“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 2-decades-long journey to recover from chronic physical pain and the trauma in my life. If I remember correctly, I had lamented to her that I wasn’t sure I could love myself. Her words were revelatory. I still hold onto them. In truth, when I look back on my life, I see how love motivated me on so many levels. From childhood, I retained a felt

Yep, this planet is can be a hard, hard place to live. Sometimes when I am feeling weighed down by personal challenges and/or by the many horrible things happening around the world, with my face pointed upward as if to heaven, I say, “You try living down here!” I am speaking to all those beings in other dimensions and domains outside this physical space-time continuum whom I believe are “out there” assisting us—though such assistance may seem at times nonexistent or ineffectu

I want to enter into the conversation about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade with sensitivity to both “sides” and also share my grief. Please bear with me no matter where you fall on this issue. This discussion is important to the work of peacemaking and healing. I want to present both the serious harm that has been done and propose a different way of approaching conception, pregnancy and tending to the needs of both women and the unborn and living children rooted in a compass