Insights

Recently, I found myself in a pretty dark place. As I spiraled into my own darkness, I tried to get a handle on it. I used all my tools. Some worked for a few minutes, and some didn’t work at all. Then, brilliantly, one of my teachers said to me: “just be with it.” Right.…

I once pulled something in my upper back during an overzealous day out on the water with my new stand-up paddleboard. It was a run-of-the-mill kind of injury — nothing serious. The kind of thing that just meant I needed to take it easy for a few days. Yet when it happened, I pretty much…

Have you ever been outside and scared some poor, unsuspecting animal with your movements? Sometimes the animal will run away in terror, and sometimes it will do something else—sometimes it will go into what’s called a freeze response. When an animal freezes, it becomes incredibly still. Its breathing becomes imperceptible. Digestion stops. Heart rate drops.…

What a time we are living through my friends. It’s hard to even know what to say. Yet, I cannot stay silent. What the current administration here in the US is doing is horrific, appalling and infuriating.  What are we meant to do within all of this? Those of us who refute the pure evil that…

About 12 years ago now, I trained as a psychic. (Yes! You can train as a psychic). After my training completed, I opened up a private practice offering people psychic readings. People would come to me with their struggles, problems and issues, and I would look at their energy and share what I saw with…

On the home page of my website it says, in huge letters: This Is An Exceptional Time To Be Alive. Kind of an audacious thing to say, I know. I want to acknowledge that this is also an extremely challenging, sad and scary time to be alive, too.  Then why on earth would I put…

If you’re familiar with astrology, then you know what I mean when I say that I have a lot of virgo in my chart. If you aren’t familiar with astrology, then I’ll just tell you that virgo is one of the 12 signs of the zodiac. It speaks to a kind of energy that likes…

When I moved into my new office (almost 8 months ago at the time of this writing), I noticed that my sessions seemed to improve. They went deeper somehow. At first I just thought it was a coincidence. I thought that perhaps my skills as a healer had improved around the time of the move.…

When I first started Mother Earth Medicine, I was at loss as to how to get clients, so I went to see one of my teachers for guidance. He closed his eyes and started reading my energy. About 5 seconds later, he opened his eyes. “Have you tried talking to people about what you do?”…

Being a healer is the easiest job in the world, but try telling that to my ego. Recently, I have been examining the nature of healing, since that seems to be what my life is about. Initially, it was just about healing myself. Recovering from a bruised and broken childhood, I was a very angry…

Sometimes we take ordinary things for granted. I think there is something in our DNA, or maybe it’s our capitalist society, that makes us believe that if something is rare, then it must be more valuable. I think this belief can cause suffering. I know it definitely causes me to miss many of blessings that…

I want to write about an herb that I am pretty much 100 percent sure you are familiar with. You might even have some growing your yard. If you don’t it’s likely that someone nearby you does. I love profiling plants that seem kind of ordinary to us, because it’s often these very plants that…