The short answer is yes The long answer is not if they have a chance to repattern their early experiences. In my last book, The Secret Life of Babies, I shared some pretty strong scientific material about the subject. What I mean by strong is hard to ignore. Scientists in Sweden (and since then, the world over) researched how people Read more about Will You Die Like You Were Born?[…]
Up here in the north Pacific, we sit under smoke-filled skies. Those of you in the Southern Hemisphere are no stranger to summer wildfires. It’s uncanny when the world, writ large, moves in and makes herself known– we are truly at her mercy. Last night, while noticing how challenging it was to breathe, I remembered a conversation Read more about shallow breathing starts early[…]
In 2010 I experienced a major life rupture: My relationship at the time, and the pregnancy we were excitedly growing, both ended in the space of one month. With these radical and nearly simultaneous traumas, I found myself retreating to the shores of Kauai, spending long hours watching the trees and whole days quietly paddling Read more about The Sovereign Seam[…]
Your weekend partying with friends is over. The workshop, where you’ve connected deeply to the work and to other people who care about the same things you do, has ended. Your family, who you love dearly, and miss, because you rarely get to visit with, has left. Your lover, who because of other commitments, has Read more about While The World Waits[…]
A mother without love is a mother who went without love. It’s not natural to close one’s heart to loving. Rather, it’s a response to having been hurt. When would she have to have been hurt? When she was young? A baby? Or could it have been recent, like when she was giving birth? Even Read more about A Mother Without Love[…]
Have you ever found yourself enjoying an article, having a good think, or maybe listening to a friend tell an important story, and out of nowhere, your attention falls off? Perhaps your vision blurs or you start thinking about something completely unrelated? Yes, you could say it can happen to anyone, even the Buddhists would agree—the Read more about Stop Interrupting[…]
A bunch of years ago I travelled and served the International Council Of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. While with them, I’d do things like drive them to their ceremonies in a van, knock on hotel room doors for wake-up calls, and deliver meals to rooms. Occasionally I’d even give healing sessions when they were wanted. The Read more about Calling Your Signature[…]
The other day I was watching folks walking in the public market. They were all focused on some particular task; gathering plums for lunch, picking just the right corn for dinner, and parsing through heaps of greens for their daily salads. Each one of them was full of volition, had grown unique preferences over their Read more about Even If You Don’t Believe[…]
Even though you can’t see them, they’re there—your ancestors. At least some of mine are on my wall. I’m lucky to have their photos, and as far as the eye can see, they are orthodox Jews from Romania, Belarus, Siberia, and Austro-Hungary. But what about beyond? Many people were never told the names of their great grandparents, have Read more about The Tree Of Life[…]
Conception is a pollination rather than a fertilization. For this reason, conception is far more than an egg meeting sperm. Conception is another field, like the Family Field, which is set up long before conception in the quality of the parents’ relationship, their health, their Family Fields, and how they feel about welcoming their conceptus Read more about Union Behind The Holy Veil[…]