- Aug 3
- 4 min
Why Hypnosis?
As I prepare for my final supervision session before earning my certification as a hypnotherapist (woot woot!) it felt right to revisit...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
Life Doesn't Owe You Anything
I’m on the top of a red rock mesa. Stunted junipers, flowering cliff rose and bright red penstemon, the desert sun. I can’t remember the...
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- Apr 30
- 10 min
Dissolution
The rain had moved through, leaving thick clumping clouds, darkened and milky, and whipped with the peach of the setting sun. A vast sky...
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- Feb 28
- 1 min
Metamorphosis Bliss
I wrote out this trance for a group I'm a part of that is exploring the metamorphosis phase of the journey of soul initiation. The point...
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- Feb 27
- 3 min
Talking Dirty with Earth
I'm walking in the greenbelt on this beautiful sunny spring day. The breeze whips crab apple, Texas barberry, and mountain laurel nectars...
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- Feb 26
- 3 min
The Song of the Soul
Poetry is like the dream, always a step ahead of us. We fall in love with a poem well before we know what it means. Years later, after...
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- Feb 25
- 1 min
Love letter to the peas, the Fabulous fabacaea
Of all the specimens I collected, plastered to my index cards with packing tape, writing the latin and common names, the family, it was...
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- Feb 24
- 5 min
May the birds of your attention truly land
I'm sitting at the kitchen table again, checking my email, when a mourning dove lands on the railing of the balcony. Now, I know the...
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- Feb 23
- 4 min
Believing your life matters
Right around this time a year ago I got slammed by my first full on somatic trauma flashback. I actually pretty much brought it on...
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- Feb 22
- 2 min
Casting yet another fly
My god I don't want to write today. I did everything to avoid it...went for a walk, did a workout, baked a dutch baby, convinced my cat...
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- Feb 21
- 5 min
Enough for now
I'm sitting at my kitchen table. It is pretty dark in the condo since I've got no lights on and the sun has just begun its walk from the...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Hypnotic Happy Hour
Yesterday was a rough day for me. The night before I got swallowed by a trauma vortex I had been telling myself I was healed from. Then I...
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- Feb 19
- 3 min
Love, Me
Sweet sweet girl. Strong one, earnest one, hurting one. Your tears are nectar to me, your tenderness a precious gift, your anxiety and...
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- Feb 17
- 3 min
Symbols: the power of the psychophysical
Months after failing miserably to reclaim my projection in the Heart Warrior Council, I felt ready to try again. I needed to. I had to...
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- Feb 16
- 5 min
BDSM beyond the bedroom
I've been exploring BDSM ever since my kinkiness came out of the shadow and laid me flat. I watched movies, read, experimented with...
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- Feb 15
- 9 min
Persona, more formally
I recently applied to the masters in counseling psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was hard to imagine applying...
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- Feb 14
- 6 min
Removing the mask of persona
I had a bit of renown by senior year of college at Tufts University. Having organized with Environmental Consciousness Outreach the three...
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- Feb 13
- 5 min
Taking the Red Pill & Living Ceremonially
I set out toward the river, to peer down from the look out point to where the salmon jump up the tiered stream. The salmon weren't...
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- Feb 12
- 1 min
Entranced by Interbeing & Belonging
Today I offer a hypnotic trance that invites you into a sense of shared sentience with Earth. It is resourcing, relaxing, and...
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- Feb 11
- 4 min
Dancing as spiritual practice & titrating flow (aka having good boundaries with God)
Today I had the immense pleasure of being danced, in much the same way I described beholding yesterday. I attended a fundraiser for Honk!...
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