Soul Dreams Need Retreat

by | Aug 8, 2015 | earth medicine, healing, intuition

This will be the third year in a row I will go into the Boundary Waters solo. I’ve done a lot of solo journeys like this, but in 2011 I started to become very intentional about these journeys. I was initiated into a lineage that required that I take a journey to...

Please-Like-Me Dis-ease

by | Jul 7, 2015 | earth medicine, healing, love medicine

I’ve suffered from the “please like me” dis-ease, in varying degrees of severity, for as long as I can remember. I’ve been bending backwards when I want to fold in. I’ve been saying yes when I desperately needed to say no. I’ve been carrying someone else’s weight...

The Wild One

by | May 27, 2015 | earth medicine, intuition

Only if you are very lucky will you be born with chaos close. Only if the stars row up single file to pour their magic into you on the day you are born, only if your first breath synchs perfectly with some greater rhythm, will you have a taste of this madness. It’s...

Manifestation As Sacred Play

by | Apr 29, 2015 | creativity, earth medicine

I believe we are here to dance. I believe we are made of equal parts sky and earth, essence and matter. We have bones and skin and eyes that are made of fine, sinewy things. Things that grow and shrink and grow again. We are as real as mud. We are as thick and dense...

Walking With Fear

by | Apr 14, 2015 | earth medicine, love medicine

I have found that whenever I am about to take a big, bold leap into the unknown, it seems to be a prerequisite to cower in the corner of my bedroom first. My bed is a magnet. I pull the covers over my head and fall into a world where I never, ever have to leave the...