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Love Is Like Snorkeling in Gili Meno
As the sun is rising on the small Indonesian reef island of Gili Meno, off the coast of Lombok, I wade over the shallow coral until it is...
Time for a Major Love Offensive!
I’m in Bali leading a writing retreat right now, so it’s been strange to navigate this polarizing election from another country, where I am...
Friends, I Need Your Help Broadcasting An “Idea worth Spreading”
As fellow lovers of truth, science, and consciousness, I need your help, my friends. One of the healers I interviewed and studied for my Sacred...
A Love Letter to Humanity during Uncertain Times
On the day after a heartbreaking debate, in the midst of many global crises, when many of us find ourselves feeling fury, helplessness, and...
The Difference Between Rescuing & Service
This post is hard for me to write because it shines light on one of the core patterns I’ve spent years in therapy and years in prayer trying to...
Unconditional Love, Conditional Access
I’m in love with this Alanis Morrissette song "You Owe Me Nothing in Return." In fact, I have a girl crush on Alanis in general, especially after I...
The Orlando Shootings: A Call to Consciousness
This morning, I posted this on Facebook and then Mind Body Green picked it up when it started to go viral. I wanted to share it with you here,...
Relationships on the Spiritual Path—Part 3: The Plane of Love
For most of my life, love fit into boxes. There was “family love,” the kind of love you have for your mother or father or child. There was “romantic...
Relationships on the Spiritual Path—Part 2: Expectations, Intimacy, Freedom & Trust
In Part 1 of Relationships on the Spiritual Path, we explored issues of comfort, soul growth and judgment—and how the tender parts of us need to...
Relationships on the Spiritual Path—Part 1: Comfort, Soul Growth & Judgment
One of the most common email topics people who read my blog send my way is some variation of the question “I’m on the spiritual path, and...
How to Perform a “Despacho” Ceremony
Photo Credit: Hannah Rae Porst When I stayed in a Q’eros village at 16,000 feet in the Andes last year, I was blessed to participate in several...
The Space Between Stories
This week, I experienced a trauma that collapsed my story of self, yet a new story has not yet emerged. Charles Eisenstein calls this "the space...