Hey, I'm Andi.
I've been in love with the natural world for as long as I can remember.
As a kid, I spent every chance I got climbing trees, catching bugs, learning about plants, and wandering the California hills behind my grandparents' home. My favorite birthday wasn't spent at an amusement park—it was spent leading my friends through my favorite trails, shrouded hideaways, and teaching them everything I learned about the world I admired. Looking back, I think I've always loved inviting people into places that made me feel more alive.
That curiosity never really left me.
It led me to earth-centered spirituality, countless hours holed up in the religion section of libraries and online Pagan forums, and a lifelong habit of asking questions. Even as adulthood pulled me toward productivity, careers, and the version of success I thought I was supposed to want, there was always a quiet part of me searching for something more.
For a long time, though, I felt disconnected from myself. I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression in my late teens, and later discovered that many of the struggles I'd spent years blaming on personal failure were actually shaped by undiagnosed ADHD. That realization didn't solve everything overnight, but it gave me permission to stop fighting myself and start understanding myself.
From there, I began asking different questions.
What was giving me energy? What was taking it away?
I took an honest look at my relationship with social media, video games, weed, unfulfilling work, and even some of my relationships. Instead of trying to force myself into someone else's definition of a meaningful life, I started making small changes that reflected the life I actually wanted to live.
Along the way, I discovered practices like self-compassion and intentional living—not as ways to become someone new, but as ways to reconnect with the person I'd been all along.
Alchemy Untapped grew from that journey.
Today, I create retreats, workshops, videos, stories, and The Cairn to offer the kind of space I was searching for myself: a place to slow down, quiet the noise, reconnect with what matters, so that you can show up for yourself and for your life in the way you have always aspired to.
I don't believe I have your answers.
I believe you do.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that a meaningful life isn't something someone else can hand you. It's something you uncover for yourself. I'm simply grateful to walk alongside people as they find their own path—and, every now and then, to say, "There's something here I'd love to show you."
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Meet Andi
With the right support, we all have the magic to find our way back to ourselves.
i believe
In the summer of 2023, I went to the river with an old friend. She had been searching for a hag stone for years, so we set out to find one together. Not long into our search, I found one. I handed it to her without hesitation because I believed she understood its magic in a way I didn't yet.
She accepted it, and the moment passed as though nothing significant had happened.
It wasn't until much later that I realized that moment had quietly become a metaphor for the way I'd been living.
Again and again, I'd handed my intuition, my voice, and my power to people I believed were wiser, more experienced, or somehow more legitimate than I was, despite the years I'd spent cultivating my own practice and lived experience. I mistook confidence for competence and trusted other people's certainty more than my own inner knowing. I couldn't see my own authority, so I became dependent on people who appeared to possess it. They pointed me toward powerful parts of myself I hadn't yet claimed, but I mistakenly believed they were the ones who had placed them there.
Looking back, I wasn't really handing away the stone. I was handing away my trust in my own magic.
That realization changed everything.
I began questioning the stories I'd inherited about success, productivity, worth, and what it meant to live a meaningful life. I began remembering the parts of myself I'd spent years looking for in other people. I chose self-compassion over self-criticism, consistency over perfection, and my own growing confidence over the endless search for external validation.
Alchemy Untapped was born from that journey, Not to become another voice speaking over yours, but to help you trust your own.
