“What am I supposed to do?” These words are so common among spiritual seekers that there is not a week that goes by that I don’t hear them. These words, in this context, come from a deep yearning and a desire to be on the right path. People want to know what god or the…
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Pervasive Powerlessness. Ubiquitous Unworthiness.
There is no one type of person who walks through my door. Men and women. Twenty-somethings and the longtime retired. Hedge fund managers and doctors and lawyers and farmers and artists and the not-yet- or currently unemployed. Spiritual seekers and those who don’t know or understand spirituality but who want help and can’t find it…
Read moreMy words on Elephant Journal: My mom was bipolar. Two weeks before she died, I learned how to love her.
What can we learn from mental illness? Our own or that of one we love? The lessons are as varied as they are personal. I learned so much, but nothing greater than that which I learned at the very end. Here is my story — published in Elephant Journal. Thank you, Mom, for teaching me.
Read moreYou were the bad guy.
We all want to be “highly evolved souls.” It’s empowering to recall our past lives as High Priestesses or Monks or Medicine Men or Shamans. Those of us who have had these lives, or believe that we must have had these lives, might feel comfortable in our good standing as past healers and teachers and benevolent…
Read moreSo much to learn in the not knowing
For so many people I know, this Spring is a time of change. In a big way. It’s like the Universe gathered us all together on a massive oriental rug, asked us to mingle, and then, just when we were getting comfortable, yanked that rug right out from under us, sending us all flying. Not…
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