Olá queridos,

I’m Melanie, a recovering over achiever and people pleaser who led a life heavily programmed to be “good” for others and seldom felt good enough for herself.

I graduated with a doctorate in physical therapy because I thought a fancy degree would mean that I would finally be “worthy” enough. But I also became a PT because I was deeply fascinated by the human body and its capacity for self healing… I just didn’t have the same perspective on that then, as I do now.

I’ve been a lover and a seeker of mysticism since my mom read me my first horoscope from the Portuguese Times newspaper when I was 8 years old, and since I saw my great-auntie read tarot cards for my mom on a family trip to Portugal.

I started learning astrology as a tween thanks to astrodienst.com (Iykyk) then a few years later I was gifted a tarot deck of my own. I had many family members come to me to read their fortunes (still do) But I didn’t offer tarot readings publicly, I didn’t feel comfortable being a spiritual seeker. I wanted material success and accomplishments above all things to prove myself of my worthiness.

Once I finally finished academia and had to get a big girl job, I went through a massive existential crisis. I was burnt out as hell and I wasn’t in any way having fun or honoring a more sensitive and intuitive side of myself. I came out to the world as a psychic and gave readings online. The world opened up to me- people were pouring in. It was my sign that this was the direction to go.

I went through a phase of thinking that I was going to throw it all to the wind and become a full time fortune teller, but that’s not what life wanted for me. Also, I had a feeling that even though the readings were healing for others, they were twice as healing for me.

It’s been over 4 years since then- I see my way now. Tarot looks a little different (check out my tarot page to see for yourself), and my role is now evolving as a guide and a mirror for somatic healing. Where the body and the intuitive mind meet. Where I was meant to be all along

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This work is in devotion to the union of the Doctor and the Mystic.

Merging the mundane & tangible + the infinite & unseen;

using the nervous system & the body as the bridge.