The Misuse of EmpathyI have been talking about empathy and its connection to trauma on my podcast recently. It is a connection that took me a long time to...
A Letter from NowhereThe body is speaking, but I cannot hear the message aside from an ache in the pelvis and a tightness in the wings of the shoulders and a...
Getting Radicle (Botanical Wordplay)I keep thinking it's time to end my sabbatical. I almost open my books, and then I force myself to wait an hour, and I keep realizing...
The Caged Bird SingsMy heart is in a vice most days. My shoulders creep toward my ears. I long for the peace of the running brook and the breeze on my face,...
When Things Have to BreakOn the most recent full moon, I did a ritual of breaking. The universe had shown me, clearly, that a phase of my life was over. I had...
Water MagickFirst published as an episode on the Plant Witch Podcast During the Dakota Access pipeline protests of 2016, I learned the Lakota phrase...
UnMooredI have been working the energies of this new year to palpate the opening in the wall, the door into the next upward spiraling of my own...
Facing The SquirmAfter I recorded my most recent podcast episode, Fox Woman Dreaming, I started to feel a tightening in my stomach. Something wasn't...
Confronting Malevolent ForcesMalevolent; adj having or showing a wish to do evil to others. Evil; adj profoundly immoral and wicked I have struggled with the idea of...
Going to GroundLast week on my podcast, I talked about the path of descent. I live in the United States, a culture obsessed with ascent. With striving....