No one owns medicine. Medicine owns us. It has rules of engagement – like the female body is an original instruction. Plants are relatives not resources. Plants cannot be catalogued (as the anthropologist has so often done). They are adaptive. Their effect changes with us and we change with them, as we connect as relatives. […]

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 […]

I devote so much of my life to understanding how to restore myself and my connection to my cultures – since I was first sat down by my elders and given my obligations (and lifetime puzzles lol). I hold them in my core. always. Obligations are not to be shared, but lived. One of my elders […]

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 […]

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ~ Linda Hogan We all have ancestors — we are all descendants. When your grandmother dies, she becomes your ancestor. Each of us could/should […]

I was just explaining to my husband why I don’t want a black car. Especially not one with tinted windows. You see, we are looking for a used car right now as poor jeep-y is on her last legs. He keeps finding perfectly good vehicles and I keep veto-ing them. We finally sat down and […]

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 […]

There is a Palace that opens only to tears – The Zohar I want to get really honest about grief, about what I call The Weeping. I have been in the closet about it for many years, only ever being half honest about how important the release of grief is. I was reminded once and […]