About Kristin

Words She

Lives By…

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Nothing is impossible; the impossible just takes a little longer.”
— attributed to Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, oceanographer, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”

―L.R. Knost, Award-winning author, feminist, and social justice activist.

“John Hay, in The Immortal Wilderness, has written: 'There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.' Sometimes I hear it talking. The light of the sunflower was one language, but there are others more audible. Once, in the redwood forest, I heard a beat, something like a drum or a heart coming from the ground and trees and wind. That underground current stirred a kind of knowing inside me, a kinship and longing, a dream barely remembered that disappeared back to the body....

Tonight, I walk. I am watching the sky. I think of the people who came before me and how they knew the placement of the stars in the sky, watching the moving sun long and hard enough to witness how a certain angle of light touched a stone only once a year. Without written records, they knew the gods of every night, the small, fine details of the world around them and the immensity above them.

Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating....It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

― Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

As a child, I grew up daydreaming in the woods—scraping tree sap onto smooth rocks and pressing wildflowers into their surfaces to beautify the forts I built. I loved to color and would often draw the mystical creatures that captured my imagination. After school, I’d listen to my records, play with my ginger tabby cat, and read stories about the magical lives of other children in books like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden, and Little House on the Prairie.This was a stark contrast to other aspects of my childhood.

I began working at a very young age and would sometimes take my earnings, walk to a nearby town, and board a train to Boston—unbeknownst to my hardworking single mother. My adventurous spirit led me to begin exploring the city alone at eleven years old, gradually widening my circumference as I learned to navigate it. In time, my adventures would take me to record stores and all-ages music venues, with my personal style reflecting my tastes in Punk, Alternative, Goth, and Industrial music, while still cherishing artists like Michael Jackson and Prince.

I grew up to pursue photography at MassArt in Boston, spending time working in galleries before exploring the film and music industries. It was in music that I discovered I had a gift for recognizing talent and nurturing an artist’s gifts. My career began as an Artist Manager, evolved into Music Festival Director, and ultimately culminated in my role as VP of Community for a music discovery startup.

In 2014, my husband, son, and I had the opportunity to move to London. It was there that I decided to unearth my natural gifts, enrolling at the College of Psychic Studies, where I earned a certification in Angelic and Ascended Masters Communication, and at the School of Intuition and Healing, where I studied Psychic Development and Spiritual Counseling. My interests expanded to include crystal healing, eventually studying to the level of Crystal Master, as well as Shamanism and Consciousness.

It was in the first class I took at the College that I discovered the mystical creatures of my childhood were, in fact, real. I would come to understand that angels had intervened during a near-death experience I had as a teenager. And, over time, I came to know that everything is real in some time, space, dimension, or reality—the kind of true knowing that can only come through firsthand experience.

Once I stepped onto this spiritual path, talents were quickly unearthed. Just months after beginning my development journey, I was invited to begin working professionally. I was eventually nominated by the College to become a Probationer—an honor bestowed upon a select few students, inviting the public to test the abilities of the Intuitive—and later became a Teacher, the first student to be invited to teach before completing the probationary period.

I think back on the nearly five years I spent in London as my “Spiritual Bootcamp.” I encountered haunted places and sacred spaces, met people under the influence of demonic possession, black magic, and curses, and helped bring healing to victims of satanic cults and other profound traumas. Eventually, I came to understand that the darkness often dismissed as “conspiracy” could also be very real.

When we returned to the United States, I opened a practice in Salem, Massachusetts, where word of mouth spread quickly, despite my remaining largely anonymous to the tourists and local community of Witch City.

In Salem, I would meet and briefly study with Damien Echols, the artist, author, magician, and metaphysical teacher who was falsely accused of a horrific crime as a young man and ultimately sentenced to Death Row. From solitary confinement, he would eventually manifest a soulmate, a soul tribe of famous artistic outliers, and, in time, his freedom. It was Damien who introduced me to Hermetic Philosophy and taught me powerful tools for manifestation.

In 2019, I had a premonition of the impending pandemic and how society would be affected. This began a period of time in which I referred to myself as a “First Responder,” supporting clients through disease, despair, death, and suicidal ideation. It was also a time in which I came to believe that we live in disparate dimensions based on our individual frequencies. Through my psychic and energetic disciplines, I could perceive distortions and illusions that others could not. Predicting the future when people were unable to face it was no longer helpful.

As a result, I deepened my metaphysical and shamanic studies with the intention of positively impacting consciousness and cultivating right relationship with all living, organic lifeforms. I began offering my spiritual teachings on Patreon so that clients could access and self-serve the content if they couldn’t attend live. I witnessed tremendous growth in those who embarked upon their own spiritual journeys.

In 2023, I traveled to Mount Shasta, where I experienced heightened states of consciousness and states of profound bliss. During my time at what I understand to be the Root Chakra of the Earth, I met colleagues whose spiritual paths deeply resonated with my own. Since then, I have returned once or twice a year, and more recently, have begun curating experiences there for my clients.

In recent years, I have begun to study astrology and the cosmos. As I have developed a deeper awareness of and connection to Nature, the Earth, and the Cosmos, I have begun to unlock more fully my own truest nature.

Currently, I am exploring what Jung referred to as hieros gamos—the reconciliation of opposites within the psyche; what astrology calls the 180-degree angle, the opposition between planetary placements in a birth chart that can reveal powerful counterforces to be integrated and balanced in order to access one’s highest potential; and what the ancient Greeks referred to as gnosis—the cultivation of direct, experiential spiritual knowledge of the divine.

In November 2024, I closed my office in Salem, choosing instead to work within an energetic environment that was more supportive of my sensory sensitivity. I continue to work with clients virtually, both nationally and internationally, and now see people in person in a four-season yurt in my backyard in Swampscott.

My lot abuts a small nature preserve, and from time to time, sessions are accompanied by sightings of coyotes, foxes, fisher cats, red-tailed hawks, barred owls, voles, chipmunks, squirrels, and countless songbirds. Visitors are warmed by a wood stove in the winter and cooled by air conditioning in the summer. Visits to my home sometimes include greetings from my husband, Chris; my son, Brevan; our Golden Retriever, Rose; or our indoor cats, Pudding and Yuki.

It is my intention to be a source of unconditional love and compassion, offering my gifts and insights for consideration as you navigate the trails and tribulations of your life. I share my authentic self with the hope of inspiring others to embrace and share theirs.