January 2024

Hiding from our feelings does not help us. Learning to name and care for your emotions and knowing it is ok to feel them (all of them) is liberating. The more you do this the more you reach the vastness and the power in you. You learn there is room for all of your emotions and […]

How is your body? There is so much grief, anger, outrage, sorrow, vengeance and pain in the world and your body sometimes holds that tension. Have you checked on that sweet vessel of yours? How is your stomach doing given what you are seeing and hearing is so sickening, so gut wrenching, so impossible to

I hated the word god for a while. The minute somebody said it, I would cringe. I did not want to hear about this god thing anymore. I didn’t want the religion of old telling me about the punishing, white, male god sitting on a cloud pulling all the strings from above. The word still

Have you ever said, “oh I am just talking to myself” only to hear someone reply “as long as you don’t answer yourself….”? It can be a funny little moment, but it implies that having a back-and-forth dialogue with yourself means you’re crazy. Well then…I am crazy, and I hope you are too in this sense.

Talking back to God can be a very healing practice.  Many people haven’t felt like they could talk back to God even in the midst of tremendous loss. When people experience tragedy, they might ask “why god, why?” Sometimes they wonder if they are being punished or what they did to deserve this. But, they don’t feel

When you hear the command love your neighbor as yourself, what happens? Is the emphasis on the love of others more than the “as yourself” part?  Many of us love our neighbor better than ourselves, and we treat ourselves in ways we would never treat another. On top of that, this kind of behavior is