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“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from ...

We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...

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In the Buddhist cosmology, Pretas, or the “Hungry Ghosts,” refers to a psychic domain in which the human mind is tormented by desires that could never, ever be satiated. In the mythology, the hungry ...

To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...

This script is intended for a facilitator to guide participants in a Yoga Nidra meditation practice. Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a technique used to produce states of healing and ...

April 27th is Freedom Day in South Africa. On this day, in 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first-ever president democratically elected by all the people of our beautiful, troubled, “rainbow nation.” ...

We have all heard of the commonly discussed trauma responses fight or flight. Freeze is yet another reaction we experience when our brain tells us we are in danger. But fawn doesn’t get as much ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

What is a narcissistic discard? Simply put, when you’ve served your purpose for a certain person, you’re discarded by them. That’s it. You had little interest to this person as a living, breathing ...

Many years ago, I was in a group of women for relationships advice. One leader in the group said, “I hate desperate people.” She was sharing this thought regarding someone she had received a message ...