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Midnight Uber Angels & Surprising Mirrors of Grace

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...

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“So Perfect”— A Love Story about Listening

“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...

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On Our Knees Is Not The Worst Place To Be

On Our Knees Is Not The Worst Place To Be

It’s been a hot minute, (a six-month-long, somewhat grueling hot minute) since I really engaged online. And so, I’d like to start by just saying: I love you. I love you and I’ve missed engaging, and I’m sorry that I’m not always authentically capable of sharing my...

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Wholeheartedly Teaching to an Empty Room

Wholeheartedly Teaching to an Empty Room

Earlier this week, for two days in a row I wholeheartedly showed up to teach a webinar to an empty room of zero participants! The day before that, on the first day of the webinar, I had one attendee, sitting there in her little zoom box, receiving every word. Because...

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21 Keys to Sanity While Stewarding Teens

21 Keys to Sanity While Stewarding Teens

21 KEYS TO SANITY WHILE STEWARDING TEENS 1. We are rewarded in our willingness to endure difficult, painful, and even messy conversations with our teens, in which complexity, triggers, and tears might arise, on both sides. 2. It’s never about perfect. It’s about...

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Treasures from The Trenches of Parenting Teens

Treasures from The Trenches of Parenting Teens

It’s always a fruitful challenge to try and glean the treasures of something while still in the jaws of its medicine, right? ✨ Recently I received a text from one of my longtime, dearest friends. She and I have been soul sisters since before we became mothers, and...

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FEELING IT

FEELING IT

A couple of mornings ago, when my son woke up and came out of his bedroom, he found me sitting at the kitchen table, staring at my computer, my eyes moist with tears. Concerned, he asked me, “What’s going on, Mom? What’s happening?” I wiped away my tears, looked at...

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When I Think I Know Anything, I’m A Fool

When I Think I Know Anything, I’m A Fool

When I think I know what to expect from someone’s heart or mind or soul, I’m a fool. Anything my mind perceives about what can and cannot be healed is limited perception at best. Some I’ve initially imagined might be traumatized beyond repair have then revealed an...

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“If our love for life remains conditional, based upon us getting our own way or life looking the way we want it to, we remain defended against the slap of life’s ruthless uncertainty.

The degree to which our hearts are guarded and armored against life’s horrors is the exact degree to which we are also closed to its brilliant love, beauty, and joy.”

 

“If we learn how to consciously meet our suffering, then even our suffering is the precise medicine needed to bring us deeper home to life and to love. ” 

“As we learn to open wider to the depth of grief that is here for us—personally, collectively, and globally—we can allow the honest inclusion of our brokenness to bring us home to what’s unbreakable.  ”