I write a lot about bad spiritual teachers. Part of why I can tell the good ones from the bad ones is because I was blessed to have a really wonderful teacher, who swept me under her wing right after I quit my hospital job at 37 years old. Last year for Mother’s...
If you missed Part 1 of this series 10 Things I Still Believe About Health After Debunking Everything I Now Think Is Nonsense, please start there. This is a continuation of what’s left after getting indoctrinated into (and then deconstructing) both the world of...
I’ve been writing a lot lately about corruption in the spirituality, wellness, and energy healing spaces, something I figured out about a decade ago, when I quietly shifted my health care and healing work towards more ethical, grounded, and non-bypassing...
I was on a first date on January 6, 2020, walking on Stinson Beach with a lovely artist who I wound up going on five dates with before he decided he wasn’t into me. We were less than an hour into our date, marveling with some sadness at an array of dead blue...
My partner Jeff and I are a bit behind the cultural times. While everyone else was binging Ted Lasso during the pandemic, we were busy on the front lines of trying to support a world in crisis — Jeff on the front lines of the mental health epidemic at Harvard, and...
For many of us on a healing journey or a spiritual path, the pursuit of peace, love, and transcendence has been both a refuge and a compass. Practices like meditation, prayer, yoga, reading spiritual books, going to spiritual retreats, or chanting mantras or...
In intimate relationships, agreements are sacred. They are not just logistical understandings; they are expressions of mutual respect, shared values, and equal power. When two people come to an agreement, especially about something emotionally charged or...
My partner Dr. Jeffrey Rediger and I attended two No Kings protests in Sebastapol and Santa Rosa. We were even captured in a photo on the front page of our local paper, The Press Democrat! My resisting bitch face with my sign “This Is My Resisting...