Right now, mindfulness practices of every kind are essential to your day.

To cope with the collective COVID-19 anxiety, practice coming back to yourself.

A lot of what I write about embodied healing may be overwhelming if you are struggling to manage daily life.

One of the participants of the Life Transformation Intensive has created weekly excerpts from the journal. I hope some part of her story inspires you to believe in the possibilities for your own healing.

I like to remind myself and others that healing begins by the simple act of being willing to listen within for the answers.

Accepting ourselves with all our current limitations, and simply being as we are is challenging for most people.

Many people with health struggles try and be strong for their kids, for their spouses, or for whoever they perceive needs them.

You can do everything right and still have flare-ups and feel terrible.

I love kind soulful friends who encourage me to be compassionate with myself. I’m blessed to have a few such friends my life. One of them reminded me this morning that it’s quite okay to be a work in progress.

Nobody wishes or chooses to be chronically ill. By any reasonable standard, it’s a rough ride.

Everyone I know with chronic struggles has a history of living beyond they’re personal limits.

Healing is a skill. It requires a framework to understand the process and a set of tools to navigate along the passage.

I spent the last few hours revisiting my life from twenty years ago in Ithaca, NY and find myself wondering how much I’ve changed in twenty years and how much I’m the same.

If you’ve been on the healing path for a while, you will undoubtedly have encountered the apparent dichotomy of evolving verses accepting. How do you know when to question and heal your ways verses accepting yourself as you are?

As a highly sensitive person, I’ve been in countless situations where I wished I were less permeable and more resilient.

When my daughter was 18 months I looked in the mirror one morning and said to myself, “You need help”.

Everybody has bad days when their personal triggers come up. Healthy living doesn’t mean never falling apart.

How we think about what's happening in our minds or bodies has a huge impact on how we heal.

Life load is a huge factor in every long-term health issue. We become acclimatized to the load we are carrying and often lose sight of how taxing it is on our mind/body.

Trauma that we experienced in childhood can continue to consume part of our vital life energy today.