Beauty from Ashes, is “our memoir” about my little daughter’s life, tragic death and the global magical mystery tour I ended up taking unwittingly to scatter her ashes, like fairy dust to sacred places around the Mother Earth. This is a story about how unbeknownst to me by using my spiritual practice as a map with my angel as my guide she whispered to me through spirit and nature for my own awakening.

In this trial by fire story, fire is a theme as well as a metaphor for healing. Beginning with my own traumatic past with the death and destruction of actual fires to pressing the igniter to light the fire for my daughter’s cremation to how over a decade later, I participated in puja rituals in Nepal and sat observing the burning of funeral pyres in Varanasi, India where a sacred flame eternally burns on the banks of the holy Ganga river.  

After burning through lifetimes of karma and several generations of trauma that resulted in a very dysregulated nervous system, my transformation happened when I became my own “flame keeper” by learning how to self- regulate and modulate my nervous system and ultimately access my own inner fire and power eventually rising like a phoenix from the ashes of my traumatic past.

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