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When Spiritual Emergence Becomes Spiritual Emergency
Pain can make you want to die, can make you want to leave and shut the door behind you. My pain makes me die and makes me live. It is my resurrection, my initiation—a great unfolding in my master plan. It opens my eyes to other people, to their profound joys and sorrows. What happens when you die? They ask. Well, what happens when you live? Don’t tell me I’ll get through this and that one day it’ll be all right. I am here, now, and it is not wrong. Setting Out On the Path of


At Home on Earth: Lessons on Being Enough
How much of how we live our lives revolves around a deep feeling of not being enough? Enough, just as we are, to be worthy of money, of resp


Shadow Work: Finding Wholeness in Relationship
This isn’t a cliché post about overcoming a toxic relationship and moving on.


Plant Spirit Allies: Healing Trauma with Coregulation
A luminous being appeared to me, telepathically explained they were the spirit of chuchuwasi, then became so bright and powerful that I...


Psychedelic Integration: Healing after Catharsis
Mushrooms, ayahuasca, marijuana, ibogaine, san pedro, cacao, and other psychedelics are now gaining enormous popularity all over the world


What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?
We've all heard of post-traumatic stress. But what about post-traumatic growth? Have you ever gone through something incredibly...


Trauma and the Unlived Life - Grieving What We've Lost
My tween years were filled with adventures, made invaluable by my close-knit and friendly circle. I remember spending a whole summer at an o


Anxiety + Attachment Styles
Curious about attachment styles? In this brief article, I summarize the four types (ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and secure).


Hypervigilance vs Healthy Vigilance: The Trauma of Marginalization
You’re a woman in her early thirties, dressed nicely, and on the bus coming home from work. It’s about 7pm, and dusk is arriving. You take y


Towards Healing Racialized Trauma #blacklivesmatter
Hello, friends. Well, this is a time of transition! We are all asking what we can do to support the shift that wants to happen away from...


The 35-Second Reset — one question to switch gears
Many of us are feeling tossed about by external circumstances, finding it hard to come back to center. In this chaotic moment, I want to off


How to Help Someone Struggling with Addiction
Addiction is a long journey that can be draining and overwhelming. Watching someone, especially someone close that you care about, battle their addiction is also hard to navigate.
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