hi, I'm Laurie - Your Feral Mystic
Spirituality without domestication: a feral way of working with energy and consciousness meant to return you to your natural state
A Feral Beginning
I grew up in the seventies—barefoot, climbing trees, riding bikes until the streetlights came on, and getting up at 5 a.m. on Saturdays to watch cartoons. I was a creative, dyslexic, intuitive, and deeply sensitive kid who felt everything and often knew things I couldn’t explain. Being different wasn’t always easy. I was bullied, misunderstood, and spent a lot of time trying to figure out where I fit.
Because I was dyslexic, I didn’t always learn the way other people did. Simply explaining something to me wasn’t always enough—I needed to ask questions, pick it apart, look at it from every angle, and figure out how it worked for myself. That curiosity didn’t always go over well. As a child, I was asked not to return to Bible school because I asked too many questions.
Apparently, I’ve never been particularly good at accepting “That’s just the way it is” as an answer.
At the same time, I was experiencing the world in ways I didn’t understand. While other people seemed to experience intuition as an occasional moment, mine felt more like an ongoing conversation. I sensed patterns, noticed connections, and understood information I couldn’t always explain. I was constantly talking to things—prompting my mother, and later my children, to regularly ask, “Who are you talking to?”
Because I didn’t understand my sensitivities, I carried the emotions of others while neglecting my own and struggled to establish healthy boundaries. Over time, those patterns began to affect my body. My path into healing work was born from necessity, curiosity, and a deep desire to understand what was happening within me.
The Search for Understanding
The shift began when someone suggested hypnotherapy, which eventually led me to my first Reiki class. I didn’t know what Reiki was at the time—I only knew that I needed to be there.
That experience changed my life because, for the first time, I began to understand myself and my sensitivities in an entirely different way. I started to realize that I wasn’t broken. I had simply been receiving and communicating through languages that most of the people around me didn’t speak.
Once I had a few answers, my curiosity went into overdrive. I wanted to read every book, take every class, and explore anything that might help me understand how our physical and nonphysical systems worked together. This was before podcasts and online classes made everything accessible from the couch. If I wanted to learn something, I had to get in my car and drive all over the state to find someone teaching it...so that’s what I did.
For the first part of my life, I didn’t understand what was happening within me. I spent the next twenty years exploring it—questioning, studying, experimenting, and learning through direct experience.
The Education No Classroom Could Offer
Working directly with people and their energy systems, day after day, taught me more about healing than any book, classroom, or teacher ever could. Every person was different, yet I kept witnessing the same underlying pattern: the body, emotions, thoughts, intuition, memories, beliefs, and energy were always communicating—but they weren’t always understanding one another.
That lack of understanding could leave someone feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, physically depleted, or caught in patterns they couldn’t explain. Different parts of the same person could be working toward entirely different goals, each believing it was protecting them.
I had seen that same disruption within myself. As communication was restored, things began to make sense. I understood why I felt what I felt, why my body responded as it did, and why certain patterns kept repeating. I could make clearer choices because I was no longer fighting parts of myself I didn’t understand.
As I worked with hundreds of clients, I watched the same thing happen again and again. Lasting change wasn’t about removing, silencing, or fixing parts of ourselves. It happened when we could understand what those parts were communicating and help them begin working together again.
That understanding became the foundation of my work.
Becoming your feral mystic
As a modern-day mystic, I run free and wild through the unseen worlds, just as comfortable in the shadow as I am in the light. I seek direct experience of truth—not secondhand or through inherited belief, but through personal communion with the deeper intelligence of the universe, much like the ancient mystics did.
I pair that unbridled curiosity with a natural fluency in many energetic languages, translating subtle information into something that makes sense and can be practically applied to modern life.
Today, my work is about helping people understand themselves, their energy, and the many systems communicating within them. I help make the unseen more understandable, so people can recognize what is happening beneath the surface and make their own clearer, more empowered choices.
As Your Feral Mystic, I walk beside you—acting as a guide and translator. I listen deeply to what’s unspoken and help bring forward the real issues. I give you room to feel your feelings, even the dark and messy ones, and help you understand what the different parts of you have been trying to communicate.
This work isn’t based only on something I was taught. It grew from something I experienced firsthand, spent decades trying to understand, and then witnessed repeatedly while working with others.
Honesty, integrity, and compassion are at the heart of my work. You can expect truth delivered with kindness—and maybe even a little humor along the way.
the human behind the work
Outside of client work, I’m a homebody at heart. My life goal might secretly be “hermit.”
I love piddling around the house in my day-jammies, cleaning, organizing, decorating, or creating things. I’m happiest when life feels simple, quiet, and a little unscheduled.
I’ve always had a deep love for film—not just as entertainment, but as an art form. As a dyslexic kid who didn’t always connect easily with books, film became the place where I fell in love with storytelling. Going to the movies felt magical. I kept a calendar of release dates, saved my money for tickets, and walked to the theater on Fridays to catch new releases. That reverence for storytelling eventually led me to dabble in screenwriting and make a few short films. One of them, Saying Goodbye, was featured at the Phoenix Film Festival and the Filmstock Film Festival. I’m currently working on a fiction novel titled When Winter Settles in Your Bones.
When I’m not working, you’ll usually find me watching films, writing, reading, studying, doing yoga, meditating, crafting, sewing, doing puzzles, working on websites or video editing, cuddling my quirky crew of rescue animals—and, of course, napping.
At the core of it all, I’m a goofy, intuitive, creative Leo who loves conversation, laughter, exploring the deep end, and helping people feel a little more comfortable being human.
"I had the pleasure of experiencing sessions with Laurie, and the results have been nothing short of transformative. Laurie is welcoming and has a discerning energy which made me comfortable. The sessions were deeply insightful and offered valuable tools for personal growth and well-being."