Dear Humanity, We’re Going to be OK
Dear Humanity, We’re going to be OK. I know. Right now it feels like the world is falling apart. We’ve become numb to tragedy because we’ve seen too many. AI has obliterated our ability to trust what we see and hear. The values we learned growing up are quickly...
A Month Of Mays: May We Make Our Way Back to Wholeness
Well, I’ve neglected this blog for almost a whole year now, and BOY!! A lot has happened in that year, hasn’t it? Mind-boggling changes are coming at us left and right, and we’re bombarded with tragic stories and images from all over the world. I think we are all...
May We Become Aware of the Energy Flow Around Us
Have you ever used reiki or any other forms of energy healing before? If I say to you that you are capable of controling the energy flow around you, even without any training whatsoever, would you believe me? You might answer “no” to the questions above, but I bet...
A Month of Mays: May We Learn from Our Illnesses
When I started writing my last post about anger, I didn’t intend to chronicle my life with eczema. But for me, my anger and eczema are so intertwined that it felt natural to bring it up as a way to explain why embracing your anger is so important. The...
A Month of Mays: May Anger Guide Us To Serenity
You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle. When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice. So, when...
When Being a Victim Creates More Victims
Tell me if you recognize this situation. Someone in your life does something that makes you feel hurt, so you tell that person how you feel. All you want is an apology, but what you get instead is an excuse, maybe even an accusation that it was really your...
Don’t Underestimate Your Survival Instinct
***NOTE*** I believe our survival instinct and what people call “ego” are one and the same. I’m choosing to use the phrase “survival instinct” because people have such a negative connotation of the word “ego”. I didn’t want the repulsion of the word to influence your understanding of my...
Write Down Your Emotions
If you’ve never journaled before, the place to start is writing down every emotion you notice within yourself. Most of us have emotions that we’ve tucked away, too afraid to look at them. It might be because we feel guilty about harboring these emotions. We might believe we don’t...