greetings and salutations!

Hi, I'm Dr. Marie, and I don't believe you need fixing.

Because you're not broken.

You've just got some stories (that in the past have been vitally important for your survival!) that are keeping you out of alignment with your soul's calling.

My Back Story

I’ve spent most of my life navigating between two worlds.

As a PhD raised by two PhDs, my brain developed to value
logic, analysis, and intellectual rigor. (I seriously got a perfect score on the logic section of my GRE.)

Meanwhile, I struggled as chronic illnesses made it increasingly difficult to do the work I thought I was here to do in the world.

I got SO frustrated, desperately trying to heal myself when the
“experts” (conventional doctors trained in “logic”) only had answers that made me feel worse. This frustration (true to my design as a Manifesting Generator) pulled me intuitively towards holistic healing practices and embodied energy work.

And for SO many years, I thought I had to choose. That I had to keep my “serious” research separate from the deep wisdom I was discovering about how to truly thrive.

Eventually, I understood: These aren’t separate at all.

Human Design gave me the framework to understand the
patterns that I had sensed intuitively and the logic to explain why they worked. It helped me connect the dots between what I knew about learning, transformation, and self-trust—both from my academic upbringing and from my own lived experience.

When I teach Art History, I tell my students: Ultimately,
what we’re learning about here is what it means to be human.

With Human Design, it’s exactly the same.

Now, I use that same blend of logical insights and intuitive wisdom to help others follow their souls’ callings. I guide them to trust themselves, honor their unique gifts, and change their worlds.

Because the best answers to what it means to be me, or you, or any other unique human?

Those answers don’t come from thinking. They come from alignment.

My Hard-Earned Wisdom


Level 4 Certificate in Quantum Human Design

Level 2 Certification in Quantum Alignment System

(EFT Tapping + Human Design)


Certificate in Reiki for All Species Level 3:

Usui Tibetan Master Teacher

PhD, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

BAU (an oddball way to say Bachelors with Honors),

Xavier University (majors: Theology & French)

Other things

I'm kind of proud of

My body, for growing🤰🏻and nurturing a small human 👶🏻

into a healthy, happy fledgling 🐤 who’s itching to take flight✈️

(after 6 years of infertility 💔)

Healing gut dysbiosis 🦠,

insulin resistance 🍭,

and morbidly ☠️ high blood pressure🩸

without ℞ pharmaceuticals 💊 and

WITH conventional physicians’ 👨🏻‍⚕️support

(rather than gaslighting ⛽💡)

Being able consistently to walk🚶🏻‍♀️10k steps per day,

despite my invisible disability ♿ (a severe spinal cord disorder)

and mental health 🧠 challenges

That most of my students 🧑🏿‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓 say they

feel safe 🦺 in my courses on my evaluations 📝

(which is HUGE considering the

❌🙅‍♂️educational trauma 🏫😡

most of my students have experienced)

🗣 Speaking to a stadium 🏟 of over 10,000 people

as 🎓valedictorian of my university 🏛️

(and at over 60 academic conferences since)

Building this website! 💻

(Because I can learn to do hard things.)

IMHO:

Three Things I Believe In

Grounded Spirituality

I believe in energy work and intuition—AND I believe in logic and critical thinking. You don’t have to choose between being spiritual and being practical. When I work with clients, I bridge both worlds, making energetic transformation actionable for real life and grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and learning theory.

Our Bodies Show the Way to Alignment

Your mind will try to logic its way through everything. But your body? It knows. Or sometimes my body knows for you. When I work with clients, I frequently find that as they move through their own deconditioning process, I feel it in my body – I shake, burp, cough, etc.

So even if my client doesn’t feel (yet) their body’s primary guidance system, I can serve as a proxy for them. When we start deconditioning, releasing the emotions and energies trapped in our very cells and muscles, we stop fighting ourselves—and start moving into flow.

Your Next Step is Already Within You

You don’t need more advice. You don’t need someone else’s miracle formula for success. You need to return to you. I don’t do one-size-fits-all answers. I help you reconnect with your authentic self so that your next step becomes intuitively right.

Fun Facts About Me

I used to grow 15-foot-tall tomato plants in my garden.

(Now I eat a mostly lectin-free diet, so fresh tomatoes are sadly off the plate … literally! for now at least.)

Study Abroad groups of 20+ students have followed me around Rome and Paris,

and I’ve only accidentally hit one or two of them with my guide pole.

Almost every day (in season), I get to see a heron out my back windows.

Watching those miniature dinosaurs take flight never ceases to take my breath away.

During grad school, I ran a farm co-op raw milk pick-up site.

(Who knew you could fit three 120-quart coolers in a Nissan Versa??)

I knew Emma Amos was a Guerrilla Girl YEARS before it was revealed .

How, you ask? I made a spreadsheet and FB stalked Erika Rothenberg's friends. IYKYK.

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