About Anneliese....

My early years were a confusing juxtaposition of  dead ancestors talking to me about plants and medicines and living family pushing me to pursue academia and job security.   As an enrolled at-large citizen of the Cherokee Nation with other ancestors from England, Scotland, Germany and Scandinavia, I was surrounded by the cacophony of the dead while trying to be a good girl for the living.
 
I have been a witch for as many years as I've been a nurse.  (Nearly 20, but who is counting?) When I wasn't helping heal bodies as a nurse, I was helping heal my own (and others) spirits as a mystic and witch.  Many years were spent seesawing between mystic and nurse, Native and White, spiritual and intellectual, magical and mundane. Six years ago, I embraced my wyrd self and became a descendant and wisdom keeper of ancestors who are proud of me.  I am the village healer, the witch in the woods, the troll cunning woman, the häxa, yarbwoman and granny woman rising.

In addition to being a mom of teenagers and a psychiatric nurse at an acute care inpatient hospital,  I co-own Calyx Wellness Center in Austin, Texas.  There,  I teach classes and see clients for spiritual counseling and magical mentorship in the indigenous animist traditions of Northern European and Ozarkan folk magic and spirituality. Cherokee spirituality and magic is a part of my personal practice,  however, I don't teach this closed tradition.

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​As I continue on my spiritual path,   I honor my teachers, ancestors, guides and elders in this and other realms.   I honor the wisdom of my ancestors in other realms who have been whispering in my ear since I was young:  Thelma Faye, Alice Alwilda, Suzanna Peacock and Thankful Howard.   I am also deeply grateful to these earthbound elders and mentors:  Shelley Imholte, Heather Davies,  Imelda Almqvist, Tina Zion, Johannes Björn Gärdbåck, Ingrid Kincaid, Deanne Quarrie, Freyia Norling, Cedar Stevens and, of course, my wyrd poodles. ​​
For those of you who are curious to know more about study I have completed and groups that I am affiliated with:

Memberships
​North American Anthroposophical Nurses Association, 2020-present
Austin Pagan Pride Day Speaker, 2019
​Central Texas Cherokee Township Council Member, 2018-present
TejasWeb Community 2017-present
Earth Spirit People Pagan Community 2017-present
American Holistic Nurses Association Member, 2006-present
Alma de Mujer International Indigenous Womens' Network member, 2017-18
​Registered Nurse, 2001-present
Enrolled at-large citizen, Cherokee Nation, Western Branch

Trainings
M.Div, Neopagan Spirituality and Pastoral Counseling, Apple Branch Liminal Thealogical Seminary, 2021-present
Trolldom Mentorship with Johannes Björn Gärdbåck, 2019-present
Runes Mentorship with Ingrid Kincaid, 2018-present
Shamanic Remembering with Heather Davies and Shelley Imholte, 2019
Norse Shamanism with Imelda Almqvist, 2018
Certified Hypnotherapist, 2018
TejasWeb Reclaiming Witchcamp, 2017 and 2019
Natural Magick 1st degree priestess training with Cedar Stevens, 2017
Medical Intuition Training with Tina Zion, 2017
Clinical Herbalism Training, 2016
​Native Herbalism Mentorship, 2015
Creative Writing for Mystical People, 2010
Tantric Communication Level 1, 2009
Reiki/Energy Medicine Training, 2006
Introduction to Homeopathy, 2004
Healing Touch for Nurses training, 2000