Hello. I’m Arria Deepwater, a writer, speaker, spiritual healer and rest mentor. I use she/they pronouns and identify as queer, invisibly disabled, white, mostly-female, feminist, and faithfully middle aged.
Between the mid-nineties and 2011’ish I worked as an intuitive channeller and energy healer. I also produced and managed a successful holistic health fair and live variety shows, developed and hosted a community radio program, and performed spoken word, comedy and a wee bit of dance on stage. I studied to be a New Thought minister—a path that morphed into writing a book on spiritual development called “Love Threshold: Practicing the Art of Choosing Love in Every Moment,” which I (sort of) toured with it as a speaker and teacher.
Like so many others, I was ultimately called to a mystical path through the portal of healing a broken relationship with my body and soul, but would have ended up there one way or another. I was born a spiritual misfit. At the age of eight, I seriously considered becoming a nun, but that’s just because there weren’t any pagan priestesses around … that I knew of.
In 2012, a lifeline illness and disability called me into radical rest and learning new expressions of kindness within and to my body. Since that time I have spiralled into to my love of writing and committed to deepening my capacity for a peace beyond productivity.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I live and work on land that is unceded Omàmìwinì Algonquin Territory in an area with a deep history, which includes multiple Indigenous nations in relationship with it as traditional territory, and continues to be home to different Indigenous people today.
Thank you to the:
Smiths Falls Land Acknowledgement and those who contributed to it
Lanark County Neighbours for Truth & Reconciliationnative-land.ca
OFL Aboriginal Peoples Caucus