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Did The Qigong Master Really Materialize Herbs That Cure Cancer From The Palms Of Her Hands? (And Other Unpublished Sacred Medicine Excerpts)
Some of what I thought I witnessed and experienced during ten years of researching my book Sacred Medicine was so out there, “woo,” and mysterious-...
17 Tips for Getting Your Memoir Started
Since 2016, I’ve been teaching memoir writing as a therapeutic process for healing trauma and improving disease outcomes- “Memoir As Medicine,” as...
Healing From Narcissistic Abuse (Ruthless Lessons, Part 3)
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series of “ruthless lessons” in understanding the playbook of how perpetrators of narcissistic abuse operate and how...
Taking Off The Rose Colored Glasses: Ruthless Lessons Part 2
My therapist gave me “ruthless lessons” as part of my treatment, because I was so naïve, lacked street smarts, and couldn’t spot a cunning,...
Taking Off The Rose Colored Glasses
Ruthless Lessons Part 1 Some of us relate to others through the eyes of young, innocent parts with a naïve, idealized, optimistic tendency to see...
The Anatomy of Trust
We Can’t Protect Ourselves Without Understanding Trust Since I’m preparing curriculum for my upcoming class Becoming Unf*ckwithable, I was noodling...
Spirituality Is A Natural Byproduct Of Healing Trauma
When I left the church at 18, and then again when I began pulling back from New Age spirituality once I learned about spiritual bypassing and...
5 Ways To Protect Yourself From Exploitative People
Like many women- and like many children of both genders who grew up in religious upbringings- I was raised to be a good, nice, accommodating,...
Why Assholes May Live Longer
Right now, I’m sitting on the South Aegean Sea in Kos, Greece, where I was invited to help a group of German doctors renew their Hippocratic Oaths...
Are You Or A Loved One Dissociating And You Don’t Realize It
Art by Mira KleinI’m preparing to teach a class called Becoming Unfuckwithable: Finding Your Sacred “No” So Your Yes Is A “Hell Yeah,” and as part...
Have You Experienced Spiritual Heartbreak?
Last month’s Conspirituality podcast shared stories of “spiritual heartbreak.” Listening to those stories left me in tears, not just tears of...
Why Exactly Do We Need Spirituality?
In response to a post about why we would be wise to be wary of spiritual showoffs, a reader, Matthew commented: “I've been asked recently what I do...