about brenda

After moonlighting as an event coordinator, a marketing manager, a content strategist, a digital course designer for corporate trainings, a band director-slash-librarian-slash-tech support at a school for gifted youngsters, and a fiction editor (and more!) for nearly a decade, she learned that things got a lot easier—and more sustainable—for her when she stopped pretending she wasn’t so strange and began to actually meet herself where she started.

As a result, she can’t help but think that the time and space necessary to truly know thyself should be recognized as a basic human right. Until that day comes, she’s dedicated herself to making it easier for all of us to take the tarot—and other intuitive practices—to heart.

Her tangible, heart-centered approach to the tarot was born out of her own desire to stop beating herself up over other people’s critical interpretations of the cards and instead center (and hopefully, remember) the supportive wisdom that surfaced from within amid the challenges of ADHD and modern life. 

She self-identifies as a secular transcendentalist, a member of the LGBTQ community, and a multimedia artist and finds her working-class Roman Catholic upbringing (and the Chicago accent) hard to shake.

Ultimately, whether through tarot, herbalism, personal mentorship, or her art, she seeks to support others in developing their own intuitive awareness, illuminate what truth she can, and create a little more space for the magic and medicine that is abundantly available for us all.