The Magic Begins ✨
I was born in São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands off the coast of Portugal, and moved to Massachusetts when I was four.
Growing up in New England, I spent most of my time outside creating magical worlds in forests, searching for fairies, and pretending I was a witch who could shift the wind and change her destiny. I can’t remember a time I wasn’t obsessed with magic.
That longing to understand the unseen eventually found its way into writing, painting, dance, and storytelling outlets to share my heart and voice.
Finding Courage 🔮
Although I was sharing my heart on paper and in paint, I grew up battling anxiety, depression, insecurity, and cyclical feelings of unworthiness. I believed everyone else had life figured out while something in me was fundamentally broken. Over time, I lost a lot of my spark in patterns of psychological self-harm.
In 2019, my husband and I moved to LA, and during the six years we lived there, I poured myself into abstract painting and began to feel myself wake up from a deep slumber. I dove deeper into my spiritual practice, balancing eclectic, green, and elemental witchcraft with abstract expressionism, shadow work, and years of therapy.
Through that process, the idea for the Spiral Alchemy Oracle Deck emerged: transforming old wounds and repetitive cycles into self-mastery. Around the same time, I finally acted on a childhood dream to share my voice online, documenting my journey through creativity, healing, and self-discovery on YouTube.
The Spiral Alchemist 🌀
The work of becoming the alchemist of your own life is lifelong. I navigate its highs and lows through creativity, spiritual practice, and the act of sharing my story.
It is far from perfect. I battle mental health and hormonal challenges daily that can pull me back into old patterns of fear and resistance. But I continue returning to my art, my practice, and my voice because that, to me, is the real work of freedom.
If you feel stuck, lost, lonely, strange, disconnected from yourself, or afraid you’ll never figure it out, I hope you find comfort here. More than anything, I hope this space reminds you that transformation is possible and that you are never walking your spiral alone.