How my journey to liberation began
In the not so distant past, everything I knew about my life was turned upside down. I lost or was forced to leave everything I had worked so hard to achieve - my job, marriage, and home. Everything was gone. I was suffering from chronic illness while caring for my young child, who had been unexpectedly injured. And that job I was working so hard at was not loving me back. I could not achieve the elusive trifecta for which I longed - abundance, freedom, and wellness.
That time tested every life lesson I thought I knew about life and that I'd been sharing with others for all these years just in case I wasn't paying attention. Liberation is about recovering well, aligning, and tending to your mind, body, and spirit. Liberation allows you to connect and reset with unapologetic rest and power. It will help you know what to do next but, more importantly, what you're not going to do anymore.
About Michelle
A near-native with over 20 years of leadership in the Pacific Northwest's healthcare and wellness industry, Michelle has held a post on almost every healthcare level. Acknowledging that we can't heal alone - that we heal best in our community - they strive to put the "we" back in wellness.
Michelle has launched an oncology clinic for UW Medicine, and they've spent a few years of training as a hospital chaplain. While serving as chaplain, Michelle discovered the connection between reflective practice—also called mindfulness—spiritual and emotional connection, and physical and mental health.
Michelle is a graduate of Seattle University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and is a provisionally licensed clinician in Washington State. A transformational servant leader on campus and in the community, Michelle is a 2020 National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellow for Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Their passion and clinical interest live in supporting mental and spiritual wellness. Michelle has adopted grief and joy as the primary strategies for liberation while building a thriving mental health and wellness and spiritual practice. Michelle is an agent of liberatory change, supporting leaders and organizations with anti-oppressive business principles and strategies.
Michelle respectfully requests 'they' pronouns and possessives as non-binary gender identity and an ancestral practice in reverence of and linkage to their unnamed ancestors of unknown lineages, languages, and genders.
Recently with the advent of COVID19 and the national attention toward the impact of police brutality on the Black community, Michelle has partnered with cross-sector organizations, Parenting for Liberation, The Well, Families of Color: Seattle, UpstreamUSA, and local elementary schools to hold sacred spaces for Black folks, families, parents, caregivers, and organizations with Black employees and leaders.
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