This 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.

I 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?”

So, 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!”