So let’s stop describing a positive preferred state of things as ‘high vibration’ and suggesting it’s better than ‘low vibration.’ It’s a common way, in the healing, spiritual, ‘new age’ and ‘conscious’...
My own father passed away almost 8 years ago, at the age of 53, after living with an aggressive form of leukemia for 4 years. His birthday was last month (he would have turned 61) and his death anniversary is in July. My heart still feels tender and I still feel his...
I haven’t always questioned things the way I do now. A memory surfaced the other day. I think I was around 12 years old, and I went to a Catholic public school in northern Canada. I wasn’t Catholic, my parents didn’t take us to church, nor were they practicing...
It rained last week, which was an event in this dry Okanagan climate. It didn’t just rain, but it dumped, it poured and humidity ballooned out, entered my pores and made the air feel like silken water. After the rain, all of the snails came out. Coin-sized and...
We need to talk about a gap in the healing path for creative healing types, and the resulting lack of kindness that arises. As many of you know, I often describe and identify myself as a highly creative person, as ‘spiritual but not religious,’ as a highly...
This is a real and common challenge – how do we write about the compelling parts of our personal history when those tragic, comedic and painful memories are often tied to trauma that is still humming away inside of ourselves? (If you’d like this post as a PDF,...
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