Category: Essays
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Shedding self-doubt (is not easy)
This year has been…a lot On the larger global level it has held a lot of tragedy, sometimes in such rapid succession that there was no time to process before the next awful event. There’s a sense of intensity alternating with numbness. On a personal level, there were huge openings for me, and with that…
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The cycle of “seasons,” our personal and collective cycles
Many of you reading are probably familiar already with some of the energetic qualities of the seasons, and turning of the wheel of the year. As we have passed Samhain/Halloween in the northern hemisphere, we move towards the longest nights of the year culminating in the winter solstice on December 21. General wisdom suggests taking…
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Past Lives and Karmic Integration: Remembering who you are and discovering who you can be
The first experience I had with past lives was when I was 8 or 9. I had a series of dreams about the time between lives, and glimmers of past lives I had lived. I was fortunate that at this particular time I had a couple of spiritually inclined adults I could talk to about…
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Ancestral Connection
On the Equinox this year I spent the morning at the Hall of Gems and Minerals at the museum of natural history, which was renovated since the pandemic. In its previous form it was delightfully vintage, if you never visited, picture a multilevel exhibit (as in, sunken living room), plush black carpeting on the floors…
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Stagnation isn’t always a bad thing
Not long after a giving a psychic reading with themes of fruit, decay and seeds, and just a couple hours after sending out the last newsletter, I was walking in Prospect Park following a night of rain. After a long summer drought we had finally gotten some real precipitation a few days in the week. The…
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The power of expressive art
From time to time, and especially when therapy is ending for someone, I’m asked what made me choose therapy as a profession. This can be a pretty long and personal answer if I were to respond completely. But regardless of scope I would have to start with the fact that I chose specifically to become…
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Timeline Hopping
Working with past and future selves, naturally lends itself to considering the impact of your experiences and choices on how we express ourselves today. Something that emerged in the recent reiki group was this tendency to see a negativity bias when we work with past and future ideas of self. Quite often when we think…
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Spirits of plants
When I was in art school, I had a substitute teacher for just one class of the semester, and she lectured on plant and animal communication. I should note that this was an art history class and this topic was in no way related to the curriculum. She introduced me to The Secret Life of Plants and…
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The space between (worlds)
There are so many ways that we refer to this place. Liminal spaces, the Void, life between lives, edge dwelling, shadow work, transitions, shedding and transformation, the Bardo… if a “world” is a place with a concrete location, the space between is somehow beyond location. It is everywhere, it is the connective tissues of our…
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Past and future selves
“The past is a much a mystery as the future.” Season 3 of Umbrella Academy So often we think of healing or growing as resolving the wounds of the past, and maybe the present. The ways we hold on to experiences, are haunted by them, or see indications of their repetition all around us (whether…
Inward Vision 