choosing something else

On the heels of last week’s vote to triple ICE’s budget (so that it can seize and lock up more people in more cages), cut Medicaid and SNAP (leaving vulnerable people more vulnerable), and cut taxes on billionaires, I found myself ruminating and wanting to...

when i see you being brave

Dear lightbearer … when I see you being brave, stepping outside of known structures because something in you just knows they don’t fit … they don’t work … and maybe they never did … that the ways of being and doing you envision don’t yet fully exist.  You cannot...

you cannot lose your essence

But you can get lost. Ever since I started doing work in the space of well-being and what I now call wholeness, I have debated how overtly to say this … Your new life is going to cost you something. But maybe it isn’t what you would think. If you choose to cross...

sometimes a new beginning feels like an unraveling

Because it is. A confrontation with things at least part of us wishes we could unsee. The moment when the unknown—or the thing we have been in straight up denial about—becomes known. And once we know, we cannot un-know. Maybe it starts with heart palpitations. Or a...