Hi! I’m Ali

I’m a wild and poetic redhead, wife, TFMR mama and transplant recipient navigating life after death. I love a good cup of coffee and i’m always up for an adventure

I’m so glad you’re here

the only way i know to live in the face of such grief is embodied, using ritual to alchemize the present and reimagine the future

 

How this whole thing started

Everything I hold dear has come from loss. It’s the stark and raw truth. Born with a rare, genetic disease, I’ve always been immersed in the medical world, deeply aware of my own mortality. Mere months after the devastating loss of my first child as a result of maternal health complications, and days after a life saving liver transplant, I found myself lying in an ICU bed seeking a narrative beyond the one that had been thrust upon me. I didn’t choose this work as much as it chose me. I’m dedicated to giving voice to the stories woven into our very beings, navigating the grief that exists in our cells. I provide holistic support and ritual to those looking for another way. This journey began from the depths of my own grief, and a desire to create a life I could be proud of, navigating pain with poetry and using myth and metaphor to tell the story of my body.

 

A little about me

  • I was diagnosed with Glycogen Storage Disease at 4 months old, a rare condition where my body was missing the enzyme needed to turn glycogen into glucose. I was fed primarily through a g-tube until my liver transplant when I was 23, which means my 24th birthday was the first one where I had cake

  • My husband and I are college sweethearts. We don’t know when we fell in love, it just sort of happened. We still live in our college town with our rescue pitbull, I.V

  • Beauty is the remedy. Aesthetics and sensual experiences have the power to rekindle our connection to life and offer a contrast to moments of emotional shut down. I love creating aesthetic experiences and rituals that engage all of the senses

  • While I’ve always been interested in body work, I had no idea the places it would take me. What began as my own healing practice evolved into a desire to empower you in telling your embodied stories surrounding grief