hello! i’m Sol.

mother, energy healer, and lifelong spiritual seeker.

My mission is to share hope, simple energy medicine tools, and guided meditations to help tired hearts feel steadier and stronger, with extra love for moms.

As a Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, and student of esoteric teachings, this mission still surprised me. But I believe Spirit has a plan here.

I’m dreaming of a sacred space where anyone carrying too much can exhale, reconnect to their power, and act. Mamas especially. I hope you’ll join me.

But let’s back up. How did I come to this?

I’ve been a writer my whole life, starting with journaling at about 12. For more than two decades, I was also an investigative writer for responsible investors.

I researched how public companies affected our earth, our health, and our communities, and wrote countless reports for fund managers, foundations, and university endowments. I loved it. It taught me research, writing, and how the world really works: industrial agriculture, supply chains, climate change, profit motives, and some of the scary shit that happens under the radar. Every day.

I’ve been a spiritual seeker all my life.

I started journaling young because it was the only way I could find to soothe myself. I had a tumultuous childhood, with no one asking how I was doing. Little did I know that writing it all down was an energetic process to release and renew.

My mother, complicated and highly sensitive, didn’t know how to regulate her emotions or actions. Whenever a challenge arose, and there were many, she fought hard and often tried to flee. From us. And told us so, over and over.

I believed her, as a child would, and did everything I could to make her happy. What would happen if our mother left, with our father barely around? I was the parent, and she was the child. But at least she was still there, right?

I left for college as if I were running away. And I was so much happier there. For the first time in my life, I realized people actually liked me.

My healing journey really began in my mid-20s, when I realized I was seriously depressed.

I kept falling for the wrong guys (or, more accurately, I was wrong in so many ways). I lived with constant panic, confusion, self-hatred, and deep sadness. As many do, I self-medicated with alcohol and drugs.

Until I hit a new low and started therapy. My wonderful talk therapist patiently listened to my youthful gibber-gabber and helped me see how my childhood shaped my behaviors. Really? I thought. Is it that simple and cliché?

Around this time, I started to meditate. One short sit at a time.

A friend at work made meditation seem cool, along with wacky things like sweat lodges and the Landmark Forum. I laugh now, but that’s where I first learned that there are things I don’t know that I don’t know.

I know I don’t know nuclear physics. But how many things exist that I have no awareness of? Would I even see them if they passed me by? Like love, opportunity, and beauty?

What mattered was that I started to observe myself, with presence and without judgment. Through meditation, I found that “I” was there, beneath the louder, panicky voices. The “I am” floated up like a cork in water. It felt like freedom. Like my true home, one no one could touch.

Meditation has been with me ever since. The practice ebbs, flows, and changes, but it’s my #1 self-care tool, my friend whenever I feel off or I’m working toward something.

This path opened doors to healing and growth I’d never imagined.

People might call this personal growth. But for me, I just wanted to feel better than before, and better than before. So I continued to meditate, to look inward, and to constantly investigate what else there was to know.

This approach has allowed me to:

Become a mother.

For a long time, I didn’t want children. But the question wouldn’t go away. With the help of energy coach Summer McStravick, I realized I didn’t want to recreate my childhood or my relationship with my mom. Yet my subconscious kept nudging me, so annoyingly, that I had to look at it for real.

During a guided meditation at a silent retreat, I began to heal my mother wound. In a vision I’m sure came from Spirit, I knew I would become a mother, and that I could access a mother’s love, directly from Spirit, for myself and others.

Motherhood hasn’t been natural or easy for me, for reasons both personal and societal. But it has been my single biggest challenge and my path of spiritual growth.

Become an energy healer.

Energy healing caught me completely by surprise. When my daughter was about a year old, I went to a meditation retreat with Dr. Joe Dispenza. It included something called Coherence Healing, where meditators circle one person and focus their energy and love toward that person’s healing. (They still do this, and it’s AMazing.)

At my first one as a healer, I simply followed Dr. Joe’s instructions. When I extended my hands, I felt energy (prana, ki, chi) flowing through my arms, as real as water or fire. It had density. It came from above, and my arms felt as hard as tree limbs. My face? Tears, snot, and smiles. So. Much. Love. What was that, right?

Three years later, I received my first Reiki attunement. And five years later, I completed a rigorous Reiki Mastership program with my teacher, Sierra North, at the Muktinath Holistic Center.

Become a healer mother.

Soon after we brought our second child home, we suspected food allergies. After more than a year of some of his doctors calling me an ignorant, overzealous mother, we got the diagnosis: wheat, dairy, and sesame. His first anaphylaxis came soon after.

Western medicine has few answers right now, and no treatments for the source of the problem. Then, in May 2024, he had a reaction that required two epinephrine injections. Seeing your little one suffer like that, at just 5 years old, does something to you.

The mama bear in me came out full-force.

I knew the power of energy. So many in Dr. Joe’s community had healed themselves through meditation, and so many mamas had helped their kids heal. I’d completed my Reiki Mastership and felt confident. So I vowed to do everything I could to help my baby heal.

I’ve given him energy healing ever since: Dr. Joe’s Coherence Healing, Reiki, and now Pranic Healing. First every day and night, then every day, and now twice a week.

Because he also showed signs of asthma, we worked to remove bad air (VOCs and CO2) from our home. We deep-cleaned the vents, installed an energy recovery ventilator for fresh air, and replaced our gas stove with induction. We also worked with a naturopathic doctor to test his toxic load, and cleaned much of it up with intentional nutrition and supplements.

He hasn’t had a major reaction since May 2024, and his lung function improved from 64 to 100 percent. We’re not done yet. But I can finally exhale and look around a bit.

Mother Light Sanctuary is for me and for you.

A couple of years ago, my boss at the research job retired unexpectedly early and closed the business. I could look for another job in the field, or lean into the unknown and create a place for myself in energy work. Spirit, no doubt, had a hand in what came next.

I know what it’s like to run on empty and lie awake worried about someone you love. I know it most deeply as a mom of a child with health challenges. We moms are the first line of care in a stressful time, and we don’t have any more support. But tired hearts come in all shapes: caregivers, daughters of aging parents, healers who forget to heal themselves.

The idea for this website came as visions in my meditations, again and again, until it was clear this was a call. Supporting you IS supporting myself. 🙂

And “Mother Light”? It’s the mother’s love I touched in that silent retreat vision, available directly from Spirit. It belongs to all of us, whether or not we’re mothers.

My mission is to share hope, simple energy medicine tools, guided meditations, and clean living tips to help tired hearts heal and come home to themselves, with extra love for moms and their little ones.

You’ll find my guided meditations on YouTube and Insight Timer, and new posts here on the blog.

Thank you so much for being here. I’m truly honored, and I hope you’ll keep joining me.

In case this might be helpful…

Here are some of my technical qualifications:

• Reiki Master & Karuna Reiki Practitioner in the lineage of Sierra North at the Muktinath Holistic Center
• Pranic Healer in the lineage of Pranic Healing USA.
• BA in International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University
• MBA at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

I’ve also been a student of Dr. Joe Dispenza since 2017.

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THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS…

1. Living next to tall trees and hearing their leaves dance in the wind. Having a garden to weed.
2. Watching my children eat something delicious and healthy. A bonus if I made it.
3. Having a mystical experience, small and big.
4. Soup. A hot, savory bowl of soup on a chilly day.