As human beings, we have a fundamental need to belong - to connect and interbe. We also have a need to be fully ourselves - to live and be all that we are. For many of us, these needs often come into conflict. We may feel caught in an either/or - … [Read more]
Repairing rupture with ourselves
In When Food is Your Mother, I talk about how food can serve as a base of security and safety in our lives – especially if our relationships have not felt like places of secure holding or rest. Food can arise as a substitute, a place that attunes … [Read more]
Letting our ideals rest for a while
Last night in our community Soul Circle webinar we explored the vulnerability of resting. My mentor, Dr. Neufeld, said "all growth comes from a state of rest." There's much we can unpack about this statement, for there are many levels of rest. One … [Read more]
Food and fathers + the freer we all become
My dad, peace and blessings be upon him, and I shopping for food at the Westside Market in downtown Cleveland. Today is Father's Day where I live, and it may be a holiday where you live, too. You may be thinking of your father - whether of … [Read more]
‘Don’t ever let go of the thread’
In the Growing Humankindness community, a woman described a 'ping' - that feeling she gets when she feels something light up inside. Her whole being whispers, "Pay attention." Ah, yes! I imagine we all have those moments - those dawnings of … [Read more]
Tending the fire of our inner nobility + Instructions for depression
Many of you know that depression is something that I've carried, and cared for, for most of my life. While the seeds of the depression were already there - I can look back and see the sadness that was arising in middle school, especially after a … [Read more]
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