Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, The New York Times Modern Love column featured my story—Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself. It will appear in print this Sunday. There have been many times in my life when I have been presented with wild and unimaginable opportunities—sometimes in the form of challenges, sometimes in the form of…
Read morePivot: Roots
This is my story. On November 14, 2024, I joined five other storytellers at the main-stage event of Pivot—a local storytelling event here in Spokane, WA—to share it, intimately, with an audience of 250 people. There is a different theme every event, and this time, we all were exploring the concept of “Roots.” This was…
Read moreChanging Shoes
After almost exactly ten years, I am returning to work full-time outside of my practice as a transpersonal therapist and energy healer. My practice remains open on weekends.
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It’s the season of ghosty sideshows. Set spirits free instead.
This time of year it becomes commonplace to be in the ghost business. Libraries and museums and parks and entrepreneurs promote their haunted tours and activities to capitalize on Halloween curiosity and thrill. It’s ok. Most people just don’t understand. Spirits who remain on the Earth plane after death are lost, stuck in the partial…
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Fear not, Pumpkin.
I mentored an Afghan newcomer last year. One fall day when we met, she was visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said, “There are monsters everywhere! My neighbors have dead people on their grass and they scream whenever someone walks by. It is so scary!” I had never looked at American Halloween through…
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