This is what I know in my bones:

Mythology heals.
We can tend to the wounds of separation - from the earth, from each other, from ourselves - when we remember to attune to the ancestors.

The oldest stories show us where we are and where we are going.
Myths reveal the perennial forces of human nature, but, even more importantly, they reveal the secrets and truths of the land and the more-than-human world.

We live in a both/and/also universe.
It’s possible to embrace the mystical, dance with the imaginal, commune with the natural, and look at our modern world with eye-wide-open rage and arms-wide-open love.

Welcome. Fáilte. I’m Marisa, and I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m a myth worker, a story healer, and a writing coach.

You might know me as the host of KnotWork Myth & Storytelling, the podcast where ancestral wisdom meets the modern imagination.

I’m an American with degrees in Irish literature from Boston College and University College Dublin. Most of my stories and inspiration are sourced from Ireland and the culture of my Celtic ancestors.

I live, love, work, and create on a continent that the indigenous peoples of this place call Turtle lsland.

Here is the question that fills my lungs each day:

What do home, belonging, and a connection to culture mean when you’re rooted into colonized land 3000 miles from your own ancestral source?

Four hundred years ago, the Hudson Valley was the place of the Lenape tribes, but both the people and their stories have essentially been erased.

My soul and imagination are fite fuiate - inextricably interwoven - with Ireland, but my family left there five generations ago.

To feel connected to both my “real home” and my “soul’s home” is a source of both pain and generativity.

How do I “do” home, culture, and belonging when I belong here, there, and nowhere?

My answer to that huge question is evolving, and it always will be.

When we court the unknown and let ourselves live the questions, we find ourselves exactly where we need to be: in deepest relationship with the entire sacred mystery.

What to expect when you subscribe to Myth is Medicine

My writing, podcast, programs and events are all devoted to the magic, the mystery, and creative possibility inherent in mythology.

As a writing coach, I tend to emphasize the power of picking up a pen and telling your own story, too.

You’ll hear from me every week, generally when the latest episode of KnotWork Myth & Storytelling released.

Paid subscribers will also receive:

• invitations to our Myth Workers’ Salons (held every other month)

• a ticket to my three-hour online writing retreats (held twice yearly)

• the satisfaction of knowing you’re keeping the KnotWork podcast on the air