Transformation in meditation For many years, I thought healing meant understanding. I began psychotherapy in my early twenties and eventually spent years in Jungian analysis. That work changed me profoundly. I learned to recognize the dynamics of my family, understand the ways I had adapted to an unpredictable childhood, and see patterns in myself that had once been invisible to me. I mined my dreams for images of transformation and meaning. I became deeply self-reflective an

My trauma-body awakened in February 1993. Ice poured down as if from the heavens. The season had already been brutally cold. It was...

Imagine for a moment that in the 20th and 21st centuries there has been a critical mass of leaders of nations around the world who are...

There are experiences in life after which we may say, “I have never been quite the same.” Sometimes the change follows an obvious trauma: violence, abuse, the death of someone we love, war, betrayal, abandonment, or another experience that overwhelms our capacity to absorb what has happened. At other times, the loss is quieter. A child learns that a particular gift is unacceptable. Someone repeatedly suppresses an essential part of themselves to remain connected to a family o

My client, Lisa, the executive director of an NGO in Washington, D.C. is lying on the massage table, fully clothed, as I use my stones,...

I am going to be real here. I am grieving, depressed, frustrated, overwhelmed, and feel helpless. I have brain fog and alternate from...

So many of us came into this world with a natural empathy—defined as a capacity to feel and experience within oneself other’s feelings,...

“Your relentless pursuit of healing shows how much you love yourself.” So said a Dona, a healer I worked with for several years in my...

I have a radically expanded view of the meaning and purpose of healing and creativity which speaks to something I call Creative...

Have you done a lot of therapy and personal growth work—perhaps years or even decades—and one day, you realize that what you thought was...

Healing Frequencies About two years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world, demanding an end to violence and war. I did not experience this vision as a prediction. I experienced it as a revelation of something possible in the human heart: a longing for another way of living together. That vision has stayed with me for more than twenty years. So has the question beneath it: What would have to change in us—and between

Do you want to know what soul loss is? Do you feel you are missing a vital part of your being? Have you heard the words “soul retrieval,”...

Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia. The...

I live in Charlottesville, VA. On Saturday, August 12, the date of the white supremacist rally here, I was in South Dakota visiting my...

Is your energy low? Do you feel drab despite the sun shining so brightly outside? Do you feel stuck in your head with old stories and...

As our country has been thrown into division and conflict in the wake of November’s election, I am moved to write about the importance of...

In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...

I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream...

One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women. The researcher...