The Woman Behind the Work
The path here wasn't straight. It was sacred.
the soul is always leading the way
I guide people across the threshold of consciousness
— often on the hardest day of their lives.
I'm a nurse anesthetist. For more than two decades my job has been to guide people across the threshold of consciousness and back — safely, precisely, often on the hardest day of their lives. I still do.
Hi I’m Laura
I live on the coast of Maine with my husband of twenty years, our two grown kids, extended family nearby, and a dog named Bodhi — short for Bodhisattva, which probably tells you something about how I think. The operating room starts early and I drive an hour to get there, so my day begins before the sun: a little time outside under the last of the stars, or somatic practice, before the commute.
It's a simple life — spacious and enchanting.
God Is in Every Detail of Your Life
My life has been a study in the soul's journey — and for more than sixteen years, a deliberate one.
Somewhere along the way, I came to know that the sacred is everywhere — in everything, including our deepest pain. Not above us but within; not outside the trouble but in it with us. It speaks through me, and through every person, and it doesn't much care what you call it. Prayer and meditation aren't things I do so much as how I breathe. I see God in the details. I read charts, energy patterns, symbols, myths, and archetypes the way other people read the news.
Getting lost Is Part of the Map
I'm also someone who's gotten badly lost and found the way back more than once — divorce, recovery, disability, chronic pain, sudden loss. That's how it starts — the quiet undoing of a life that looked right on paper.
I didn't transcend any of it — I crossed it.
Through many a dark night and more than one awakening, and learned to follow and trust the one thing that was always telling the truth: my soul.
Living in
Alignment
Today, my life is surprisingly simple.
What's left, after all of it, is simple.
I've boiled my life down to what matters:
living in alignment with my soul and true self, and doing only what meets that bar. If it doesn't, I don't do it. Living this way isn't harder, though it sounds like it should be. It's just lighter — it costs less to be yourself than to keep performing someone you're not.
The Offering.
That's the work I offer too — helping people read their own soul's map — what I call Soul Cartography — and learn to live the life it points to. Same work, different threshold.
A Personal Crossing
And showing up here, in my own voice after a lifetime of keeping quiet behind a mask and surgical drape, is a threshold crossing of my own.