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...

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...

About 2 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...

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...