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LEAKY MOOD MEDICINE ~ An Everyday Story of Fails and Wins
(Shared with consent from my son.) A few days ago, as I was navigating a confluence of triggering factors inside my system—from hormonal to astrological to unsettling collective unrest, I found myself in rare form. Having chosen an extension for filing my 2024 taxes,...
Ten Things That Don’t Suck
I bet some of you are familiar with Andrea Gibson’s newsletter “Things That Don’t Suck” that they started in June 2021, a couple weeks before they were diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer, and that is now, in the wake of their death this past June, devotedly tended here on...
Making Medicine of Ambiguous Loss: A Nine-Part Story
This is a personal story of true love found and lost, and of my effort to make medicine from what has eclipsed an easy resolution. I offer it in case it meets you in your own reckoning with ambiguous loss, and invites some sense of alliance or companionship along your...
Making Medicine of What Breaks Us
I began writing this piece a couple of months ago, gently tiptoeing back toward finding the words for what had been living tenderly unexpressed in my heart. Still emerging from what has been, without question, the most challenging three-year passage of my adult life,...
Daughter Mirror: A Love Letter
Halfway through a rare, luxurious 90-minute call with my beautiful, beloved daughter Arayla Grace this morning—who is 20 years old now and blossoming on her uniquely soul-driven path 2,500 miles away from me—she shared casually that a few weeks ago, she had suddenly...
Meeting Life~ A New Substack Publication
Hello Loves, I wanted to let you know I’ve created a newborn Substack publication called Meeting Life. For some time, I’ve been feeling called to move my writing into an online space where I can share my heart-speak more freely, and perhaps more widely. I’d be...
Emerging from The Underworld: Humbled, New, and Poised ✨
Dearest Ones, It’s been many, many moons since I shared my heart deeply in this space. More than two and a half years of moons, in fact. The truth is, I’ve missed you dearly, and I’ve missed sharing myself with you in this way. My heart goes to you now as you read...
Reminders for Sanity
Midnight Uber Angels & Surprising Mirrors of Grace
Last August I moved around quite a bit in my vocation as a traveling shaman. One of my favorite parts of my work travels was the inadvertent exposure to over 20 Uber drivers, most of them from other countries; such an undeniable glimpse into the many-flavored...
“So Perfect”— A Love Story about Listening
There’s one story I carry about my daughter that will always live on the altar for me, because of the tender teaching it continuously provides. Several years ago, when my daughter Arayla was in her early teens, I began to overhear a phrase she would say almost every...