Category: Essays
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A Constellation of Selves
Developing a “cohesive sense of self” is a goal in many perspectives of therapy and personal development. In this view, the self that is not cohesive is in conflict, opposing parts fighting for primacy in the personality and in relationships. We could refer back to concepts illuminated in the Adult Attachment Interview, that this lack of cohesion…
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Energetic Mediumship
A couple months ago I shared about my experience reconnecting to mediumship.There are many beginnings to this story, one of which is told here, but another beginning starts with completing my second level of Reiki training. I was fortunate that I connected with a great teacher who was willing to personalize the experience, and bring her…
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Connecting to you core self, from a time before memory
Over the many years that I’ve facilitated inner child work, I’ve found that most people (at least initially) find it very difficult to connect with their younger selves in a positive way. Often they carry guilt, shame, annoyance, indifference, or even animosity towards their various child selves. This frequently stands in contrast with intellectual work…
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Heart Opening and Boundaries
Any time energy centers develop blocks, it’s always for a good reason. The arrangement and flow of the energy body is ideally suited to meet one’s environmental conditions and is adaptive in nature, but sometimes we retain certain patterns of movement even as our conditions change. The energetic blueprint of the body works just like…
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Is it intuition, or anxiety?
Many of us are taught not to value our gut instincts, and even to ignore them. The less privilege you hold societally the more likely that you have been told that you can’t trust how you feel. If you’re offended, that’s because you’re too sensitive. If you feel unsafe, you’re being paranoid (or you actually brought…
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Demystifying Spirit Guides
The term spirit guides can provoke a range of reactions. For some it brings pangs of irritation, sounding like new age psychobabble. Or stirs religious trauma, or challenges the idea of free will. Or it has no real meaning at all, a blank space with nothing to attach to it. For me personally the term…
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Intuition and Awareness
Intuition is a concept increasingly present in the conversation about mental health and wellness. In the most concrete sense, it can be described as listening to your gut, which is especially important for people whose identities have been oppressed and impinged upon and those who have experienced trauma. Maybe you could say that intuition is an…
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Falling in Love with a forest
Due to some unexpected events, my wife and I changed our vacation plans and moved up our planned trip to Asheville a month earlier.I’m an almost fanatical beach person, my life heavily arranged in the summer months around facilitating very regular trips to the beach to swim and float. I have more ordinary enjoyments of…
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Channeling and deep space traveling
It was not easy for me to identify myself, even privately, as a medium or channeler. I love mediums, from minor TV stars like Tyler Henry and the Long Island Medium to those I have seen privately. My great grandmother was a physical medium, and has been a huge influence in my spiritual life even…
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Energetic Connections between Parents and Children
When you’re moving through karmic healing work, or ancestral healing, it’s hard not to find yourself in deep exploration of what the connections might be between you and your parents, you and your children, and all the generations of your family lineage. Why do some people get to have harmonious, secure, and loving relationships with…
Inward Vision 