being sold to us earlier and earlier Halloween is the new Thanksgiving Literally the day after Halloween stores started putting Christmas decorations out here in Portland. Actually, it may have been earlier in some places. It used to be when I was growing up that Thanksgiving was an entirely separate holiday to Christmas. Then, for […]

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 […]

you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves . . . ~ Mary Oliver Most people have heard of the right brain / left brain division. The right brain is the creative, non-linear, emotional side and the left brain is the analytical, linear, rational side (more or less). […]

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 don’t care who you are, you have experienced, and carry the effects of, trauma. Trauma is ubiquitous. Being born into modern times itself is a trauma. The world has changed so much in the last 150 years, our evolutionary nature just can’t keep up. We were born to move at the pace of walking […]