The Painful Realities of Loving an Addict.
Loving an addict is hard, but not impossible. With the right support, both you and the addict you love can go on to lead healthy, productive lives.
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The Artist as a Shaman: Keeping the Great Story of the Human Experience Alive.
As long as the effort is applied from a place of compassion and service, the cultivated skills of an artist can be a gateway to a higher understanding.
Use Your Self-Doubt as a Catalyst to Discover Yourself as Presence.
The imbalance is that you think you are your inherited identities, and you’re disconnected from the truth of your being, which is presence.
Reality Check: Still Thirsty, but It Is No Longer a Flaw That Mocks Me.
We have the ability to light a torch for others should they find themselves someday wandering as we were -- tired, thirsty, disillusioned.
Feel Your Connection with Other Sensitive, Intuitive, Creative Souls Living in This Crazy World.
Try a mindfulness app, a spiritual practice... or hikes in the forest or by the ocean. Feel your connection with everything.
Mourning the Loss of the Illusion of Self.
We are all in mourning for the journey we have been on to get ourselves here. In this wonderful and amazing moment in time, on our timelines, in her-story.
Sung Home: Chapter Six. {fiction}
While on these expeditions, if there was any leftover booty, we brought it home to Mama, preparing it for her to show off our newest cooking skills.
My Mother Is Not a Feminist.
What my sisters and I take ownership for, our own happiness, my mother didn’t. Not in the same way. Not in a radical way. She distracted herself.
Sung Home: Chapter Five. {fiction}
One of the older women rose from her chair and strode over to us. Her hair was stringy and greasy like Stinky Boy’s but she looked strong and confident.
Forest Bathing and Finding the Divine.
I close my eyes as I lean against the tree, quieting my mind in silent meditation. I breathe deeply, inhaling the soft, earthy fragrance of the forest.