I have a confession to make that might be obvious to you if you’ve been following my work over the last few years: I am a big proponent of spiritualism. This naturally conflicts with my desire to explain the science behind all of the things I preach on this blog. I want you to know the science because I want you to understand how the machine (your mind, your body, your nervous system, your spirit) works. But every now and again there’s a practice I lean into that hasn’t been adequately measured by science—can’t, actually, be measured, yet, because the tools for such measurement don’t yet exist.
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I once heard grief described as ‘love that has nowhere to go.’
From a somatic psychology perspective, this makes sense. Grief is often experienced as a sort of restless sadness—a longing for something permanently out-of-reach. But what if we gave that love a place to go?
Read MoreThis year the only thing I’ve got on my list for 2020 is to invite more ritual into my life.
I was recently talking to a friend about it and she said, “I feel like you already have a lot of rituals.” She’s not wrong. But I thought about it and replied, “Yeah, but they feel more like habits than rituals. I want to try to invite more intention into them.” Because a repetitive action without intention is just a habit. But when you invite intention into the moment, when you elicit a sense of presence in the act, then it becomes a ceremony.
Read MoreI met Erin a couple years back at a pop-up in West Hollywood. She was offering 15 minute Akashic Reading sessions for Place8Healing. A friend and I had made it to the small crystal shop a few days before it was scheduled to disappear, which felt magical in and of itself. But when we heard about this Akashic Reading offering, my whole body shouted, “YES.” And, because I was still living very much in a lack mindset, that yes was immediately shuttered by a voice that said, “but should you?”
Read MoreSo, I’m the luckiest girl in the world: for my birthday last year, my mom bought me a reading with Donna Somerville, a spiritual channel. It was one of those presents where my immediate response was a big, excited, “ugh, you just get me!”
Read MoreBig trips. They shake things up, shift our perspectives, and push us out of our comfort zones. They are thrilling, eye-opening, even empowering.
But they can also be uncomfortable.
Read MoreA few weeks back my husband and I took a relatively impromptu trip to Big Sur, California.
We were both, independently (and also, by default, together) in a funk. But we both, independently (and together) really love beautiful new places—so we consciously left our funkiness in LA and let the Pacific Coast Highway views fill us up with new life.
Read MoreI'm going to start this post with a story.
I liken it to my self-love 'origin' story, at least in the sense that it may have been the first time I really understood that I was (a) responsible for my own growth and (b) capable of achieving it. At the end of this story, I'm going to offer a tool that you can try at home. With any luck, you will achieve a similar feeling of enlightenment, love, and self-forgiveness that I did.
Read MoreStumbled upon this illustration by Mari Andrew this morning. I think it's important to share because "healing" can be such a vague word, especially when you hear it over and over again. It tends to lose its meaning when you're in the thick of it. If you're open to a fresh perspective, you can reignite your motivation to heal those heavy spaces in your heart.
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