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There’s a quiet conversation happening inside you right now. Not a thought. Not a feeling. Something more subtle—like a flicker in your gut, a hum in your chest, a tug behind your eyes. We’re taught ...

I wrote this poem after returning home to Colorado Springs after a deep plunge into the underworld through The Animas Valley Institute with eco-philosopher Geneen Haugen and Mary Marsden in Aravaipa, ...

My life has been a series of ups and downs lately. It feels like a roller coaster ride, and I just want to get off. But we can’t just get off, can we? Whatever the ride may bring—good or bad, pleasant ...

We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...

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To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...

This script is intended for a facilitator to guide participants in a Yoga Nidra meditation practice. Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a technique used to produce states of healing and ...

This was one of the few gifts of 2020, as it put a colossal spotlight on the negative impact that spiritual bypassing has on the world and on ourselves.

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

What is a narcissistic discard? Simply put, when you’ve served your purpose for a certain person, you’re discarded by them. That’s it. You had little interest to this person as a living, breathing ...

But it’s actually a habit born from trauma and feeling unworthy. Symptoms include workaholism, perfectionism, and a need to control and plan. Other signs include heavy guilt over spending time on ...