2025 brought to me a very intense late-life reintegration and spiritual upleveling as I entered my mid-60s. Sometimes it has felt pretty harrowing with... .....the arising of intense emotions and both positive and difficult memories from the past ....reexperiencing layers of grief from what has not yet been accomplished or reached (life partnership), past trauma, losses of loved ones and opportunities unexplored ...reevaluating shedding of an old trauma-based personal, profes

My trauma-body awakened in February 1993. Ice poured down as if from the heavens. The season had already been brutally cold. It was February 1993. My husband’s and my small, cinderblock rental cottage stood on a 3000-acre horse farm in Albemarle County, 15 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia, at least a mile from any major road. By the time the storm passed 2 days later, we could not open the front door. There was an unnerving stillness in the air and the sky remaine

I am a carrier of a mesa, a beautiful, multicolored medicine bundle containing various crystals and stones used for creating a vibrational frequency of healing, harmony, balance, and abundance for myself and others. The tradition of this portable altar goes back to the ancient Inca and can be found today among the medicine people of the Andes, in particular the Q’ero, their descendants. In the past 20 years, many paqos, or medicine people, have been called by the spirits to o

Shamanic energy healing is an effective way to heal symptoms of trauma from this and other lifetimes.

(This blog is part of an ongoing series in which I share intimate details about my life in order to inspire and educate my readers about trauma, healing and spirituality and what it has to do with helping this troubled and beautiful world heal into peace. Please excuse any repetition; I must write each piece assuming my reader may not have read the others.) When your natural, authentic personality and talents are not seen and nourished by those who are your parents or caregiv

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, thoughts and even bodily sensations. This gift could have extended beyond our immediate family or homeplace, whether it looked like the standard nuclear setup or not. This meant that we might have been able to feel the suffering and joys of our neighbors, animals and even the Earth. Children like this are often very open and even seem to pos

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the violence brought against peaceful protestors in the US in 2020, African Americans and...

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 being interviewed had done a study of a large group of women who had experienced depression and more mental and emotional imbalances following the birth of their child. These were women who otherwise had been happy to become mothers, loved their babies, and prior to their pregnancy and birth, had never had any serious problems of a psychological

In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to...