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The Misuse of Empathy

I 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 Nowhere

The 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 Sings

My 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 Break

On 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 Magick

First published as an episode on the Plant Witch Podcast During the Dakota Access pipeline protests of 2016, I learned the Lakota phrase...

UnMoored

I 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 Squirm

After I recorded my most recent podcast episode, Fox Woman Dreaming, I started to feel a tightening in my stomach. Something wasn't...

Confronting Malevolent Forces

Malevolent; 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 Ground

Last week on my podcast, I talked about the path of descent. I live in the United States, a culture obsessed with ascent. With striving....