ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS
Light & Clarity Emerge Returning to Taos from my brief junket in Portland, Oliver and I moved into our second rental. A sweet little house, with a lovely kitchen, gas fireplace, comfortable furniture and a fenced yard. My routine – out early on the frosty mornings for coffee, breakfast and writing time at a local … Read more
The Road to Taos I drove 12 hours from the mountaintop hotel in Utah to Taos. The drive was gorgeous – through Zion National Park, across Utah, Arizona – with a smidge of Colorado mixed in – into New Mexico. A sleepless night preceded the long drive, yet somehow, I felt alert, awake and fully … Read more
Evolving Through Whimsy I left Portland because I felt tired, stifled and stressed. I needed a break from my ‘normal’ life and routine. I was seeking inspiration and focus to take my work to its next iteration. A trusted consultant asked me when the last time was that I followed my whimsy, following that question … Read more
Evolving is Incremental When I look back at where my life was a year ago, I can hardly believe the difference. In a nutshell, I: migrated from the East to the West moved from 16 acres in the woods to a loft in the city have an online classroom instead of a brick and mortar … Read more
Changes Comes Easy…Or Not! I’ve been thinking a lot about change lately. The way change can come easily while at other times a knock-down, drag-out battle occurs – between the existing and the emerging self. I’ve had a lot of time to think. I’ve been on a road trip through Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and … Read more
What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means that whatever you attract, carry and vibrate in your field, your Aura, is your responsibility. But I’m an empath, say many. I feel and carry the burdens, suffering and pain that others are experiencing. It’s one of my ways of relating to the world. Are you telling … Read more
Community Garden I’m loving playing in my oh-so-manageable 400 sq. ft. plot at my Community Garden. I work alone in my little plot – it’s more than plenty for my needs. As a member of the community, I’m expected to do 6 hours of community work each season. My time to contribute is coming, and … Read more
Emotional Entanglement – Countertransference Do you have any idea what it’s like to sit in a therapeutic/healing session and discover that what the patient is describing is similar to what’s occurring in your own experience? It happens all the time! It’s called countertransference. And it’s a wild and woolly experience for a practitioner! If you … Read more
Day 1 – Community Garden I’m thrilled. I applied for and nearly immediately received a plot in a community garden. Many of the gardens that I perused online had multiple year waiting lists. I waited less than 4 weeks and was given (for $100/year) a 400 sq. ft. plot – 20 x 20, enclosed in … Read more
Meet The issue, person, emotion, physical pain, mental musing, spiritual crisis head on. Straight up. Say hello. Invite it in. Even if it terrifies you. Greet The underlying story, the root cause analysis, the underbrush and move in to the work. Yes, exactly. Just do it. A meet and greet is just that – … Read more
Pain-body is Painful Truly painful. And petulant. Touchy. Techy. Fractious. Cranky. One client recently made the connection between ignoring internal insights and the onset of sinus infections. Clears that up, right? A colleague with a chronic injury clearly perceives the difference between true physical pain and pain-body responses. Before working to alleviate physical pain, he … Read more
A Chakra Khan Story Chakra Khan spent years out of her body. Years, truly. Childhood memories? Relatively few. In school, weird dissociated feelings when taking tests: was that material ever even mentioned in class? Or even stranger, the vague feeling that some of the subjects and lessons crossed the cranium, but others never came close! … Read more
‘Metaphysical’ Nonsense Yesterday CK saw a post on her Facebook feed from a well-known purveyor of New Age and ‘metaphysical’ content. It was all about Contracts. How each of us creates a series of contracts that we bring in with us. They’re inviolate, we’re stuck with them and that’s how life rolls. Lordy, lordy – … Read more
So many of us are empaths – we feel other people’s energy and emotions. In fact, the Internet is riddled with posts and articles about Emotional Vampires, Energy Vampires and other treatises on managing sensitivity. Feeling Other People’s Stuff Doesn’t Make You A Better Healer When healing practitioners feel their patients energy and emotions or … Read more
Sing it: There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays! Do you watch, hum along to the holiday jingles – and HOPE? Might the holiday go by without a snap, a slap or feeling like crap? Tingling and longing – could we all just get along? Hoping and humming – could we all just be … Read more