Start living the life you deeply desire, instead of continuing to endure through the life you have.
Hi, I’m A.P.
I’m a certified spiritual life coach, artist, priestess, and your guide through the mess of metamorphosis.
I help people like you return home to themselves, reconnect to their wild instinct, and reignite joy in their lives.
We do this by engaging three main tools: action, connection, and embodiment. These are the elements that make up my unique coaching approach called ACE, which helps ignite transformation in all four areas of life: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical.
This work isn’t about forcing or pushing through, but rather slowing down enough to soften into the wisdom of our bodies and letting intuition guide the experience.
Here’s the reality...
You did all the things you were supposed to do. You worked hard, climbed the ladder to success, and sacrificed a lot to be where you are.
And yet something still just doesn’t feel right.
The script you were sold seems to no longer fit who you’re becoming.
Right now, you’re likely at a point in your story where you don’t feel like the unstoppable, vibrant soul you once were.
Maybe you had to face one too many losses, or that big heart of yours got crushed by careless hands again.
Maybe the force of nature that once lead the way feels more like a mirage than real in the desert that has made a home in your heart.
Maybe inspiration has dried up and your dreams are nowhere to be found, left forgotten and abandoned in the dunes of time.
Just like your freedom.
Just like your wings.
Maybe it’s all of the above combined. What lead you here exactly doesn’t matter, really. What is important is that you have arrived and this means that you are ready to remember.
You are ready to remember that you are never truly stuck.
You are ready to remember that you are a powerful being capable of creating a life full of ease, passion, and joy.
You are ready to remember that receiving isn’t a weakness, that healing doesn’t have to feel like constant work, that rest doesn’t need to be earned, that your needs are sacred and deserve honouring, that pleasure is your birthright, and so is living a purposeful life you love.
You are ready to remember your true value and worth.
And most importantly- you’re ready to claim it & start rewriting the story of your life the way you want it to be.
Nod your head if any of the situations below sounds like you
It’s as if a lacklustre darkness has replaced the colors you once painted life with, and the well of creativity that once overflowed with inspiration, has run dry. The activities you once cherished doing now lay forgotten- the piano unplayed, the canvas unpainted, the adventure trip left unbooked. You can't seem to find pleasure or joy in much of anything lately.
I can’t seem to find excitement in my life. I feel bored, stagnant, and uninspired.
What used to be simple tasks, like keeping up with the mail or donating that bag of clothes in the back of the closet. seem to be mounting and you can’t seem to take action steps towards your goals, no matter how small they may seem.
I feel stuck in a rut, unable to find a way to move forward in my relationship, career, or personal growth.
You struggle to share your emotions and avoid expressing your authentic self, fearing judgment from others or the potential for conflict that comes if you were to assert a boundary. Instead of speaking up about your feelings and/or needs, you stay silent to keep the peace, but often feel resentment build up inside.
I say yes a lot when what I really want to say is no.
Idle time feels like wasted time. On weekends you can’t relax, and even on vacations you seem to ruminate on work, responsibilities, or even the next trip. Every time you slow down an alarm goes off that feels like restlessness, incessant thoughts, and anxiety.
I don’t feel safe relaxing. Something tells me it’s not ok to let go of control.
When you look in the mirror, you find something to scrutinise or tear apart about your body and it’s difficult for you to accept, much less celebrate, your physical form. Once upon a time, you felt confident and desirable. But you haven’t felt that way in a while, leaving you feeling insecure, unworthy, and unloveable.
I don’t feel confident or connected to my body, and my menstrual cycle feels like nothing but a nuisance.
You had to figure it all out on your own and be strong for most of your life, so softening to receive love and support from another feels strange and unsafe in your body. This shows up in your life in different ways, like having trouble accepting a compliment, or being unable to be fully present in order to receive pleasure from a lover. Underneath it all, there’s a sense of unworthiness.
I struggle receiving love and support from others.
You’re not alone.
In today’s modern society, we’re raised to live from the mind and conditioned early on, in a myriad of ways, to achieve someone else’s definition of success instead of following our heart and drafting our own definition. We’re taught to search for love and validation outside ourselves and numb instead of embrace our feelings.
Especially if we are gifted and/or highly sensitive, we begin to self-abandon in order to fit in, making ourselves smaller by the day, forgetting the power of our wild, instinctual nature, and contorting ourselves in shapes that don’t fit in order to find some sense of belonging.
Ironically, in doing so, we drift further away from our souls, our dreams, our passions, and then find ourselves feeling depressed, dissociated, anxious, fragmented, and/or powerless in order to enact change. When these patterns persist, it turns into a vicious cycle of insecurity and unworthiness.
