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Safari as a Spiritual Experience: 6 Spiritual Practices to Radically Deepen Your Experience in Nature
After five days on safari in South Africa with my mother on her “bucket list” trip, I felt inspired to write about my practice of interfacing with...
Nature as an Oracle: How to Avoid Being Preyed Upon
For thousands of years, the indigenous people all over the world have used various forms of oracular knowing in order to seek guidance when they’re...
What If We Don’t Fear or Resist Death but Midwife It Instead
As I left the house for my daily hike, I felt intuitively drawn to hike the South Coast Trail near Muir Beach, but my Mind had other ideas. Mind...
How to Be “Needy” without Being Codependent
A deep cultural blind spot has recently come into my awareness, and it’s the kind of blind spot that, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. When I...
The Fierce Grace of My Pit Bull Attack
The sun was rising over the mountains as I hiked up to the Muir Beach Overlook to center myself and ground into Mother Earth before a full day...
Preventable Medical Error Is the #3 Cause of Death in the US. Are We Okay with This?
When the British Medical Journal reported in May of 2016 that preventable medical error is the #3 cause of death in the United States, my mentor...
How Can You Tell If You’re Being Spiritually Guided? 15 Discernment Tools
I’m in Boulder, Colorado right now leading a Sounds True event about trusting the invisible forces of love to guide you in your life. Yesterday, we...
12 Tips to Help Navigate Life’s Curveballs
As I shared with you yesterday, my beloved mother was just diagnosed with a rare and aggressive kind of leukemia. (If you missed it, you can read...
When Life Throws You a Curveball
With my mother’s permission, I want to share with you all the curveball life just threw my family. A few weeks ago, my healthy 71-going-on-55 year...
Holding Space When Someone Is In Pain
I first heard the term “generous listening” almost ten years ago, when I took a workshop for doctors with Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. She told us that...
A More Enlightened Way to Make Difficult Decisions
I used to make decisions in a very cognitive way, the way most of us are taught to make good decisions in our culture. Responsible decision-making...
Holding Paradox as a Portal to Peace
We’ve all seen this famous image. Is it two white faces looking at each other? Or is it a black vase? See how you have to shift your lens to see one...