Many of you are mothers and know it. Other’s of you might be feeling like, dang, is all this stuff here for me? I want to clear things up a little right now: Yes, I am creating this community for mamas. Mothers are a priority. And by mothers I mean: precious new mamas (with intimate […]

A little Mother’s Day Medicine especially for you: My daughter, Felix Kalypso Xochitl, is in her coming-of-age year.  So far, it’s been a year of emotions, connection, passion, creativity, and compassion. During late Summer we will have a 4 day sacred Xilonen / matriz ceremony for her… where she will receive sacred teachings from, and give her commitments​ […]

My biggest question . . . . . .when entering doctoral study in depth psychology was: how do I offer healing without alienating people who, like me, resist being labelled as damaged? You see, at first when I considered the possibility that trauma was at root of my pain and dysfunction I was relieved. It […]

Animus Mundi – the world soul is the concept where European philosophy echoes, meets and traces back to it’s own, and all, indigenous roots. The concept goes back in the western tradition at least as far back as Plato. Carl Jung, whose work has been pretty much exiled from the intellectual institutions of our times, […]

The principle of biodiversity is at the root of what makes permaculture work. Imagine what it would be like to not have to out-source everything in your life, that everything you need is there for you to make it all work. Everything is close together, one thing extending into the next and you can tangibly […]

Maybe you think permaculture is just about gardening. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Taking Lazy-Lady Living permaculture principles and expanding them into the rest of your life is one of the most radical things you can do to  leverage your capacity for living well- creatively, and in connection with your community and the […]

I have been thinking a lot about my calling in life, my work in the world and how it has evolved over my 44 years. I have been asking myself, Why do I work with trauma? Why have I spent so many hours and years wondering and working to understand what happens in trauma. The […]

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about love. About how we are always calculating love’s scoreboard. About how we know we shouldn’t but we can’t help it. It seems so natural for us to get tangled up in the do’s and don’t’s, the right and wrong, the eternal calculation of everything. Agonizing over every […]