I just returned last week from a 9 day spiritual retreat and vision quest in New Mexico, where my family spent a considerable portion of our 7-year odyssey ; time away is time well spent if you are interested in having perspective on your life. It takes being outside...
I am learning how much I want my children to be happy. Of course, many of us want children to be happy; we want to protect their innocence and joy, as we wish someone had done for us. I think the instinct to be protective of children is a good one…until we start...
What do you do when someone wants more from you than you can genuinely, conscientiously give? Sometimes people project their happiness onto others and expect them to fulfill those fantasies, at the risk of destroying the relationship. The burden of someone else's...
Embodied Spirituality 3...A genuine exploration on my part of whether there is such a thing as a mistake (I find that there IS), and how that fits into the spiritual scheme of things. I have found in my life that the defining moment is whether I KNEW BETTER and did...
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house. ~Phoebe Cary I have known for a long time that humanity...
"Embodied Spirituality 2-Follow the Magic"-the next in this video series, guest starring my very wise 14-year-old son, Aidan! We talk about our experiences as a family in practicing everyday Embodied Spirituality, and how to feel the flow of Spirit (and know when...
What an extraordinary week it has been. As I've moved through my days this week, I have been guided to look with open eyes towards aspects of myself that I have not wanted to believe. My eyes were shielded by my reluctance to own parts of myself that did not fit what...
My latest video series deals with what I call "Embodied Spirituality." Long an advocate for bringing "the spiritual" into our every day life, rather than reserved for a special day of the week; or talking about spirituality as if it lives out there somewhere above us...
I have discovered something important. Owning my power means owning my darkness. By darkness, I mean the things about myself I don’t want to see, the things that I repress, or stuff down into the tissues of my body, or my unconsciousness. By darkness, I don’t mean...
Wise Ways 3-The Feminine, Unity Consciousness and Healing Here's the 3rd installment of my Wise Ways video-blog series, where I speak about the feminine re-integration in the collective human psyche, the word "healing", and the misconception of unity consciousness.