I’ve been checking in with spiritual teachers and healers of different stripes to see what hopeful insight I can glean in these weird times we’re living in. I’ve been sitting with all the same cultural anxieties and personal griefs that…
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Initiations
You have been through some things, I know, and you have such a story to tell. You’ve survived intense, life-changing things and come through to the other side. You’ve reinvented yourself through career, relationship, parenthood, death and loss, or spiritual transformation. You…
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Burning the Notebook
One of my teachers once shared a story about spending time in Peru with elders. He took copious notes about everything, pages and pages of quotes, descriptions and things to remember. One day, his mentor picked up his notebook and…
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