“I’m stuck in a weird place….like there’s a wall blocking me,” he uttered as he stared blankly at me. His eyes and throat seemed especially devoid of moisture… like the very marrow had been sucked out of his bones. Even though Lance (a pseudonym) had been very successful as a…

You’ve heard the term “shadow” work… which basically reflects all that you don’t know about yourself. What’s hidden in the dark, or “shadows” of your psychic experience. What you can’t see. Yet it’s not some strange, dark, dank place where demons hang out. Shadow is just what hasn’t been exposed…

If you’re reading anything online today, it’s hard to imagine a paragraph that doesn’t contain a reference to AI or ChatGPT in all its forms. Yesterday, after spending some time exploring the emerging wave of AI-driven apps and reading the wide range of tweets and articles opining on the upending…

It’s ridiculous to suggest that this is an easy time, or that we should be grateful to witness the greatest human catastrophe in all of history, unfolding right before us. While we used to lament that we had 5 minutes until the catastrophic end of the world as we knew…

The way we tend to ourselves and create patterns of care or disdain is far more foundational than we imagine for becoming the next more evolved and impactful version of ourselves. And while typical ‘self care’ regimens are important, just as (if not more) critical is the way we acknowledge…

She was dying of disconnection and thirst. Literally. She was one of the first things I noticed upon arriving at my new house in southwest Colorado. Why had they let her die of thirst? Don’t people see her majesty? I wondered. She’d been standing alone for decades, no doubt. Hard…

Humbled By Love I’ve been humbled by love so many ways and times in the past few years that I’m beginning to believe that it’s only and all about love. I ask myself what else could matter, really? I’ve discovered, the hard way, that love is essentially the ability to…

What is Shadow? There’s so much talk about trauma healing these days, I often mistakenly assume that everyone knows what I mean when I say ‘shadow.’ And in truth, what I call ‘shadow’ might not even be equated with trauma healing in the traditional sense. You know, the ‘bad’ stuff. But if shadow…

Because I listen, nature beckons. This tree spoke to me, as I gazed at her curiously, wondering why her brown furled oak leaves clung to her branches, even as the snow fell. “I kept my leaves because they are pretty,” she said. Yes they are, I replied. …