Dear ones - Have you heard the expression: “the veil is thin”? And do you have an experience of what that means? This bonus episode is in honor of what the Celtic culture would call Samhain (though plenty of cultures around the world have other celebrations at this time of year honoring the ancestors and marking this moment of the thinning veil). In this episode, you’ll hear me muse on: what I think a “thin veil” means; where this particular season fits into the larger seasonal cycles and...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Hello, dear ones - “My life has changed so much for the better and I keep trying to tell everyone I know about you… but I don’t really know how to describe it or say what you do… so I just tend up telling them they have to go see my witchy healer medicine person, Kate.” Many of you who’ve worked with me have said things like this over the years. Some of you reading this might remember hosting me in your house for a little get-together with those friends; so I could lead them through a guided...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Dear ones - Have you experienced the grief of wondering whether your life, whether YOU, have any purpose? Only to try thing after thing while seeking your purpose; ultimately ending up more uncertain and confused? And burned out now on top of it? You’re not alone. This episode is in response to a listener who wrote to me after listening to my Episode 49 on Wellness World Pitfalls if we’re not including shadow work. She was drawing some connection between what she heard in my episode and an...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Dear ones - It's the beginning of a new month so here's our October overview email - complete with a tarot card for our little collective for the month. Tarot card for October: Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and Barbara Moore I always encourage folks who get my readings to look at the card themselves first and notice what comes up in their bodies. What emotions or sensations are stirred? What thoughts and stories seem to pop to mind? What do you find yourself repelled by or drawn...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Dear ones - This email is coming to you only a day after I arrived back in Scotland - a return journey which in many ways began almost immediately after I left last year. Some places take a hold of you, get in under your skin and into your bones more deeply than you would ever have imagined. This is that place for me. At least for now. snacking on wild blackberries while foraging along the Fife Coastal Path - photo by Jack Benedetto My body is needing plenty of rest after all the travel and...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear ones - Did you see the email or my video on YouTube and social media from last week, talking about how safety isn’t the same as sanctuary and protection isn’t the same as refuge? I’m curious - what do you think of my thoughts there? And what does sanctuary mean to you? What does it feel like in your body? Do you know it when you feel it? One of my favorite parts of our last cohort of Sanctuary was exploring what the word meant to us over the course of the six months we gathered. It...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Happy Autumn Equinox! A time to wrap up the season of abundance and harvest our final goodness before entering into the darker season of the year. Our modern cultures often view things like progress as being very linear. One of the side effects of this is swinging between extremes like a pendulum - in the case of cycles of burnout, we swing between being full on and being shut down… with very little space in between. But our long-ago ancestors understood cycles very differently, in part...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Dear ones - The world can feel like a big, overwhelming, and dangerous place. For children and for adults. Because, in many ways, it is. Even beyond obvious dangers like violence and accidents; on some level, I think we’re always aware we’re like a fire - life consuming us, as we consume it, until our finite time is up. Every breath containing the grief and gratitude of loving and losing. Shadow work - the subject of my last podcast episode and a key component of a client’s session yesterday...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Dear ones - This email is a check-in, a new podcast episode announcement, as well as an invitation to join the upcoming Sanctuary cohort. The Check-In So… how we doing? My body has been manifesting symptoms of intense stress for much of this year and, in spite of all the tools I have, it’s only been getting worse. Last month, I stopped sleeping and my digestion shut down for a while. Thanks to acupuncture and even more shifts in my daily patterns, I seem to be back on track, but even now,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read