When I was two, I could tie my shoes, hold full conversations, and speak in paragraphs. I was also drawing like most five-year-olds. By three, I was reading. Writing soon followed.

As long as I can remember, I could see.
Energy, emotion, entities, and essence.

My brilliance wasn’t learned; it was lived.
But in a world that fears what it can’t understand, it was also feared.

I learned to survive by dimming my own light.
And I dimmed in all kinds of ways.

The more abuse I endured, the more ways I learned to hide and numb—through sugar, alcohol, toxic partnerships, extra weight, neglect, and self-criticism.

Yet, some part of me never forgot.
My inner child. My inner brilliance.
The heart-light within.

Addiction became my armor, but sobriety became my awakening.

Over thirteen years ago, that awakening began.
AA and therapy opened the door, but something still felt like it was missing. I saw people decades into recovery still anchored to the same pain.

I wanted more than maintenance.
I wanted total restoration.

So I began tracing the threads—the addiction, the autoimmune issues, the repeating patterns. They all led back to the same source, the same root, and ultimately, the same method of healing.

Then, in 2023, the Lahaina fires changed everything.

Though my home survived, I was still forced to leave it, and my life as I knew it did not.
Everything external was stripped away—my work, my safety, my sense of place—until all that remained was the truth:

You cannot burn what is eternal.

Not only did my process heal me…
It made me unstoppable.

That’s when I finally understood:

My purpose was not just to survive the fire.
It was to rise above it.
It was to reveal the brilliance that cannot be burned.
Then remind others how to do the same.

That remembrance became my method.

It walked me through the fires of addiction.
It carried me through the fires of Lahaina.
It rebuilt me from the ashes into alignment.

Now I teach what I embody.

Not forced resilience, but restoration through remembrance.

Because your brilliance was never lost.
It’s simply waiting to be remembered and reclaimed.

I’m simply a guide to help you find the way home.

—Juniper