Category: Essays
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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…
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Demystifying Energy Practice
Foundational practices tend to be where we start when learning anything. And yet when we return to them after more experience, we often find they are more complex than they initially seemed.Some of the questions people usually ask when I’m teaching Reiki or leading a group might be “are there different types of energy? Is…
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Permission to change your mind, again
I was feeling an intense call to recalibrate after Thanksgiving weekend. Emotionally it caught me off-guard, the holiday was like a minefield of unhappy memories. As I recovered in the following days something deep had shifted and worked through me, and I was starting to have the sense that big changes were on the horizon.…
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Winter Dreaming…
Dreaming for me is an act of communion, a relationship. I allow my dreams to hold their own space. I try not to analyze my dreams, but to participate in them. To let my dream selves show me what I need to know. I take some time in the morning to transfer to my conscious…
Inward Vision 