Weeding out in order to make space for what’s ahead.
Category Archives: healing
The journey begins : calling forth my power
Untitled, originally uploaded by Kera Robson I’m occupying my life in new ways, now that he’s gone. It’s like I’ve rediscovered a whole wing of abandoned rooms and hallways; entire areas I declared off-limits for reasons that made sense some time ago. Spaces I’m reclaiming and inhabiting. Skin I’m only just now growing into. I’m seeping out into the edges…
Feeling my way in 2013
Like many of you, I’m beginning this new year with a word. This word is a dristi for me, a centering place for my energy and a reminder of who I’m becoming as I unfurl new aspects of myself. It’s e m b o d y. As in, live into. Know by be-ing. Feel, rather…
Unfurling with Lucie D’Alessandro
What began as a harrowing experience transformed – and elevated – my life. Here are the words Lucie D’Alessandro uses to describe her healing journey, one year after being diagnosed with breast cancer: Awakening. Amazing. Wild. These words are not generally associated with…
Unfurling with Anna Guest-Jelley
I believe in the many shapes and faces and sizes of us. That reclaiming our voice is our most important work. And that we can use it to trumpet the good word that we’re uniquely here to offer. Sometimes an unfurling is catalyzed by a particularly poignant…
What’s Your Why?
Serendipity is not subtle. You’ve heard that “…what you teach you most need to learn“, right? Well, I’m leading a course right now and it just so happens that the same topic I taught in my morning session was served up to me later that day on a call with my fellow participants in Tara…
Unfurling with Kate Courageous
I define courage as: feeling afraid, diving in anyway, and transforming. Kate Courageous is a lesson in unfurling. And that’s why she’s kicking off this interview series. Kate’s video is the first in an ongoing collection of conversations I’ll be having with inspiring…
The Choose Love Project
My story is not unusual. If I gather 20 women in a room, my unscientific estimate is that 10 of them share some version of the same sequence of events, and have struggled to make sense of the aftermath. I hear it echoed again and again in the words of my clients, my friends and…
Anatomy of an unfurling
It begins when it is time, not before. You’ve rested enough to be restored, nourished, prepared. You can throw off the covers now; you’re ready to wake up and start the day. Unfurling is the exquisite process of growing into ourselves. We unfurl again and again, in each of the corners of our lives. We…
Notes from my hammock on a summer afternoon
Summertime has wrapped its warm arms around us (except we unfortunate dwellers of the Pacific Northwest, where it is still mostly cold and grey), and tempted us to downshift into a lower gear. I love this time of year, because I allow myself to slow down, to be “on vacation” even when I’m not, and…
