution. What we discover, heal, and embody doesn’t stop with us it ripples outward, shaping the frequency of our families, our relationships, and the greater world. When women gather in intention and love, the field changes. We create harmony, peace, and ease not through force, but through resonance.
And yet, this path isn’t without its challenges. Growth stretches us. Change asks us to let go of what once felt safe. That’s why returning to community is essential. The era of hermiting, of doing it all alone, is ending. It’s time to gather again to witness one another’s becoming, to share laughter and tears, to remind each other that we were never meant to carry it all by ourselves.
The Circle is where we return home to ourselves, to each other, and to the sacred rhythm of life moving through us all.
If something in you is waking up and you’re craving clarity, connection, support, or simply a place to land, you’re invited to walk with me. Whether you’re beginning, returning, or closing out a cycle, Alchemy of the Breakthrough is here for the deeper inner work and ongoing guidance as you move through your shifts.
And if your body is asking for a full reset after the holidays, Asheville in January offers five days of rest, laughter, embodiment, sisterhood, reconnection, and remembering your magic.
Both paths lead into our main community circle because we are committed to supporting those committed to themselves and the journey.
Choose one, both, or none. It’s up to you.
You are the expert of you.
Whichever path you choose, your heart already knows it’s time to return.
XO—Amy
