Drea is an author, writer and story doula working at the intersection of wellness, culture, and connection.

Trained in natural medicine modalities, medical anthropology and immersed in the health and wellness field for over two decades, Drea brings a rare combination of academic grounding and lived, embodied experience. Her background spans neuroscience, nutrition, trauma-informed somatic psychology, and Chinese medicine, alongside field-based ethnographic work in women’s health and community-centered care. She has studied herbal medicine, trained as a labor and delivery doula, yoga practitioner, and Zen Shiatsu bodyworker.

As an award-winning travel writer with more than a decade of experience in copywriting, proposal writing, communications and web design, Drea has helped doctors, therapists, and health practitioners translate complex bodies of knowledge into clear, cohesive educational platforms. She is a traditionally published co-author of a book on Kriya breathwork meditation with Dr. Lowenstein.

Her work is shaped not only by formal study but by long-term apprenticeship and ceremony with traditional medicine carriers from Lakota, Mexica, Quechua, Hawaiian, Chinese, West African, and Indian traditions. These teachings are held with humility and expressed through her own lived synthesis rather than as representation of any single lineage.

A mother of two children born at home in two different countries and recovery from illness and domestic violence has deepened her commitment to women’s sovereignty, agency, and embodied self-trust. These experiences inform the compassion, social justice and steadiness she brings to both institutional documentation and individual memoir and manuscript development.

She lives and works between worlds; field and page, history and ceremony, helping those with stories to tell share in a language that carries their vision into futures.