There’s a particular kind of flatness that hits when something big is changing in your life. Not depression exactly. Not laziness. Just a strange, heavy nothing where your get-up-and-go used to live. I’ve been there. More than once. The first time it scared me. I had things to do, a life to run, a version […]
I’m a shaman, a therapist, and a healer with 25 years of practice. I’ve seen a lot of “miracle” products come and go. So when a friend handed me two tiny patches and told me about light therapy and the body’s own intelligence, I was genuinely intrigued. That’s exactly the kind of medicine I understand. […]
After nearly two weeks of travelling, I’m on my way home. Restored in my soul, happy in my connections and full, in every sense of the word. I saw new cities, had spectacular cultural experiences, and unlike my usual healthy eating discipline, I fully committed to the gelato and pasta plan in Italy and the […]
Travelling is wonderful because it constantly brings home to me what is actually important. On the challenging side there is the hassle factor, the organisation, packing (ugh!) things not going to plan, delays, tech not working, traffic and confusion, and the moments when a foreign language feels like a wall rather than a door. On […]
It was a beautiful hot sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Forrest and Bob were running a fell race and invited me along. In the car on the way I realised I’d forgotten my wallet. Bob had too. We got teased about that, responsible parents that we are. Neither of us could figure […]
You’ve done the work. Maybe years of it. The therapy, courses, healing sessions, and countless spiritual practices. And yet there’s still this feeling, a heaviness, a stuckness, a sense that something is running underneath everything that you just can’t quite reach. That’s not a sign that you’re broken. That’s a sign that what you’re carrying […]
How the body holds what the mind can’t yet say Let me say something that might ruffle a few feathers in the wellness world. Some people still believe that the mind and body are two separate departments! That one runs the thoughts and the other just carries them around. Fix the thinking, the story goes, […]
Chip Conley, the founder of MEA, the Modern Elder Academy, recently shared something from a Jerry Seinfeld interview that I haven’t been able to put down. The idea that the blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with. He traced the word torture back to the Latin torquere, to twist. Not […]
There is a particular kind of sadness that arrives without explanation. I’m not talking about the grief that comes after a loss you can name, or the heaviness of a hard week or a difficult year. This sadness is different. It settles into your chest like it has always lived there, surfacing in quiet moments […]
Shame doesn’t always scream; often, it hides in our procrastination, our people-pleasing, or in the way we treat our bodies. It is a silent, heavy shape-shifter that stays in our cells until we find the courage to look it in the eye. Of all the emotions we carry, shame is the most isolating. And for […]
