There is a strange season that almost everyone experiences, but very few people understand. It is the place between who you were and who you are becoming. The old life doesn’t fit anymore. Your interests begin changing. Relationships shift. The career that once felt meaningful begins to feel heavy. Even your spiritual practices may no…
“Sometimes the answers we’re searching for didn’t begin in this lifetime.” There are moments in life when we know something deeper is trying to get our attention. Perhaps you’ve repeated the same relationship pattern over and over again. Maybe you’ve struggled with an unexplainable fear your entire life, or you’ve always felt connected to a…
The Things We Don’t Know We Have in Common Today I was having coffee with a friend. We found ourselves talking about something I hadn’t expected. How difficult it is to move from spending a lifetime caring for everyone else… …into a season where we begin caring for ourselves. Not because we’re becoming selfish. Because…
Why Every Soul Needs a Favorite Chair For years, I believed rest had to be earned. If the dishes were done. If the emails were answered. If the work was finished. If everyone else was taken care of. Then… maybe… I’d sit down. The funny thing about life is that the work is never really…
Why We Must Return to the Forest One Last Time For months, I’ve been writing about the forest. The place where we become lost. The place where trauma changes us. The place on the healing journey where we discover gifts we never would have chosen to learn. The forest has been my teacher for a…
What Ancient Initiation Stories Can Teach Us About Trauma, Gifts, and Healing A long time ago, human beings lived much more tribally. People lived in a close community with one another. Children grew up surrounded by adults who all played different roles within the village. Everyone mattered. Everyone contributed. Everyone was needed somehow. As children…
There comes a moment on every spiritual journey when we stop asking, “How do I become someone else?” And we begin asking a much quieter question. How do I become myself again? For years, I thought healing was about fixing the parts of me that were broken. I thought awakening meant becoming wiser, stronger, more…
Have you ever reached the end of the day feeling completely exhausted, even though you didn’t really accomplish very much? You weren’t digging ditches. You weren’t climbing mountains. You may not have even left the house. Yet somehow you’re drained. I don’t think it’s because we do too much. I think it’s because we try…