I wasn’t always this version of myself…
Here’s me in 2018. 300 pounds. Lost. Suicidal. Lonely. Drinking a bottle of whiskey a night.
That smile? It’s a mask. A survival tactic.
I was in a freefall of addiction, depression, and deep disconnection from my body, my purpose, and the people who loved me most. I had no tools. No language for what I was feeling. Just pain I kept trying to outrun. Doctor’s diagnosed me with everything under the sun – Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, and Bipolar Disorder. I knew something was wrong, but it couldn’t be ALL of these things. I was on a cocktail of psychiatric medications to ease the symptoms, but none addressed the ROOT issues. Through years of Talk-Therapy, Nervous System Regulation, Bio-Integration, Somatic Movement, and other modalities of inner-work. I’m fortunate to say that I haven’t taken a single one of these medications in over 3 years.
My name is Kyle:
An Integrative Somatic Practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Coach, Ecstatic Dance Facilitator, Men’s Group Leader, and wilderness devotee. But above all, I’m a student of land, of language, of lineage, and of the body’s quiet, aching truth.
I grew up moving across the U.S., with a formative chapter in rural Alaska where the land first claimed me as its student. I’ve since walked many paths: actor, dancer, musician, earning an MBA, surviving addiction, climbing mountains, sitting in ceremony with plant teachers, and listening to wisdom carried by sweat, silence, and song.
Through it all, I’ve come to believe this:
The body holds the story. And the Earth holds the remembering.
For most of my adolescent life and well into my 20’s, I chased the rush of alcohol, drugs, women, sex, performance, competition, and validation. I became an expert at escape: from pain, from responsibility, from my own body. I broke trust. I crossed boundaries. I hurt people. I hurt myself. Not because I was evil, but because I was exiled from myself. I had never learned how to stay. How to feel. How to listen. Instead, I chose to allow things outside of myself to determine my worth and sit in the drivers seat of my life.
And then the world, and those I love most, called me in.
What followed was not a single moment of transformation, but a long path of reckoning, repair and return: a descent into the roots of my trauma and the old stories stored in my fascia and bones. A surrender to shadow, and a gradual reawakening to the soul that had never stopped speaking.
That journey became my medicine. And now, it’s what I offer others.
The Work
Through Of Wild and Worth, I guide others into embodied healing, sacred initiation, and spiritual rewilding through:
- Somatic Awareness Work & Trauma Integration – rewriting the nervous system’s survival patterns through presence, awareness, and touch
- Reiki & Energetic Attunement – clearing, aligning, and reconnecting to your subtle bodily wisdom
- 1:1 Soul Coaching – guiding you through thresholds of grief, purpose, heartbreak, becoming, and transformation
- Men’s Work & Wilderness Retreats – 1:1 earth-based rites of passage for men, families, couples, or parental-child pairs, and group/co-facilitated wilderness retreats for all genders ready to lead and learn from integrity and soul
The Invitation
This isn’t self-help. This is soul retrieval.
This is remembering what your body already knows.
This is slowing down enough to hear what the land, and your life, have been trying to tell you.
If something here resonates, that’s not an accident. That’s the wild within you recognizing itself. It’s ancient wisdom asking you to remember.
Let’s begin.
Of Wild and Worth 