Meet Paula...

My Timeline to Today

Like many empaths, I walked the world with a keen somatic sensitivity to other people's feelings. I was drawn to spirituality and a self-led path about the nature of suffering from a young age. My childhood was a series of initiations, like many who are here to help at this time. Writing, dance, or movement were pathways to my connection to the larger field of intelligence. At 14, the disconnection from body, earth, and mother sent me into the underworld of disordered eating, dissociation, and inner separation. Since that time, this path home has been a spiral one, with many starts and stops. Only now am I able to see the beautiful mosaic of the soul's path.

1988, The Circumference

While in college, I spent several summers working in the Mount Shasta area, where I felt deeply held, yet was very unaware of my purpose or connection to the location. This is a time of initiation and soul growth through relational pain. My writing from that time period focused on a deeper longing for spiritual connection and the seeking of wisdom and truth within the structures of our modern world.

1994, An Early Homecoming

The people we meet along the way are all part of the soul's unfolding. I moved to Hawaii unexpectedly at the age of 23, feeling both lost and found when I arrived. Eventually, entering into the field of social work, where psychology, community organizing, and social advocacy merged. The foundations for gathering in circles with women were planted through monthly circles, as was a deeper connection to the Great Mother and the unseen world. Another threshold opens. I receive my first medicine song from an indigenous elder.

2001, The Return to the Body

The path of feminine wisdom and my curiosity about the struggle of physical embodiment led me to study and eventually teach clients about the loss of the feminine archetype as a missing piece in the treatment of eating disorders. We opened a treatment center and began to support women using the pathway of myth and metaphor.

2004, She Whispers Again

While on the Big Island, I hear another inner call. This message was loud. "Take people deeper into the body," she says. The journey into movement, breath, and dance took me from one coast to the next.

2006, The Masculine Answers

Taking a position at Duke University, I taught and mentored providers about the split between the psyche and soma, and experienced an embodied understanding of systems and models of leadership.

2013, The Intersection Begins

Another nudge. I step through the doorway into Somatic Experiencing®, and everything begins to make sense. The frequencies of dorsal, ventral, and sympathetic make sense to me. The systems I have studied begin to break down. The body is the portal. The ancient wisdom is presented through the lens of the nervous system. Science is now leading me back home to the mother frequency, in and through the body. By 2012, it was clear that the box was again too small; the inner voice nudged me to carve a new path.

2014, The Teacher As Student

I left Duke and began to teach practitioners about the nervous system and embodiment. The Embodied Recovery Institute is birthed. Soon, my curiosity brings me into the world of touch, energy, and the foundations of co-regulation.

2017, The World of Psychoacoustics

How can sound offer us an opening to the relational pathways? Can frequency heal our separation from the ancient pulse of the first mother? Is sound a pathway for cultivating mind-body-heart coherence? My early entrance into psychoacoustics led me to the Safe and Sound Program, a Polyvagal-based acoustic program that set the stage for what was about to occur. I began to research and observe how sound affects the attachment system, and how foundational safety is created in the body using sound as a portal into memory reprocessing.

2019-2020, The Big Opening

An initiation into the feminine path of healing arrives again. This time it is through grief. The heart opens, and with it, another call from the Great Mother. The inner eye awakens, prompting me to reach out to indigenous wisdom, entering a descent into the body and lunar shadow. The next phase was filled with lucid dreams, visions, and astral travel. The physiology begins to change. The inner call arrives stating, "a collective awakening is occurring; it is time to begin."

The SE-SSP manual is published, and writing becomes a pathway for direct communion. I start teaching wellness providers to support embodied awakening using heart coherence and resonance and sound healing.

2020 to 2024, The Wisdom Teachings: Earth, Sound, and Light

The first years brought profound energy release and nightly unraveling of old mental patterns. I anchored myself in apprenticeships in animism, sound, energy, story, music, movement, and eventually began to understand the soul records. Songs as messengers. Music as a pathway. Transformative Harmonics® offers training in psychoacoustics and community healing circles.

2025 to 2026, Embodiment and Integration

After two more years on the spiral path, the ancestral voices began to move through my body and voice. Songs and tones from the earth and grandmothers. The drum on the altar is finally picked up. Neuroscience, psychoacoustics, archetypes, and somatics begin to share a table with the beat of the drum, the medicine songs, and the remembrance of the ancient frequencies.

Today, The Wisdom School

Transformative Harmonics® is a living collective and school for those who wish to step into a new octave of living and relating through embodied remembrance. The curriculum includes the development of a deeper understanding of the language of relational frequency, breaking free of patterns of fear, and cultivating the full expression of your intuitive gifts as you deepen your connection to the body and the living field of intelligence. For providers, we also offer a doorway onto the path of the modern medicine woman or person, bridging the gap in our understanding of sound, voice, and vibrational healing.