ABOUT ROSE
A mirror,
a midwife,
a witness.
I didn't find this work. It found me — through grief, through fire, through the slow and stubborn insistence of the land that there was another way to live.
SHAMANIC PRACTICIONER
RTT THERAPIST
POET & WRITER
GUIDE & MENTOR
MOTHER
FARMER
THE BEGINNING
Cypress swamps and
childhood potions
I was raised in the cypress swamps and tidal marshes of South Florida, where my three sisters and I spent our days collecting palm fruits for potions, fostering lizards, and rescuing baby turtles washed ashore by storms. The world was alive — magnificently, obviously, and sometimes terrifyingly alive — and no one thought to tell us otherwise. Magic was not something we were taught. It was simply the air we breathed and the water we walked through.
I was the child who believed in everything — who talked to trees before she knew that was unusual, who dreamed in symbols before she knew that dreams were significant, who found herself inexplicably moved by things she couldn't name. I held on to that child for a long time. Then, for a while, I lost her before finding her again. That finding is what this work is built from.
THE PATH OF LEARNING
Schools, forests,
and the beginning of practice
I came to shamanism the way most people come to their truest things — sideways, and when I wasn't quite ready. I had been studying and practicing other paths of healing for years, when the forest began asking something more specific of me. I followed the ogham, the runes, the dreamwork. I studied the ancestral practices of Northern Europe — not as a romantic recovery project, but as a living lineage that had been waiting for someone in my bloodline to come home to it.
I hold an MFA in poetry and an MA in education — which means I have always understood that story is the oldest technology of transformation that humans have ever made. For over a decade, I worked closely with children, weaving story and nature into their learning. I founded Oak Rose Forest School, and then The Wizard School — two experiments in what happens when you trust children with real magic. The lessons I learned there live in everything I do now with adult humans.
"Story is the oldest technology of transformation that humans have ever made. And every one of us is living one, whether we know it or not."
"Do not question reaching out to Rose or taking one of her offerings — they are the most honest and life-changing things I have done. If you show up for this work, you will inevitably change."
Maria Gil — course participant & mentorship student
I trained and became licensed in Rapid Transformational Therapy through Marissa Peer's program — one of the most rigorous and evidence-based hypnotherapy certifications available. I became an advanced Crystal Dreaming practitioner. I studied dreamwork through the lens of Toko-Pa Turner's writing. I also studied and mentored individuals in Andean Cosmology and shamanism for many years. I worked with herbs and tree medicine, with ceremony and divination, with the runes and the ogham. I did not collect these tools as credentials. I collected them as a practitioner: because I needed them when they found me and because they worked.
THE FIRES
Losing everything.
Finding the match.
I am not going to perform a tidy summary of what I walked through. What I will say is this: I lost almost everything more than once. Dreams I nurtured for years. Relationships I gave my life to. The approval of people I loved. A version of myself I thought I had to be in order to survive and belong.
I climbed the ladder, built the business, raised the money, birthed a vision into reality — and let it go after realizing that it was not in alignment with my joy and soul. I have navigated spiritual emergence and the complexities of motherhood. I have sat in custody courtrooms and spoken truth that cost me so much to speak. I have had to reclaim my voice after years of invalidation, of being diminished for my growth and punished for standing in my truth. I have had to learn, more than once, that abandoning myself — trading authenticity for approval, silence for safety — was the real sacrifice.
"I didn't let these losses break me. I learned to find the single match in the dark tunnel. And in that listening, I was held and led by grace."
And still, I chose to walk forward. I found true love and real partnership. I found sacred sisterhood. I found my way to a life on land I had dreamed of for years — in the golden fields of Burgundy, France, where we are building something that is ours, rooted in reciprocity, shaped by devotion.
I share this not to make my story sound dramatic, but because I think it matters that the women I guide know I have genuinely walked through these portals — not theorized about them. I know what it is to grieve an identity. To hold heartache that feels like it will crush you under its weight. To be at a threshold with nothing to hold onto but your own breath. To feel the pull of something ancient when everything modern no longer makes sense. I have stood exactly where many of the men and women I work with are standing. And I made it to the other side. And that other side is more alive and more real than anything I had to let go of to reach it.
