A Path of Healing, Remembering, and Return
Dayna grew up in a home shaped by alcoholism, addiction, mental illness, and many forms of trauma and abuse. Like many who carry invisible wounds, she learned to survive by disconnecting from her truth, her intuition, her body, her voice, her True Self.
Early into adulthood, the pain she had buried began to surface. She suffered with deep woundedness/conditioning and faced her own struggles with addiction and codependency. Her inner world felt fragmented. Her spirit, weary. Her nervous system, fried and exhausted.
Recovery found Dayna when she entered the rooms of the 12 Steps. It was there she first tasted surrender, honesty, and the healing power of community. But her path didn’t end there. It unfolded into something deeper, a spiritual remembering.
She began to meditate daily. Over the years, she immersed herself in the wisdom of Buddhism, Indigenous ceremonies, shamanism, Advaita Vedanta, and Non-duality. She entered therapy, psychotherapy, DBT, EMDR, and yet, she was continually drawn to the sacred, the mystical, and the experiential. She found profound healing through Mind Clearing Therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, Enlightenment Intensives, dyad practices, inner child work, shadow integration, and self-inquiry.
Each practice was a thread in the tapestry of her healing. Each teacher, a mirror. Each experience, an invitation home.
Early in her recovery, she went back to school to begin her journey in becoming a Certified Addictions Counsellor. She knew she wanted to walk beside others, not from a place of having “arrived,” but from the truth of having walked through the fire—a fire in which she continues to walk.
Over the past 15 years, Dayna has supported thousands of individuals through their own journeys, whether in harm reduction settings such as Alberta Health Services' AASC and iOAT/ODP programs, or in 12-step-based recovery at Sunrise Healing Lodge. She has worked in clinical environments, healing lodges, and spiritual circles. But most passionately, she has worked heart to heart, soul to soul, human to human.
Dayna believes healing is better referred to as “Remembering.” Remembering. Returning. Reconnecting to the wholeness that has never left us, even when we have forgotten it.
Today, she welcomes you as you are, whether you're in crisis, just beginning to question old patterns, or deep in the work. She meets you where you are, not with judgment, but with reverence. She walks beside you, not ahead, not behind.
She brings with her the medicine of lived experience, clinical skill, and spiritual wisdom, woven together in a trauma-informed, heart-led way.
If you’re reading this and something stirs in you, know this:
You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too far gone. You are Sacred simply because You Are. And it would be her deepest honour to point you back to that Truth as you walk this journey together, side by side, heart to heart.
