I am generally the kind of woman that takes action. “Think it, plan it, do it,” is how I operate once I decide on a course of action. But in this political climate, I’ve experienced a kind of indecisiveness I…
It has been less than a week since we discovered how truly off course this country is. And life is continuing. The world has not ended. Darkness and light continue their sworded dance. In spite of fears and a panicked…
A sweet friend and I held an intimate grief and healing circle last night. When I announced it, I received so many responses acknowledging my gift to community, as if I were doing something noble. The truth is, I did…
It is a hard day to be a citizen of the US. I wonder if this is what it feels like to be the family member of a mass shooter. To love the country that is the root of so…
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…
Back then, I was barely able to vote on propositions or people I didn’t know. Hell, I barely knew myself. I was certainly not yet anyone I could lean on. There was a long history behind me that took years…
I thought that speaking truth,
that unforbidding the forbidden would
ease the hard pull of craving…
…
She whispers in my ear
You’re never going to be loved
La Bruja Maldita habla
…
I mean NEVER
out of control in public and
I have a part that disdains people who do.
…
I am not gushing out the blood of my abuse.
The compound fractures of my childhood
aligned,
…
I am looking from behind my eyes,
my physicality a veil I watch through clearly.
The skin of my eyes a barricade
…
I graduated from Naropa University in 2009 with a Master’s in Somatic Counseling Psychology. It was surprising to me that, even in a Somatic Psychotherapy program, little information was given at that time on the ethical use of touch in…