I get why you feel the way you feel…
One fateful morning about twelve years ago, I woke up in total darkness & wished for death. That’s when I realized how starved I had allowed my soul to grow.
I had spent the majority of my adult life searching for success, validation, and fulfilment outside of myself: I had a college degree, a law degree, a steady boyfriend, and I was on my way to becoming an attorney. Externally everything looked fine, but inside I had been dying for years. I had abandoned my artistic side & forced myself to fit in spaces that didn’t nourish me, all the while thinking eventually it would all work itself out and I’d be happy.
But hunger for a heart-lead life doesn’t go away. It keeps gnawing at you desperately. knew I had to rewrite the story of my life if I was to keep on living it, and so I did. I quit the career path that stretched beyond me with promises of wealth & success, ended my relationship, and started working jobs in areas I had interest in: a museum (arts), a spa (health), and a farmer’s market (nature & passion-led work).
Everyone thought I was insane, but it was the most sane I had felt in a long time. Over the next few years I began to allow who I truly was to exist. To breathe. To lead. I couldn’t afford retreats or therapy, so I signed up for whatever donation-based courses appealed to me on dailyom, checked out self-help & spiritual books from the local library, and started seeing a tarot reader occasionally. Soon enough I was buying my first tarot deck, doing moon rituals, and reading tarot for myself.
I began to understand that I had all the answers within and to live from that space. Then, in my late 20s, in what seems like cruel twist of fate, my closest friend died suddenly from an aneurism, I was shattered by grief and started writing A Dirty Word Called Grief, without any idea of when, how, or if I’d ever get it published. A year or so later, I accepted an admin role at a nonprofit whose mission was to heal trauma and began working with a Somatic Experiencing therapist. That was the start of me learning about, uncovering, and healing trauma within myself and my relationships.
The somatic-body based approach was exactly what was missing in my healing. It helped me immensely in coming back into my body, processing and releasing stuck emotions, and accepting the fact that I was sensitive, have always been sensitive, and that my sensitivity was my super power. To further develop my craft, I completed the Beginning year of Peter Levine’s professional development program, Somatic Experiencing, and about a year later, enrolled in a 9 month apprenticeship to become a Priestess.
Most recently in May of 2023, I took the biggest leap of my life yet: I moved back to my motherland of Brazil and got certified as a spiritual life and soul purpose coach. And the rest, as they say, is history.
On my journey of healing, I’ve learned how to:
trust myself to have the answers and follow my own inner knowing and intuition.
befriend and come home to my body, cultivating safety from within.
reclaim all parts of me I abandoned in order to fit in and live from a place of inner authority.
speak my truth and needs and share my voice with the world.
regulate my nervous system in times of stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and depression.
make peace with past experiences & traumas so they no longer dictate my behaviour.
heal and embody my feminine nature and flow through life in trust instead of constantly pushing and forcing my way to achieve.
During my time coaching, I’ve helped clients:
claim their sovereignty and break the cycle of self-abandoning and people pleasing.
process and release stuck emotions from the body.
release limiting beliefs and embody self-love.
connect to their own wisdom and intuition and make decisions aligned with their values and needs.
redefine what spirituality means to them and create a spiritual practice that feels right.
create meaning and take action towards living the life of their dreams.
FAQs
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It’s all about the chemistry we feel when we hop on a call. If you feel safe, seen, and heard by me, we’re a good fit. This doesn’t mean that you won’t feel scared, nervous, or anxious when we first interact. Those feelings are normal. But do you also feel excited, hopeful, and relieved?
Think of it as us going on a date: you won’t know if I’m right for you until we connect face-to-face.
The worst thing that can happen is that we’re not a match. And that’s ok.
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It depends on what topics and areas of life you’re working on, and what kind of package or services you desire.
Typically I work with my clients online 2-4 times a month. Each call is 60-minutes long.
All calls are scheduled ahead of time, paid in advance, and non-refundable.
Clients may reschedule, so far as it is done at leas 48 hours in advance. Email support in between sessions is available as needed.
We’ll first work on building rapport and developing your somatic intelligence by dropping out of your head and into your body. We’ll also work on areas, topics, and problems in your life to help you gain a different perspective, take conscious action, and go after what you desire. If you’re struggling with stress, I’ll teach you tools, practices, and skills to help you regulate your nervous system during overwhelm so that you feel better.
At the end of each session, I’ll assign you what I call Soul Work: a simple yet effective practice tailored to you, for you to do during our time apart. It can range from journaling on a specific prompt to tracking your dreams.
