We weave 50 years of combined clinical training and practice with our giftings as intuitive practitioners to effectively teach you a step by step method to access, develop, and apply your second sensing skills to get past stuckness in your life and work with others. We facilitate a state change into Fullness that increases your effectiveness to impact the lives of those you work with and to transform you.

I was ready. After having 4 children and working part-time through diapers, nighttime feedings and nursery rhymes, I was poised to take the next step in my career and follow what my heart most wanted. Around the time I was considering a new position, 6 red-tailed hawks showed up in a tree behind our urban home and stayed for 10 days. Shrieking loudly and leaving many "gifts" of entrails on our back deck, I knew this was not a coincidence.

I had no idea what I was doing. My religious upbringing didn't look kindly on the sacred communication born of the natural world. Yet, my feet compelled me to go outside each day for 10 days and stand beneath their perch, staring up at them. All I could squeak out in the midst of their ancient and haunting shrieks was, "I'm listening." Each time I would utter the words, tears poured down my cheeks. 

Shortly afterward, the veil into thin space fell in my experience and my intuition blossomed open. I railed against what my mind stated could not be and my training as a psychotherapist negated. Still the inner drumbeat persisted to return home within and step into what I knew to be my primary way of knowing, understanding and connecting with the world, both seen and unseen.

A painful pathway of undoing ensued. I saw the illusions of my life falling away and a wiser, higher voice rose within me and beckoned me to lead with my intuition, subtle sense awareness and clairsenses in my life and my work. There was no going back. The way forward compelled me to follow, and I slowly realized that this was a way of being that I had known my whole life, especially as a young child. 

For a period of time, I thought I would need to leave behind my professional world, one of aptitude and accomplishment, to follow this experiential way of working and living. The work made itself known as my inner world filled with an abundance of love and gratitude. As I connected with my own truth and I found myself naturally evoking the truth that lies within us all. 

In early 2022, my eldest son was hit by a car and died a few feet in front of me and my world collapsed. In the painful months after his death, there was a larger awareness emerging of the fears that I had held dormant. I had never considered myself an overtly fearful person, yet this life-changing event was awakening in me deeper holding patterns, stuck places I didn’t like to look at, and an inner itch to pay attention in a new way. 

I decided to intuitively follow and track my inner process. There was a healing movement that was already there alongside the deep well of grief. I was surprised at what opened. In the deep places of my unconscious, there was light, a state of Fullness that was cracking open each time I brought my awareness into the fearful ruts. It’s almost like they dwelled together as one. The pinprick of light was activated when I entered the fear. I wasn’t consumed by it. I wasn’t mired in it. There was a pathway out of it and my state of Fullness was the answer.

Common Awakening was received as a vision and as a result of a deep yearning not to separate from our daily living or essential work while we follow an awakened path. Rather, the call emerged to embed the intuitive, subtle senses in our work and life with validity and acceptance. There is a wiser, higher and knowing place of truth within you. From this vision, we offer you a position and a process to apply your own spiritual subtle senses in your context in a way that is relatable, integrative and transformative. 

I said yes to making the call after my third, painful fall. I had a growing sense of inner dis-ease and as I caught my foot on the coiled, greed garden hose at the top of our deck and careened to the stone cold patio below, I said outloud, “Ok, I’ll go!” I had known for some time that something needed to shift— to open— but my roles as a professor, psychotherapist, trainer, mother kept me quietly searching for the answer on my own. As I lay on the concrete patio I knew the time was now. I didn’t have a choice. 

I was a skeptic, so I didn’t expect much from the session and I didn’t say much about me. I simply welcomed some pain relief for my throbbing jaw and hip. What I experienced was life altering. I entered into a state that naturally connected me to something beyond myself and I felt my perception expand. Energy began naturally moving and clearing, freeing patterns I had worked on for years. I felt lighter, clearer, and connected in a way that I couldn’t quite name, but I could feel. I was in a different State—a receptive, open, expansive space—where I was being moved back into me.  

I knew in this moment that it was time to step away from the safety of my titles and training into the subtle world of energy.  

It took a few years, but during my sabbatical year as a professor I took my largest leap and was trained in energy medicine.  In my training I learned to let go of the mind and follow my subtle sensing. Having support from wise teachers, I stepped back into something oddly familiar (even with all of the Ninja butterflies in my stomach) and I took the risky step of beginning to incorporate subtle knowing into my professional work and teaching.   

It wasn't an easy path to follow. I gave up my position as a professor and faced criticism and questions from my professional community. I remember the day I opened my store front energy practice in a small town with buggies driving by and felt the rising fear of being so visible. “Can I really offer energetic intuitive healing in this way? In this place?” My mind was sure that I'd face scorn and that those from my religious community would not want to come.   

What I found was profound.    

Many of those I worked with naturally entered the same State I had first experienced where clearing happened naturally— without the use of effortful interventions or complicated processes—and longstanding patterns shifted. People returned to something wise within them and the practitioners I worked with wanted to use this in their own work. They wanted to create the kind of change for others that they had experienced. 

Common Awakening was birthed to empower you to live from your Fullness and reclaim your innate subtle sensing capacity. Our passion is to teach you to follow energy so that you can apply your unique subtle sensing skills in your work to become an agent of change in the world.  We are down to earth and accessible. We meet you where you are at. Common Awakening is a vibrant community for you to participate in to support you during your journey to return to your power. To come home to what you already have within you.  We invite you to join us!