I am a shamanic practitioner and a medium, and before this I built a career in technology. I lived with epilepsy from fifteen to thirty, which my elders later named as the illness that calls a healer. I do readings, energy healing and direction, one to one.
My parents crossed an ocean for me.
They left South Africa and landed in New York City with one purpose, to give their child a life fuller than anything they could have imagined for themselves. Everything I am starts with that act of courage.
I grew up and found my place in technology. A world of logic, deadlines and results. I climbed it rung by rung until on paper I had all of it. Status. Financial security. An office with a view of the whole city.
Standing at that window, looking out at everything I was supposed to want, I felt empty. Not ungrateful. Empty. There is a difference. I had built a successful life and I had not built a meaningful one, and some part of me knew it.
The storm
At fifteen I had my first seizure. Epilepsy, the doctors said. For the next fifteen years I lived with a storm in my body I could not predict and could not control.
If you have never carried a condition like that, it is not only the seizures. It is the waiting. The constant quiet hum of when. It is learning to read your own body like a threat report, and building a polished, successful life on top of a secret. I climbed that corporate ladder with a storm in my skull, and it came with me into every boardroom.
What the elders called it
Back then I only had the medical name for it. It took years, and teachers I had not met yet, before I learned there was an older one.
In indigenous cultures across the world the healer does not choose the path, the path chooses the healer, and it often announces itself early through what the elders call a shamanic illness. A sickness that arrives in youth. One that doctors can name but never fully explain, and that medicine can manage but never fully tame. In those traditions it is understood as spirit knocking, and it does not go quiet until the calling is answered.
I lived with it from fifteen to thirty. In the same season I broke open, woke up and finally stopped running from this path, the storms went quiet.
I hold that part carefully. I am not telling you to trade your doctor for a drum. Medicine matters and I honour it. I am telling you what happened to me, and what my elders helped me see. Sometimes the thing that looks like it is breaking you is the thing that is calling you. My illness was not a malfunction. It was an initiation, and fifteen years of being forced inward was not a detour from the work. It was the training for it.
What happened next
One afternoon I got a hunch at a mall to go and buy a deck of tarot cards. I learned them in a week.
Then the dreams started, and they were not ordinary dreams. They arrived in pieces that had to be put together, and I had to learn how to do that too. Somewhere in the middle of all of it I was given a reading that told me I would be a shaman, and that I was a natural born medium. At the time I did not believe in mediums.
Who taught me
My ancestors did. They trained me, and then they led me to elders. African, Native American, Siberian. Different cosmologies, different names for the same things, and the same work underneath all of it.
There is a reason it landed where it landed. My father came from a line of shamans. His uncle was an Inyanga, a traditional healer in South Africa. Nobody ever sat me down and explained any of that to me. I found it out the long way round, which is how most of this arrives.
What I do
Readings, energy healing and direction, one to one. Tarot, numerology and mediumship. Energy clearing, shamanic journeying and soul retrieval. Sessions run one to one over video. An in-person meeting in Dallas-Fort Worth can be arranged on occasion.
This work asks for somebody genuinely in touch with the universe. Plenty of people hold judgements that keep them from ever being good at it, and that is the part nobody says out loud.
What I will not do
- I will not cast a spell on anyone’s behalf.
- I will not work on a third party. People arrive wanting somebody cursed, or wanting a reading pulled on a person who has not asked for one. That is a no, every time.
- I will not tell you to stop anything a doctor has prescribed you.
- I will not promise you an outcome, a cure, or a date by which it will have worked.
You bring the question. I tell you what I see. That is the whole of the offer, and it is why the first conversation costs nothing. If you would rather read something before you speak to anybody, start with what shamanic healing actually is.