Beginner's Mind means I'm much more interested in a person who's not afraid to say, "I don't know" than those who "know" they have every facet of life all figured out. My truth is, some questions have multiple answers. And some questions have no Keep Reading
Emerging From Hibernation. Knowing Our Cycles.
If there is one thing I can always count on in my life, it's that every Jan/Feb/March I will, like the very best of bears, go into a deep dark hibernation that not even the memory of the ripest, juiciest summer raspberries can coax me out of. So Keep Reading
Spiritual Growth: Yogananda and The Forest Fire
I just watched Awake: The Life of Yogananda. It was an excellent documentary about the life of Paramhansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi guru who is credited with introducing meditation and Kriya yoga to western society. The man's gaze was thought to Keep Reading
When Fear Becomes The Doorway To Freedom
Fear of (fill in the blank) can feel like the biggest, scariest monster pursuing us, sometimes through multiple lifetimes. Never relenting, we spend 90% of our energy avoiding whatever that monster is for us, attempting to run faster, blend in so it Keep Reading
How to Flourish – A Lesson from Mother Nature
It's like we took a wrong turn somewhere and landed smack in the middle of Heaven, yet the How to Flourish title of this blog post probably won't come as expected. Yes, we meant to be here, my husband and I , at Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Keep Reading
Anxiety As Our Ally
A transformative dream... I once had a dream that changed my life. I never saw myself or my perceptions of the world the same, after it. It seemed to be a message from my own spirit; a lesson on the dishonesty and inaccuracies of fear. It started as Keep Reading
Hidden Room Dreams
I've always had a cherished relationship with my dreams. I've never passed dreams off as the meaningless result of something I ate before I went to bed, or some remnant of a movie watched recently. My dreams to me are pathways into my own soul. To Keep Reading
Spider Medicine
Spider Medicine can be terrifying. When Aaron and I first moved to New Mexico from Minnesota, we pulled up to our new home having no idea what to expect. I had rented it months earlier from intuition alone, not able to see the inside due to massive Keep Reading
How to Manifest in 5 Steps.
1.) Beginner's Mind. I saw a bumper sticker once that said, “Question what you Know”. For so many years I struggled to attain the absolute answer to everything, (the true mark of a Highly Sensitive Person with an overactive, anxiety-ridden Keep Reading
Phantom Computer
I’m doing a lot of writing these days. I’m working on a book about the spiritual emergency I had three years ago in the form of a spontaneous shamanic initiation, and I'm outlining a novel about the interconnection of our waking reality and our dream Keep Reading