My Story

Music has always been a huge part of my life, beginning with singing with my mom as a toddler, and continuing with vocal and piano lessons and performance through adulthood.  My first composition, “The Caterpillar,” won a school prize at the state level when I was only seven.  It reflected how I felt inside and what I heard in my head when I saw something as small and tiny as a beautiful little caterpillar. It was my first glimpse of what I would come to fully understand later–that uniquely for me, every human, animal, or object in nature, has a melody or sound.  And contained within those sounds is the vast range of emotions we all experience. 

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Fast forward to an education that led me to a successful 15+ year career in marketing, where I often used my music skills. I am particularly adept at taking a complex idea and humanizing it, telling a story, and creating the music and visuals to go with it. I also wrote music for side projects all along the way. 

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A defining moment came in my late twenties when I fully separated myself from the very high demand religion into which I was born. My deconstruction and healing was helped along by the wonderful world of psychedelics and some wonderful therapists. The first time I ever experienced psilocybin paired with music it changed my entire life. It was like I had never listened to music before and my mind exploded with creativity, love and understanding. I felt then that music, and in particular, my music, could help heal people in a bigger and more profound way than I could imagine. I thought about how, when I performed in front of an audience or shared a song I had composed with someone, I always got the feedback that they felt something significant. People expressed that they felt healed in some way, and felt that I took them on a journey, that I told them a story about themselves. I realized early on that it was at least in part due to the intent I went with into the performance or composition. This realization got the creative wheels of my mind turning.

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Soon after I reconnected with an acquaintance who happened to be a licensed ketamine therapist. Fortunately she trusted me enough to listen to my ideas and give my music a chance. Her clients’ experience became significantly elevated with intentional music. It was tailored to the way she practiced, they felt more emotion, and they healed faster.

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From that moment on I started to understand what my calling in life actually was-the middle ground where psychedelics, therapy, and music meet. JourneyWaves was born.