Born in 1949, on the cusp of the Sagittarius and Capricorn Signs, I experienced a traumatic childhood. Joining the Navy in 1970, I worked as a RN, BSN during the Vietnam War. I moved quickly from hospital nursing to community nursing, hospice, and public health. I worked in the Aids Epidemic  until 2014, when I retired. My husband died in 2020 after a long battle with Parkinson’s dementia. I struggled with emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual dimensions of my life journey. I studied the psychology of Carl Jung and his second-generation analytical and archetypal psychology. I completed one year of a two-year master’s course at the Pacifica Institute, but due to my husband’s illness was not able to finish the last year for the degree. I have been in Jungian Analysis for 50 plus years and continue to work with a Jungian Analyst on an as-needed basis. Art has been my life savior, having had no training. Though I have done fine art, I find the mysterious beginner approach to be the most meaningful and personal way of being an artist. As a nurse and as a peer-to-peer support group facilitator, I work with NAMI to enable peers struggling with emotional and mental struggles. Though medical focus on mental struggles is one approach I value, it is the broader and wider view on such healing that most expresses my role as a peer support.  I have a foundation for all my healing based on medical, art, relationships, and faith, which attributes my wholness.