This morning, I cried in my breakfast. A real scrunchy, stink-face, slobber-lip cry. Not because I was sad. But because I was happy. (Ugh, I know, but hear me out.) I was sitting with my husband in front of our blazing morning fire in our sweet desert home, he was reading aloud a spiritual text and I just started blubbering into my breakfast bowl. Because who woulda thought we’d get this far together? Not me. Not him. We met…
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some damn alone time
I’m in the Bay Area alone for a week and I actually felt a little bad/weird about taking so much space for me time. And then I caught myself. I had scheduled a sacred ceremony on Monday with a priestess (more on that another time!) and then nada for the rest of the week, aside from my usual schedule with clients and…
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you’re so not done (+ free astro-coaching class tonight)
[special free class tonight, details below] I get a little twisty with the whole “new year new you” onslaught. While I appreciate the idea and respect goal-setting, I’m not so keen on the POOF DONE GONE SEE YAAAA 2017 mentality. Do we really gotta set last year on fire in order to move forward? Short answer: Nerp. Longer answer: If you’ve…
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i sat with a kid who thought he was gonna die (and here’s what i learned about life, presence, and acceptance)
On Monday, driving a remote desert highway from my mom’s house in Vegas to Joshua Tree, my husband and I witnessed an accident. A car had just flipped off the road and a young man had flown out and landed in the dirt. We were some of the first to stop. There was a man frantically waving cars down screaming,…
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you have one choice (you thought it was more complicated, right?)
What if it all really boils down to one choice? Just one. You can choose to hold on, manage, grip, CONTROL in order to get somewhere/something you think you need to be whole, complete, and perfect… or you can choose to SURRENDER. Release the oars. Quit paddling upstream. Let go of what you think you need or where you think you…
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learn to love better because you must
I had a sassy email all ready to send you. About families and all the craziness we exchange…especially during the holidays. And then I got word that a beloved member of my hi-desert community passed suddenly.There’s a lot of pain and confusion right now. I’m swollen with the reminder that there’s no way to ever know what’s in store for…
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your presence is the greatest present
I come from the school of #BuyNothingDay. Of Reverend Billy and the Shopacolypse (and now the SHIPocalypse with all the product shipping). Of giving that doesn’t include buying. So here are a few gifts for you because by buying nothing today on Black Friday, I am giving everything. And because I get to choose how I honor your journey. I listen in to…
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self-care is e’rywhere
think about self-care a lot. Because of my super-sensitivity and the chronic pain I’ve danced with for over 20 years, it’s a big ol’ part of my life. I’ve embraced, resisted, ignored, played dumb, gone overboard, found peace, fallen flat on my face in the dirt, risen like a damn phoenix in my self-care. ALL OF IT. After all that,…
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