We are living in a time when change is upon us, like it or not. There is A LOT to deal with at present- politics, social injustice, pandemic, climate change, war, economic crisis- there are too many breakdowns to actually count right now. In my work with my clients and students, I see change happening […]

In case you hadn’t noticed, we are going through an increasingly challenging era in this emerging cycle of the planet’s evolution. Mother Earth continues to change and evolve as she has done for over 4½ billion years. Yet, largely due to our human species’ influence, catastrophic fires, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other evidence of […]

Someone asked me the other day what they could do to raise their vibration and what even that actually means. We are really made of energy as well as matter, and our “vibration” is all about our life force energy and how high frequency it is. As energy healers and Reiki practitioners, we help people […]

I’m at this funky little coffee shop in downtown Boise and spy this picture on the bulletin board. The bulletin board here is pretty much a Rorschach splatter, reflecting human consciousness: pyramid schemes involving yoga leggings, real estate people, drug and alcohol treatment places, concerts, announcements of malfeasance by the government, solar power, credit repair, […]

What is in your stress management toolkit? Here is my interpretation of the 4 A’s of stress management from the Mayo Clinic. I am not sure I would keep them in this order. But, then again, I do not think the order matters much. The list is more a menu than it is a recipe. […]

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience. -Leo Tolstoy Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we altar a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the […]

It is the ego’s dicey proposition that as artists we should always be “special” and different. The ego likes to be set apart. It likes to look down its nose at the rest of humanity. Such isolation is actually damaging. It is like the reverse of the Midas touch turning everything golden into a problem. […]

From the driver’s seat of a U-Haul van, I watched the scorching black snake of highway crawl away across the desert ahead. Swirling dust devils on either side of the road matched the chaos of thoughts that swarmed in my head. “Where am I going?” “Why am I doing this?” “What will happen when I […]

I only know one way to keep or regain a passion for life. The word is porous. Porous. Permeable. Able to be penetrated by. Capable of being drenched all the way through. Vulnerable. There are as many ways of living as there are humans, but there are two main ways of being that determine how […]

In individual psychology, there’s an experience called by different names, but the more poetic and evocative term is “shadow work.” This is a process during which a person begins to face the denied, disowned, rejected, and suppressed parts of her or himself—and integrate them. The psyche cannot be whole or healthy without engaging in this process […]