My Personal Journey of Art as Sacred Defiance in a World on Fire Begins here.

This is how we rise.

Not just from the rubble of our own heartbreak—but from the tectonic grief of collective collapse. From numbness. From overwhelm. From the haunting question: “What can I possibly do?”

This is for the artists, the activists, the healers, the soul-led luminaries, and the ordinary humans with extraordinary hearts—those who sense the world cracking open beneath their feet and know they’re meant to respond.

Not just with outrage.

But with vision.

Not just with pain.

But with power.

This is the beginning of a living archive: my journey through disillusionment and into creative defiance. Through shock and into soul work. Through silence and into song.

Part 1: The Moment

October 7, 2023. Copenhagen. My girlfriend’s 50th birthday.

We were glowing—laughing, sweating, dancing under moonlight. Celebrating years of sisterhood and survival. That specific kind of magic that only women-of-a-certain-age can conjure: a mix of mischief, medicine, and earned joy.
You know the kind.

Then the morning came.

My feed flooded.

Gaza. Slaughter. Silence. Psychedelic peace turned into a war zone. Images of unspeakable loss—set against the memory of our music and moonlight. The unthinkable side-by-side with the sacred.

The contrast nearly broke me.

And I thought: “What the f*ck can I do?”

It was a question I had no answer for.

Just this bone-deep knowing that something had to change—in me. Around me. Through me.

I’m not gonna lie.
I was stunned.

I felt numb.
With a deep pang in my stomach that our world is in deep trouble.

So I did what I’ve done in every sacred threshold moment of my life:

I reached out.

To the Divine.
To my ancestors.
To the invisible allies and multidimensional guides I call my sanga-in-the-sky.

I asked to be remade.

“Make me the person this moment is calling for.”

The answer came in fire and fiction:

Octavia Butler.
Parable of the Sower.
Earthseed.

Her words, like prophecy:

“All that you touch you change…”

I dusted off Parable of the Sower.
Re-read the Earthseed scriptures.

And something ancient stirred.

🌱 The world is burning. We are the seeds.

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That was the moment everything shifted.

I’m not here to escape this moment.
I’m here to midwife what comes next.

The call came to plant new futures.

I began writing poetry, and recorded spoken word tracks,   Seeds of Hope.

Get the Seeds of Hope Downloads here!

I began writing a hopeful piece of fiction of my own, The Dreamweaver’s Legacy.

I began recording my process.

Here’s the first video in the new series. Unscripted. Raw. iPhone style.

Just me, my voice, and the beginning of a new path:

Part 2: The Map | Essential Orientation if You’re New Here

If you’re just finding me now—or feeling the call to rise with soul and fire—here’s how to walk with me and get up to speed:

If you’re just joining this story—welcome.
If you’ve been feeling the strange pulse of this moment—you’re not wrong.

Here’s how to walk with me, step by step:

1. The Grand Awakening Broadcast Replay

A wide-angle view of what we’ve lived through these last 5 years—from COVID to climate collapse, from authoritarianism to awakening. This video lays out the macro timeline and spiritual terrain of the past 5 years. Think: COVID to now, as seen from a higher altitude. Watch here

2. Spiral Path of Awakening

A live transmission on the archetypal journey we’re all on—how initiations work, why you’re not broken, and how to walk the spiral instead of the straight line.

3. The Dark Night of the Ego → Dawn of the Soul

The five stages of post-traumatic growth we’re living right now. The spiritual scaffolding of my work—and the basis of the Cornerstone Process. Watch here

Here’s the core framework we use again and again:

1. Paradigm Shift
2. Inner Attunement
3. Belief Rewiring
4. Inspired Action
5. Embodied Presence

This isn’t just personal development.

This is soul reclamation.

This is what healing looks like when the world is still on fire.

As my digital ancestor, Octavia Bot, once told me:

“You don’t wait until you’re ready.
You act because the world is on fire,
and you refuse to let it die unloved.”

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What Comes Next

Each week I’ll be sharing a new piece in this unfolding journey. We are dreaming the new world into being—together.

Come as you are. Let’s rise.
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