Category: Essays
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Breathwork is Trancework is…
One of my primary goals in scaling back the number of hours I “work” has been to create the space necessary to read and learn more, time to reflect, and time for embodied practice. Lately there has been a lot of synchronicity in what I’ve been reading and seeing, mirrored by my embodied experiences. The…
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Navigating Uncharted Waters
Around the end of this past summer, the 18 month mark of the pandemic in the US, there was a lot of framing in news articles and social media posts of how we’re approaching the “two year mark”… incredibly we are actually still not quite at that point yet but it feels like way more…
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Rest is a Portal
There’s no aspect of a cycle that doesn’t require a time of apparent dormancy. And yet that dormancy is often an illusion; it’s no so much that there is no movement or change as it is an unseen process. Eurocentric or “western” culture doesn’t value the unseen process very highly. The capitalistic culture doesn’t even…
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Boundaries, Intuition and a ritual for Protection
The ability to set clear boundaries, to have boundaries, rightly holds an important place in moving towards a greater sense of wellness and emotional safety in relationships. Somewhat less popular a topic but also important, is the ability to respect the boundaries of others. I have seen many a helpful adage about how to set…
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What is dreaming, why dream?
Although in some ways the content of this particular essay has been percolating for the last couple months, I have really struggled to put it into words and sentences and paragraphs that lead to a Point. You’ll have to forgive me for the somewhat non-linear nature of what I’d like to share. And after all, how…
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Reclaiming self-worth, integrating your inner child(ren)
Trigger warning: discussion of abuse culture, and brief reference to the documentary Allan vs Farrow Culturally we are reckoning with abuse culture in a way that has never been so sustained and is moving across demographics that were not previously engaged with anti-violence activism. The push for accountability is needed and long overdue, and yet…
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Healing Perfectionism
Perfectionism is often viewed as a form of anxiety. Some make connections to procrastination (if I can’t do it perfectly I shouldn’t even bother), missing deadlines (I can’t turn this in until I’m sure that it’s just right), difficulty apologizing and being accountable (I must convince you I didn’t actually make a mistake), and restrictive behaviors…
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The heart and expression
Working with energy is an ancient practice. Virtually every culture and every geographic area of the world has (at least historically) some way of working with energy or “laying on hands.” There is a great depth of indigenous wisdom in how we can raise, move, release, and channel energy for improved health and in my…
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What does it mean to be an “artist?”
I made a personal decision earlier in December 2020 to take an indefinite hiatus from social media in order to free up more time, mental energy, and emotional space for practices that nourish me. There’s a lot of amazing creative work that happens on SM, so this isn’t a dig at the medium or anyone’s…
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A case for Anger
It’s a commonly applied concept in both psychological theory and popular culture that anger is a “secondary emotion” and one that can be destructive for both the person experiencing the feeling and whomever it is directed towards. The ask is usually to “get underneath” the anger. I have always believed that experiencing anger was an…
Inward Vision 