This week I’d like to share an excerpt from my book, The Secret Life of Babies, it’s a section on something I call Emergent Culture. After you’re done reading you can watch this week’s episode of The Sahius where I tell a story about one an emergent culture teaching I received while sleeping by a fire. Enjoy. There Read more about Moving Towards Emergent Culture[…]
Some of you know that Jews believe the Messiah hasn’t come yet, which creates all sorts of different meanings for who Jesus was/is and basically eliminates the term, “second coming” from the Jewish lexicon. I, although Jewish, think of the Messiah more in personal terms, as the amazing miracle of our own showing up here that Read more about Birth- A Second Coming[…]
Healing is the business of tracking soul. Before we are conceived and as soon as we’re in our tiny, emerging bodies, we want to be known. It is in these places where the big events of coming in, growing, being born, and living our existence stick with us. If soul, for one reason or another, Read more about Leaning Into The Light[…]
Scarcity. How would you know you’re about to lose something unless you had already lost it? Why would anyone have a fear of losing something unless it had already happened? Or had already happened to someone before? Indigenous doesn’t necessarily mean Native North American, it means to be “from a place”. We all were once Read more about How To Be Where You’re From[…]
Have you ever let your vegetables go to seed? I typically try to not let it happen. I don’t like admitting I’ve neglected my opportunity to harvest the “food” in time and depending on your taste, the gangly and dry look of seeding plants can appear rather ugly. Kale’s been growing in my garden all winter and spring Read more about What I Learned In Winnipeg[…]
How early did you start perceiving your world? Was it when you were a toddler? After you were born? Recently, a colleague lent me his copy of Louis Cozolino, Professor of Psychology at Peperdine University’s book, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. In it, Cozolino shares relevant neuroscience research (largely guided Read more about A Future To Belong To[…]
Healing is a long journey, a life-long one in fact. Years ago I used to be certain that one day I’d be “done”. Today I feel otherwise. Today, I revere my challenges as gifts, as beckoning calls from my soul back to me saying, “come here, come closer, know me, I’m here to guide you.” As Read more about Sweetness[…]
When talking about addictions, we mostly think of someone other than ourselves. Take David, for example, who’s story I’ll share with you in a second. He seems like an everyday guy, but begins to find himself coveting pain meds. David, as you’ll read, may not be that different than us. We all have un-grieved sadness, Read more about Addiction: A Love Story[…]
Remember the last time you stood by the ocean, mesmerized by the waves? It’s a wordless place, isn’t it? Sometimes I’ve wondered how our thoughts get so quiet when the sea turns before us. This week I got to thinking about how the ocean brings us to the waters within ourselves, the aquatic nature we Read more about The Beauty of The Tide[…]
Have you ever had the experience of doing something you didn’t really want to do? Or of saying the words to yourself, “Well I guess I’ll do it because he or she wants me to”? Or, “Because I’m a nice person, I’ll do it just this once”? I have. And you know what happens? I Read more about Finding Power- The Natural Way[…]