This is a slow and intentional process, highly tailored to where you are in your journey, as well as your needs. Results show up after dedicating time to the practice and will depend on your own commitmen to your transformation.
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feminine healing and rewilding, specifically through the ancient priestess practice of the womb medicine wheel
grief
emotional & religious trauma
somatic embodiment
navigating life as a highly sensitive and/or neurodivergent person
emotional awareness & intelligence
conscious and subconscious mind rewiring
tarot as a tool to connect you to your intuition
dream work
Jungian psychology, specifically archetypes and shadow work
discovering your dharma (soul purpose)
personal transformation & specifically my trademarked work on the 4 stages of metamorphosis
connecting with plants and the elements for healing and wisdom
owning your voice as a creative and beating impostor syndrome
ritualizing your life and finding magic in the mundane
reframing spirituality and connecting to your spiritual nature and gifts
inner child healing
pleasure activism
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Aside from the special package prices listed below I share my rates with those who book a consultation call with me and are serious about doing the work.
This is a form of personal investment and it’s important to me that clients feel safe investing into their personal growth.
That being said, I am open to discussing flexible payment plans based on need.
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I am a Certified Dharma Coach through the Dharma Coaching Institute.
I have also completed a 9 month Priestess apprentice through Whole Women Mystery School, as well as the Beginning year of the Somatic Experiencing professional training program.
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Like many coaches and therapists, I don’t use just one modality.
In a coaching session, you’ll experience a mixture of different modalities of therapy and spiritual practices that I’ve studied.
I use a Somatic Experiencing techniques, Internal Family System, Inner Child Work, Jungian Analysis (in particular as it relates to the unconscious, archetypal, and shadow work), breathwork, and mindfulness.
I may also supplement these with more spirituality-based approaches, such as tarot, oracle cards, the chakra system, the womb medicine wheel, the doshas, dreamwork, elemental magic, and astrology.
Coaching Packages
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Catalyst to Change
If you’re in a time of transition and are ready to take aligned action, implement helpful structures to support your continued growth, and take responsibility for creating your best life yet, this is for you.
Discover which stage of metamorphosis you’re in and which practices and medicine to implement in your life in order to support your transformation.
Includes:
(1) 30 minute connection call
(2) 60 minute coaching calls
(1) 28-Day Journey to Change Journaling Guidebook
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Wild Woman Resurrection
Embody your feminine nature, rebirth your creative life force energy, reconnect to your wild instinct, and reignite pleasure and joy by coaching through the ancient priestess practice of the womb medicine wheel.
Divided into 4 quadrants, each connected to a phase of the menstrual cycle and an area of life (spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental), the womb medicine wheel will guide you through the wisdom and medicine of each phase’s corresponding…
feminine archetype;
season & element;
aspect of self;
animal guardian;
tarot anchor card;
healing practices to help you connect to, heal, and reclaim your feminine nature.
Choose from two options:
OPTION 1: 4 coaching sessions + 1 tarot reading
This approach starts with a tarot reading to guide us through the main themes and energies coming up in your life. Then, we meet weekly for 4 (60 minutes) coaching sessions during a 28 day moon cycle as we journey through the womb medicine wheel in alignment with your menstrual cycle.
if you no longer bleed, you can still be coached through the womb medicine wheel by following the moon phases in each quadrant.
OPTION 2: 1 tarot reading + 12 coaching sessions (split into either 3 or 6 months)
This approach dives deeper into the feminine mystique, following the wisdom of the womb medicine wheel in addition to offering a tarot reading to guide our work together.
* sliding scale available, please contact me for pricing.
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1:1 Coaching Session and/or Tarot Reading
Individual coaching sessions and tarot readings are available without the need to purchase a package.
Please schedule a complimentary connection call below to discuss your specific goals and needs.
*Sliding payment scale is available for those in need.
Coaching + tarot can also be combined in one single session if desired. Each session is tailored to address and serve your specific needs.
A little more about A.P.
I was born in Argentina, raised in Brazil, and moved to the U.S. a couple of months before my 12th birthday. Since then, I’ve lived in France, Mexico, and Portugal. In January 2024, I returned to Brazil and am happy to call the culturally-rich and spiritual land of Bahia home. I’m passionate about learning, traveling, helping people navigate transformation, expressing myself through art, connecting with nature, and practicing pleasure and joy daily. When I’m not coaching, creating art, or hosting workshops, you will find me practicing yoga, walking at the beach, singing a tune to the beat of my own drum, or simply swaying peacefully in a hammock and softening into rest.