THE WORK NOW
What I offer.
Why it matters.
Today, my work is rooted in one conviction: that everyone carries a medicine that is specific to them — a way of being in the world, a gift, a story, a knowing — that no one else can bring. And that the work of transformation is not the acquisition of something new, but the return to something essential that was always there.
I am not a guru and I am not here to tell you what your medicine is or how to use it. I offer myself as a mirror, a midwife, and a sacred witness to guide you there. I use shamanic practice, RTT therapy, dreamwork, myth, writing, the ogham, and the runes — not as a menu of modalities, but as a living toolkit shaped to the specific individual and the specific threshold she is standing at.
I work with a small number of souls at a time. This is not a volume business. It is, as much as I can make it, a sacred practice — shaped by the same values I try to live by on this farm: reciprocity, truth, deep attention, and the conviction that the world is changed not by those who perform transformation, but by those who actually undergo it.
I am still walking this path. Still shedding, still listening, still becoming, still being humbled. The only difference is I've walked a few steps ahead, and I'm familiar enough with the terrain to hold a lantern for someone else.
With devotion, Rose
WHERE I LIVE & WORK
La Ferme
du Cerf Bleu
The Farm of the Blue Deer — Burgundy, France
I live with my husband and children in Burgundy, France, where we are building our dream: a permaculture farm devoted to medicinal plants, sacred groves, pollinator gardens, bee therapy houses, and old trees. We call it La Ferme du Cerf Bleu — the Farm of the Blue Deer.
The farm is not separate from my work. It is the ground my work grows from. Every session I guide, every course I teach, every word I write is shaped by daily contact with the land — with the seasons, the plants, the weather, the animals, the deep time of the trees. This is what I mean when I say my practice is earthed. It is literally so.
In time, La Ferme du Cerf Bleu will offer retreats for writing, healing, and deep listening — a place to come and be held by land that has been tended with love. If you feel called to visit, join the email list and you will be the first to know when retreats open.
LOCATION
Burgundy, France
THE LAND
Medicinal gardens, sacred groves, bee therapy, permaculture
COMING SOON
Writing, healing, and deep listening retreats
THE NAME
The Farm of the Blue Deer — a mythic animal of threshold and transformation
WHAT I BELIEVE
I am not a neutral practitioner. I hold specific views about what healing is, what it requires, and what it is for — and I think you deserve to know them before you decide whether to work with me.
The convictions
that shape
this work
I
Authenticity is not a luxury
Abandoning yourself — trading your truth for approval, your voice for safety, your nature for belonging — is the real wound. Everything I do is in service of helping you stop making that trade.
II
The natural world is a teacher
Trees, land, animals, seasons, and the invisible forces that move through all of them are not backdrop. They are participants. A spirituality that is disconnected from the living earth is always going to be missing something essential.
III
Story is medicine
Every human life has mythic structure — a wound, a call, an ordeal, a return. When we learn to see our lives that way, we stop being victims of our stories and become their protagonists. That shift changes everything.
IV
Grief is a portal
We live in a culture that treats grief as a malfunction to be fixed or avoided. I believe it is one of the most powerful transformative forces available to us. Properly held, grief is not an ending — it is an initiation.
V
Your medicine is needed
I do not believe the world needs more healers who all offer the same thing. I believe it needs the specific, irreplaceable medicine that only you carry — the one that grew out of your particular wounds, gifts, and journey.
VI
Reciprocity over extraction
The way I farm is the way I practice: in relationship, in listening, giving back as much as I take. The land and the more-than-human world are not resources to be used. They are relatives to be in relationship with.
A WORD FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS WALKED THIS PATH
Working with Rose has been the most honest, the most challenging, and the most life-giving thing I have done. She does not let you stay small, and she does not pretend to have answers she doesn't have. What she has is presence, a quality of attention that makes you feel genuinely seen, and the skill to hold you through a threshold you didn't know you were standing at. I came in lost. I came out with something I can't quite name, but that I know I will carry for the rest of my life.
S. K.
Mentorship student — spiritual emergence and creative reclamation