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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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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How are you?
When I went, I went cold turkey. Five years ago I grew so jaded by the riptides of negativity and algorithmic platters of content that I quit social media altogether. I closed all my accounts and was happy about it. Then came coronavirus when we all found ourselves in a sort of socio-cultural aspic—dampened, suspended,…
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