About Sarah

Nature-Based Perception Guide

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Hi, I’m Sarah (she/her), and I’m so happy you’re here!

I help spiritually curious people notice the hidden patterns connecting Nature, the Tree of Life, and their own lives so that transformation becomes a path toward Belonging, purpose, and greater Unity.

My Approach

Nature is our first teacher.

The Tree of Life is our map.

Wisdom Grove is where we remember together.

My job isn’t to show you anything new. It’s to help you remember and reconnect with the wisdom you were born knowing.

How I Got Here

My parents tell a story about how when I was first born, my eyes were wide and intense, like I was taking in the whole world.

I don't remember this, of course, but I suspect they were right.

From my earliest memories, I had an overwhelming feeling that we, as humans, "missed a memo." There was more to life - more to existence itself - than we were being taught to notice.

That feeling drove everything:

→ As a child sitting inside a bush in the yard and feeling merged with something More

→ Watching bees in clover and wondering what they knew that I didn't.

→ As I grew older, I explored many spiritual traditions and practices, always following that same quiet feeling that there had to be a deeper connection beneath them all.

Something was missing.


I could feel it.


And I couldn't name it..

Enter Kabbalah!

When I encountered Kabbalah, something finally clicked.


Not because it gave me new answers.


Because it connected answers I'd been collecting my whole life.


For the first time, I could see how seemingly separate traditions, symbols, and experiences belonged to a much larger living pattern.


When paths converge, there is truth.


That realization changed everything.


I no longer saw the Tree of Life as a rigid spiritual ladder.


I began experiencing it as a living map that helps us navigate the patterns Nature has been quietly showing us all along.

Today

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After years of study, countless hours in Nature, and more wrong turns than I can count, I help fellow travelers...

✨ Feel part of something larger

✨ Discover how to trust life again

✨ Stop overthinking meaning

✨ Experience spirituality as real, not conceptual

✨ Feel grounded in existence

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Credentials

  • Independent scholar in comparative mysticism - Mapping 40+ spiritual traditions to the Kabbalah Tree of Life

  • Coiner of the term "inclusion varnishing" - naming the phenomenon of performative diversity without structural change

  • Creator of the Tree of Life card reading spread 

  • Developer of Tree of Life Astrology methodology

  • Kabbalist with years of intensive study in Jewish mysticism

  • My background also includes certification in shamanic practice, Reiki, intuitive card reading, and years of immersive Nature study throughout New England, Colorado, and DuPage County, IL.

Beyond The Grove

When I'm not actively helping other seekers or deepening my own practice, I love:

🌲 Exploring the 500+ miles of trails in DuPage County

🍵 Thinking deep thoughts over a cup of tea

🍦 Searching for the best vegan ice cream

📸 Nature photography - capturing the small details and uniqueness of All Life

🐱 Hanging out with my cats & 80+ named plushies

Many of the Nature photographs you'll find throughout this site are my own. They're one more way I practice noticing.

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Walking Beside You

I’m still walking this path myself.


Every season teaches me something new.


My role isn't to stand at the finish line.


It's to walk beside you until you begin seeing what has always been there.


I've spent a lifetime learning how to notice the patterns that quietly connect Nature, spirituality, and everyday life.


If that way of seeing resonates with something in you...


I'd be honored to walk with you.

My Mission

Helping people perceive the hidden relationships that already exist between themselves, Nature, each other, and the Divine.

Whether we're walking together in the woods of DuPage County or connecting online, my work is to help fellow travelers reconnect with their inner wisdom and their place within the living world

Ready to Begin?