Winter’s Invitation: An Embodied Sense of Safety
Sometimes Winter likes to remind us that she’s still here, especially as we feel new life stirring and Spring within grasp. It’s almost...
A Ritual to Receive a Gift from the Darkness
We’re in our final days of the descending darkness, soon to arrive at the Winter Solstice, on the 21st, where the sun stands still at the...
Between Death and Rebirth: Finding Your Worth
Tomorrow is true astrological Samhain, or the mid-point between Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice. It is the portal into the darkest weeks...
The Best Possible "Gateway Drug"
Image from United Plant Savers This is a story about one of my first powerful plant spirit medicine experiences. It was one that took...
The Holy Well of Grief
A few nights ago I woke up with a deep ache in my chest. A dream I was still floating in had drawn to the surface old stories,...
How Can We Receive More Support?
“Inviting your body to gently let go will allow you to receive more support.” This is something close to what my yoga teacher said this...
On Power and Control
I recently had a major revelation. That somewhere locked deep in my body, my unconscious mind, was a belief that if I let go of control,...