Category Archives for On Being Human
The Thread of Life: Remembering my Ancestors’ Ways of Creating the Tapestry
These spring mornings, when I rise and cup my coffee in my barely awake hands, my eyes focus on the sun-lit tree tops outside my window. Small patches of sunlight, filtering in and landing on the highest branches of the trees with such subtlety one can easily miss this. So much more dominant, and easily […]
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Ancestor Wisdom Surfaces as the Veil Thins
Ancestor wisdom surfaces as the veil thins between the material and the spiritual worlds this time of year. During the fall season, as the earth lets go of summer’s energy and moves toward winter’s hibernation, our ancestor spirits and guides are more available to us. But what does all of this really mean? It means […]
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Coming Home to the Pacific Northwest: Land of Ghosts, Spirits, and Re-Wilding
Coming home to the Pacific Northwest, “the land of ghosts, spirits, and re-wilding”, my beloved home for 26 years, has been a long journey, but worth everything it took for me to arrive here. I was reminded of the sacred essence of this place, when I woke this morning to ghosts surrounding my beloved fir, […]
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Whispers of the Sacred Feminine as the World Burns
The Sacred Feminine is whispering to us even as the world burns. The west coast of the U.S.A., where I live, is literally engulfed in wildfire flames. I feel the oppressiveness of the smoke. And it is with fatigue, sadness, anger, grief, and a sense of desolation that I feel like I am burning too. […]
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Remembering the Body’s Wisdom
Remembering our body’s inherent wisdom is a practice that will help us heal from the destructiveness of the diet industry, diet culture, and the tenets of white supremacy and patriarchal standards of beauty. Ancient cultures knew how to listen to and revere the messages of one’s body. They used the earth’s food (pure, natural, whole […]
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Wild Belonging: Healing our Broken World
Wild Belonging, is a portal into healing our broken world. I recently launched my new online course, “Wild Belonging: how to honor the intimate connection between sexuality, compassion, and the cosmos.” The course focuses on the practices of body love, pleasure, sensuality, sacred sexuality, and eroticism while creating a deep connection to the wisdom held […]
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The Tree is Crying: Honoring Grief
The tree is crying. The one at the edge of the woods behind my home. The one that has had its home here, where I live now, long before I came home to this place. I have been listening to its distress over the last several weeks. Its distress is a result of falling down […]
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Coming Home: A Sacred Wild Belonging
Coming Home: Welcomed Retreat or Fostering more Fear? Coming Home to ourselves and our loved ones has become something quite different than “business as usual” in the last couple of weeks in our country. With the COVID-19 pandemic, coming home and staying home, now is filled with complex emotions and lots of uncertainty. For those […]
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Wild Belonging: sex, compassion, and the cosmos
WHAT IS WILD BELONGING? Wild Belonging. The place welling up from deep within our soul when we no longer accept the falsehoods and myths we have been told about our value, our worth, our sexual beauty and power. Wild Belonging is where we find ourselves when we integrate our sexuality, our practice of compassion and […]
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Body Love: A Practice of Deep Reverence
Body Love. A practice of deep reverence for the container that holds our spirit, heart, and emotions. In addition, to holding our spirit, heart, and emotions, our bodies have the capacity to express our sexual desire and our sexuality in ways unique to each of us. Body love is an essential ingredient in the cultivation […]
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