ABOUT

My Journey in a Nutshell

Born in Manhattan and raised in the suburbs of New Jersey, I grew up as a dedicated gymnast and straight-A student, an incredibly quiet girl labeled as 'shy' whose most consistent report card feedback was 'Amanda needs to speak up more in class.' My academic diligence granted me entry to the Honors Program at Boston College, and I auditioned for the Cheer squad and – in spite of stomping on a girl's head during tryouts doing a stunt – due to my tumbling skills, I made the team. I cheered for football and basketball and found myself performing in front of crowds numbering in the tens of thousands, and occasionally on tv for even more to see.

Academics took a backseat as I'd hit relative burnout in high school and was discovering what it meant to have a social life, and began questioning the path that had been laid out for me due to excelling in math and science: Biology Pre-Med. I came to my senses and switched to psychology, but by the time I graduated my soul steered me off the clinical path. Though I didn't fully recognize it at the time, my intuition was guiding me, and a deeper part of me always knew the traditional realm was not for me. 

My twenties – in hindsight – could best be seen as an amalgamation of Eat Pray Love and Failure to Launch, with a side quest bringing me to London to get a Master's degree in Social and Cultural Psychology at the London School of Economics.

It was in that library, in Spring of 2012, while I was sitting writing papers on the evolution of competition and cooperation through the lens of social psychology, consumer psychology, and financial decision making in context that I had a random 'thought' imprint on my mind: The System, The Shift, The Awakening. I didn't know what it meant, but deep down, I knew it meant something big, and that it was coming. 

Between study abroad in Paris (I also had a French minor and nearly a minor in Art History) and grad school in London, I also spent nearly two years in Asia, teaching English in Tokyo followed by eight months of travel through China, Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka, with a three week stop in Egypt – Cairo and the Sinai peninsula – on the way back to the matrix of the tri-state. I'd spent six months in India, diving head first into a month long yoga teacher training at an ashram, for fun, a ten day introduction to Buddhism and meditation retreat, a weekend Zen Buddhist retreat, a few days at Amma's ashram, and a couple months volunteering. 

I kept getting sucked back to the New York City matrix, and though I had a moderately decent but slow-building career in the realm of academic performance, I felt stifled and not where I was meant to be.

Insomnia kicked in hard core just before my 30th birthday, then the ticking time bomb went off six months later in the form of a cancer diagnosis. I received messages from the beyond that 'It was not my time to die. It was my job to heal the family pattern of dying from cancer.'

I spiraled deeper into the realms of healing mind body and soul, harnessing my background in research and my ongoing studies in the realm of positive psychology and mindset to succeed in Project Heal. Treatment involved 600 hours of a chemotherapy cocktail, but it worked extremely quickly and doctors were asking me how I was doing so well by the last round. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt it was because of all that I did to support my body on the side.

As I say now, however, the real healing began after treatment ended. 

Little did I know at the time how deep the journey would continue to spiral me, shedding old versions of myself through an ongoing cycle of death and rebirth. 

When 2020 hit, I was living in Miami, by the beach, and after deep loss right before the pandemic hit, I was in the process of another initiation when I realized the narrative wasn't matching reality. Immediately I thought of the download I had received in 2012: The Shift was Here. The Awakening was Happening. Which mean the system was also crumbling. 

I embraced the spiritual path full-on, diving deep into any podcasts and books I could get my hands on. I left my job early that summer and realized it was finally time to go full steam ahead. My body was finally healed, my energy was back (as was my hair). And so was my clarity and motivation.

I learned that my charts all pointed to the path of spirituality. Signs and synchronicities flooded into my field and I could not deny the path my soul was oh so clearly guiding me on. Magic, rainbows, and roses filled my reality, and I moved to Tulum to be surrounded by conscious tribe and high vibes.

Little did I know then how much distortion and false light existed in the realm of New Age spirituality. I was trusting and open to those who spoke the language, and that trust got fully taken advantage of. 

Which lead me to my deepest initiations and most challenging lessons of my spiritual journey yet: discernment and the full depth of the darkness, through which I've been gifted the opportunity to close the karmic loops, break the cycles, and reclaim my light, my gifts, and soul codes. 

Through soul travel and pilgrimages, I fully activated my gridworking contracts and ancient soul codes, opened past life loops which I then had the opportunity to close.

Each initiation has brought me deeper into myself, closer to the Heart of Truth. Activating the crystalline diamond within, and remember the brilliance of my wholeness that was always waiting to be witnessed.

My Education and Training

I have always been intellectually driven, thirsty to learn and experience all that the world has to offer, and life unfolded most synchronistically for me to embrace this path.

For a time, my background and experience seemed disparate and incongruous, but now looking back I see how I was perfectly positioned to become a professional dot-connector as the Author of Let There Be Light, and exquisitely guided to become who I am now: to step into the role of Grail Priestess, Wayshower, and Visionary of the New Earth as a Steward of the Christ Sophia stream.

While my visions were in a sense always guiding me, it's not something I ever truly foresaw – to see myself as a 'leader,' much less embracing the spiritual path, certainly not as a 'Priestess.' 

But what formally 'qualifies' me to step into this role? In truth, my educations, certifications, trainings, and studies are many, and ongoing. Below includes a list of my formal training and education, as well as intuitively guided journeys, various modes of healings I've received, and informal experiences that have informed my knowledge and perspective.

From all of this – I have learned immense amounts of knowledge, as well as the embodied wisdom that comes from walking the path with unwavering commitment and devotion, in some cases learning what not to do and what is not aligned.

I have learned trial by fire by walking through the flames of initiation, again and again, each time rebirthed into a higher version of self:

• BA in Psychology from Boston College (Honors Program, minor in French, study abroad in Paris, near minor in Art History, after switching from Biology/ Pre-Med. I won awards for academics, particularly the sciences, all throughout high school)
• MSc in Social and Cultural/ Economic Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (I kind of made up my own degree there!) where I received a Distinction (top honors) on my Dissertation
• 3 Yoga Teacher Training Certifications (600 hours total), after a childhood of gymnastics and sports and a college career as a cheerleader (co-ed stunts and tumbling and the whole 9 – yup I was a flyer!)
• 2 Full Coaching certifications – Health and Transformation Coaching through HCI and Positive Psychology and Wellbeing through the College of Executive Coaching (needed a Masters degree to be accepted into this training), the foundational transformation process which informs the structure of my own signature program Luminary
• Precision Nutrition training program 
• Gut Healing program (Mind Brain connection)
• Self Love Course
• Soul Wealth Coaching Program – I received very high level activations
• Soul Alignment Business Coaching Program (full year)
• Transformational Trauma Informed 'Purpose' Program
• Embodied Ascension Program
• Shadow Work Intensive Program
• Priestess of the Rose Program (1 year + 1 year Membership for a full two year devotion to the path within the container) 
• Quantum Touch Healing Training
• Theta Healing Training
• Akashic Records Reading Training (2 separate trainings)
• White Diamond Elohei Lemurian Priestess Arts Training
• Gridwork Training
• Solar Feminine Christ Training
• Myriad other Business focused trainings and programs
• Numerous retreats, including a Dr. Joe Weeklong
• Many Healers, from biomagnetism to bioresonance, Energetic surgery, healings, plant medicine, a ceremony with a private shaman, womb healing, water therapy, and more

Not to mention the countless books, self-study, and exploration and journeys to sacred sites around the world, where my intuition guided me – India, Tulum, Egypt, Glastonbury/ Avalon, South of France, and Sedona to name a few. 

 Life itself has been and continues to be my greatest training as I continue to walk the path of Remembrance home to my Heart of Truth.