How to really love yourself

by | Feb 12, 2016 | love medicine

How to really love yourself: Tie an anchor to your ankle. Wade out. Keep wading. Let the metal scrape rock bottom. Keep going. Learn to breathe underwater. Tell your secrets. The ones that ache the most. Spread them out like cracked open seeds in springtime. Plant...

You Are Love

by | Feb 6, 2016 | love medicine

“There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.” – Rumi We came here to love. We came here to experience the myriad of ways humans can love. We want to know love. We want to taste love. We want to hear love. We want to know every possible...

The Lunar New Year

by | Feb 4, 2016 | love medicine

The newest moon does not care how your year began. The newest moon isn’t concerned with how your plans have gone. The newest moon could care less how far you’ve gotten on your taxes. The newest moons wants your desires unspoken. The newest moon wants to know what you...

Love In Cold Places

by | Jan 29, 2016 | creativity, earth medicine, love medicine

There is a theme to love stories and myths that come from the cold regions of the world. Life is hard in these places. Surviving requires a closeness to the elements, a deep respect of the natural world. Each person must concern themselves on a daily basis with very...

Winter Solstice Poem

by | Dec 20, 2015 | love medicine

The Winter Solstice is a time to welcome the returning light. It’s my understanding and experience that to truly do this, we must honor the dark. It is easy, fashionable, and likable to honor the light these days. It seems like more fun. It seems like by doing...