Healing with help from your shadow
Do you know the story of Chiron? The wounded healer?
Chiron, a master of the healing arts, was accidentally struck by one of Hercules’s venomous arrows, causing him incurable, excruciating pain. As he was immortal, he was subject to live with his pain in perpetuity.
Yet, as a healer himself, Chiron’s wound allowed him to cultivate empathy and understanding for those he served. His pain allowed him to develop strength of character, and offer compassion to those he would help
When Things Feel Hard, Remember...
A couple of weeks ago while a guiding some folks in my private membership space, I had the experience of receiving the light of the summer sun into my water body, feeling it dancing across the surface like late afternoon dappled light. I could feel in an instant the way I am water, illuminated by light. How the elements of nature dance together inside of me, forming me, and informing me. How I receive intelligence, wisdom, energy, from the Sun. And it codes itself into my re
Healing our Wounds of Separation + Disconnection
I'm guessing you feel this too: that we are living through a world crisis (perhaps particularly centered in the United States.) We have...
Can You Let Earth Love You? Building Relationship with Earth
Earth Day is tomorrow, and so I've been pondering my relationship with Earth and how much it's changed over the course of my life. I've...
Your Senses: A Gateway into Relationship with Life
April has become one of my very favorite months since living in Portland. It feels as though almost overnight, the Earth breaks open in...
Equinox Medicine: Holding Duality within Ourselves
The land is waking up around us. (I’m sure you’ve noticed.) The crocuses and daffodils have shown up first to the party, showcasing their...
The Body is the Way
Every Winter season I’m inspired to talk about the body: the sacred temple of matter that we’re residing in on this Earth-plane. Our...
Portals of Grief and Heart
To many of our ancient ancestors, including my Celtic ones, this time of year was known for when The Otherworld drew near. (Watch my...
Embodied Ecology
Eco-somatics is the interface of where our bodies meet our surroundings and how we feel as we engage with this “Other.”
We are living with a living world, and it needs you
We are living with a living world. The waterways, stones, trees, and mountains... all of it ensouled and wise. All of it with medicine to...