{Video} What do you need?

{Video} What do you need?

The other day my friend Laurie came over to my house. On an impulse, we turned the phone’s video on and recorded a short conversation about how we steady ourselves during difficult times. Laurie and I talk about how important it is to get aligned and connected...

Creativity as Medicine

As I write this, fires are raging just north of here in the North Bay and Wine Country. But even before I awoke yesterday to this latest news of disaster, I’d been talking to my close friends about how to stay steady when the world feels so wobbly. I don’t...

{Video} Celebrating in the Dark

One of the places in life where it can seem like there’s no room for celebration is when people are grieving, lost, ill, or lonely. But I define “celebration” as choosing to be present to what is going on in our lives and finding a way to connect....

Suffering Succotash

I want to remind you to take care of yourself. Exquisite care. Heroic self-care. It is always important, but especially when you might be feeling grief, loss, sadness, fear or physical pain. It’s been a tough couple weeks over here in my world and it has...

D’ya need a few pinpricks of light? Here!

It’s been a really tough week with a lot of incredibly difficult and sad things happening in the world. Today my friend Celenia Delsol posted this note on my Facebook wall for me, along with a link to a beautiful and uplifting video: “With all the...

Wrestling with Demons

I want to share a short free-write that was my response to the prompt, “wrestle,” given in a writing group I’m in. I’ll explain why I’m sending this to you after you read it … In the middle of the night I wrestle the proverbial...