BIO

Mishara is a strategic mental wellness consultant, archivist and coach with 18+ years of experience in the mental health industry

-10 of those years have been spent as a licensed pleasure, play & recreation-based therapist.

Background

Mishara is an adventurer since childhood & therapist for almost a decade.

Her life experiences include life-long body-honesty and commitment since college to whole community healing through self awareness, self accountability and self compassion.

A graduate of The University of Chicago in 2012, she started her business in 2016. That 1st year culminated in her initiating and hosting the midwest’s largest Human Library with the power of her local community members. By 2020, she had produced 13 one-of-a-kind experiences for mental wellness.

She continues her work through curiosity and deep faith in individuals, their bodies, their communities & their ancestors as experts on their own healing.

Focus:

Mishara believes bodies remember intergenerational pleasure and healing experiences, as strongly as they remember intergenerational harm. She specializes in integrating pleasurable leisure recreation into mental wellness skills, care, training and socially adaptable events & experiences.

Contribution:

Mishara uses her expertise in the history and science of communal pleasure to help communities and institutions plan, design, and execute interactions & experiences that are full of wonder, pleasure, sensory engagement, and ease.  She dreams of us remembering and creating pleasurable ways of being.