When the Spirit Starves
There was a time I was severely hypoglycemic, and the pattern went like this. I would think, I’m hungry. Then that “I’m hungry” would get repetitive, more insistent, screaming so loud that it was all I could hear, until it…
Category Spirit & Sacred Living
Become The Ocean Or Be Seasick
We all know what it is like to be in an environment we do not want to be in. A job that feels unaligned. A relationship that has been off for longer than we have admitted. A house we cannot…
You Can’t Drink the Coffee Until It Is Brewed
The line at the grocery store snakes back past the cereal. It is 2021, the doors are open again, and there is one cashier where there used to be four. The man ahead of me taps his card against the…
When the Teacher Falls: A Love Letter
I began this writing as an open treatise…which quickly turned into something much more personal. I offer this to my Meditating with the Body Community and to my extended Sangha of all those harmed by Reggie Ray/Dharma Ocean. It was…
Spirituality & Whole Person Healing
Everyone has an opinion or a truth about God, spirituality, and the essence of how the whole thing works. I’m not any different in that respect…with one exception…I know that my belief system is just a belief system. It’s not…
Your Problems Don’t Belong To You, They Are Ours
I often say that it is not our issues that are really our biggest difficulty; our biggest difficulty is the issues we have with our issues. We often cannot even get to addressing the issue at hand because we are…
Even A Box of Darkness Can Be A Gift
When Mary Oliver writes, “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness,” she is not suggesting that we not rage against the darkness, that we do not own our suffering, that we stand by and passively say,…