I’m Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth, and I'm on a joyful quest for a deeper wisdom.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on this quest. My natural spiritual curiosity and passion led me to spend over a decade researching and teaching in the academic fields of religion, spirituality, and neuropsychology.
In my mid-thirties, just having landed my dream job at Boston University, I found myself at a crossroads. My dad was dying, a niece was caught in the child protection system, and my husband and I were wanting to begin a family. Deep down, I knew that the breakneck pace of professorship at a research university was keeping me from my truest self—a self who was mindful, compassionate, joyful, present, open, unrushed, and unafraid. It was time to really walk pathways of sacred wisdom instead of just studying them.
And so, after devoting the entirety of my young adult years to ascending the ladder of higher education, in 2016, I walked away.
It’s been four years since I made that change, and I’m so glad I did. I’m not just Dr. Hollingsworth anymore; I’m a mama and an auntie, a greenhorn gardener and a novice yogi.
I’m also finding immense joy in my role as an online teacher and counselor. I delight in taking the academic research I spent so much of my life on, and re-packaging it in beautiful and accessible ways so that it nourishes and inspires a broader audience.
I live in Maple Grove, Minnesota, with my husband, Ryan, and our three-year-old son, Bennett.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on this quest. My natural spiritual curiosity and passion led me to spend over a decade researching and teaching in the academic fields of religion, spirituality, and neuropsychology.
In my mid-thirties, just having landed my dream job at Boston University, I found myself at a crossroads. My dad was dying, a niece was caught in the child protection system, and my husband and I were wanting to begin a family. Deep down, I knew that the breakneck pace of professorship at a research university was keeping me from my truest self—a self who was mindful, compassionate, joyful, present, open, unrushed, and unafraid. It was time to really walk pathways of sacred wisdom instead of just studying them.
And so, after devoting the entirety of my young adult years to ascending the ladder of higher education, in 2016, I walked away.
It’s been four years since I made that change, and I’m so glad I did. I’m not just Dr. Hollingsworth anymore; I’m a mama and an auntie, a greenhorn gardener and a novice yogi.
I’m also finding immense joy in my role as an online teacher and counselor. I delight in taking the academic research I spent so much of my life on, and re-packaging it in beautiful and accessible ways so that it nourishes and inspires a broader audience.
I live in Maple Grove, Minnesota, with my husband, Ryan, and our three-year-old son, Bennett.