Take a Break
Time to take a break. Not every week needs to be filled with words. This week I don't have many words to share. I've been writing once a week since July. It's now January, and I've stuck to my commitment with great honor and integrity. Writing and posting once a week...
How I Feel Upon Waking
Do you ever notice how you feel when you first decide to wake up? Before your eyes are even open and you’ve lifted yourself out of bed do you feel anything or does it take a moment? What’s present for you as you roll from the comfort of your bed and into your morning...
Deep Listening
Today I wake and pause. Somethings here. It’s drawing my ear in towards my center. It’s making light, almost imperceptible whispers. It’s been here. When it arrived I’m not sure. But it rests gently at the edges of my chest between my shoulders in the realm of my...
All the Feels of a Year Well Lived
Happy New Year! We are officially finished with 2020. It was a particularly intense year for everyone. And, even if the pandemic had never occurred, it was an otherwise intense year for me. Immense changes. Buckets of grief. Deep love. Several weeks ago I asked myself...
6 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Christmas
Many moons ago (approximately three years ago) I wrote this piece you’re about to read. It was in that winter several Christmas’ ago that I decided it was time I knew the truth about the holiday. I’d known for some time that it wasn’t at all what I thought it was but...
The New Adventure of a Private Life
In my 30 years of living, privacy has never been an overt concern for me. In fact, I’ve often driven myself in the opposite direction in my attempts at making connections and building relationships (hello, relational insecurity). But in the last six months after...
Writing Against My Natural Rhythm
It’s hard for me to write today. *Story of my life.* But, remarkably, it’s not for the same reasons that it has been over the last several months. For once - for once! - it’s because I’ve got an abundance of excitement energy coursing through my veins, seeping into my...
Discovery of Your Endless Changes
As I sit here, I wonder how he’s changed. I wonder how his life and energy and friends and path are so unimaginably different than how he was with me. My memories serve up delicious bites of energy that feel good and comfortable. Many things I’m sure are the same. And...
The Tragedy of Thanksgiving
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. Today I want to briefly inform you or remind you of the history from which this holiday arises. While in elementary school we are told this is a holiday for celebrating our cooperation with the native Americans, in reality, cooperation was...
Underwater
This is where I use a cliche phrase to describe a hard experience that calls for all my learned and developed resources. This cliche phrase points to this place Here - where rhythm and flow and all sense of normalcy has vanished. Where there’s swirling and stirring...
Is it okay?
Is it okay to be vulnerable? Is it okay to admit that I don’t feel well today and that I haven’t felt well for a while? Is it okay to feel frustrated, irritated, and short-tempered? Is it okay to want to smash niceties and long-winded, unasked for answers? Is it okay...
The Pandemic, Expectations, and Happiness
It’s election week. By the time this posts, I don’t know what will be the fate of America for the next four years. Maybe we won’t even know by the weekend. Nothing seems right to write about now. I feel suspended in time, as though I’m holding my breath. I know I’m...
In a Body of Gratitude with You
It’s been so grey and dreary for the last many days. Cold weather has crept in bringing sweaters out from the depths of the closet and new scented candles arise lit on my table. It’s colder than usual here in Texas. It’s not often I’m boasting layers before November. ...
Home in This In-Between
Today I get to look out my window onto an open field spotted with hay bails and old cars and trucks. Beyond the field, there is a line of houses and trees and one bright red and yellow playground. In the evenings, cows line the fence close to our home. When I sit on...
Waking Up to a Body of Emotion
Last night I sat on my bed cross-legged listening to Lee Harris’ recent audio titled, “You Are Needed and Now is Your Time.” In this channeled work, his guides, the Z’s, said something that struck me with great clarity. They said that one part of the awakening process...
Soul’s Grand Love for the Human Who’s Moving
I’m moving. In a few short days, the men will come who take the boxes and (somehow) get the funny shaped furniture through tiny doorways. I’ve spent the last two weeks picking up each and every item in my home. I've laid my hands on every pencil, hairband, post-it...
A Deeply Nourishing Practice for Autumn
A few days after the equinox (September 22, 2020), I grabbed my journal and my oracle deck and sat on my patio in sunny, delicious weather. I settled in for a heart-storming session. I felt called to do this because of an intention I set in the fall of 2018. At that...
Writing and the Soul’s Requirements
Writing and I go back a long way. I’ve had a desire to write since high school, but the most that came out of me was some paltry journal entries and an emotionally dense poem from time to time. I followed my love for reading and writing into college by studying...
In All Their Organic Wisdom
On the soul journey, there are days that don’t seem so bright. The sheen goes out. A dullness takes over and depth accompanies it. Richness in a different kind of grandeur. There’s a density to it all. The corners of the mouth lie flat or slightly turn down. The...
Falling Into a New Practice
At the beginning of August, I received a tap-tap on my shoulder. A nudge. A few thoughts trickled in about the changing light and the impending presence of fall. Dun dun duuunn. I began to notice each evening grow mildly darker. I reflected on my experience of fall...
She Dances the Magic of the Land
She dances along the river’s edge, smiling freely and scattering plumes of fairy dust as she spins. Her grin imbues the air with fortitude. And each step sends ripples of love through the earth’s crust. Her movement blesses all of life. Her body sings in rhythm and...
Let’s Breathe Together
Have you taken a few deep breaths today? Here’s your gentle reminder to do so. In this moment now, as you read these words breathe in through your nose and out through your nose. One slow inhale to the count of four. One slow exhale to the count of four. Do a few of...
Pay No Mind, Summer
It’s 3:30 PM as the sun bears down on another hot day in Texas. It’s the hottest time of the day at the hottest time of the year. I can comfortably say that we’ve crossed over into late August. And for weeks now, I’ve noticed the sun setting earlier and earlier each...
Lost on the Cosmic Sea
The balance point keeps shifting. Just when I’m beginning to feel an equilibrium, a steady-state, a mode of being I can live with for a while, it all begins to sway really far left and then really far right. I scramble about to make sense of the energies. I see...
My One True Partner
We’ve come a long way. We’ve made tough decisions. We’ve had hard conversations. We’ve felt difficult feelings and acknowledged poor behaviors and unhealthy patterns of relating. We’ve excavated and dug and cleared and cleaned and released. We’ve done a lot of hard...
Convergence
Now is the time when whole worlds converge, one right on top of the other. They smoosh and smash into one another. The outer layers look like they’re about to disintegrate so it all can become one. And yet it doesn’t. They just sit there as close together as they can...
The Emergence of Sexual Innocence
Sex and sexuality throughout the last many centuries, if not for a couple of millennia, have become excessively entrenched in dark energy. Religions sequestered these innate, natural human expressions to one place only - the marriage bed. And it was for only a man and...
A Fresh Look at Each New Day
I’m deeply in touch with the seasons in a way I have never been before in this life. I feel the current of the passing summer day drawing me in, out, and along as we progress. I see the sun moving in the sky, slowly setting a hair earlier each night. But if I weren’t...
Soul Says No to Social Media in Favor of Sovereignty
I *almost* forgot about my follow-up post for my big decision to take a social media hiatus. It’s already been one month, which feels absolutely crazy to me. Crazy for multiple reasons. First of all, time is an interesting beast. Isn’t it? June was at once the fastest...
When Soul Meets Body
It’s hard for me to show up to the page today. I’ve got so much going on internally that I’d rather sit with myself than express here. But I know the therapeutic power and nature of writing. It’s good for the heart and soul. What’s occurring within me is a deep...