Over the last several months I’ve beheld a gorgeous juvenile red tailed hawk. I encountered her so regularly I imagined there was some...

The veil of barely existing accepts her fate, in bliss and anguish.

This is the most powerful question to cut through the inner critic: “What do I need?” Like any bully, something sets the inner critic...

This was a final paper for Analytical (Jungian) Psychology, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute....

This was a final paper for Human Growth & Development, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It...

This was a final paper for Counseling and Psychotherapeutic Theories & Techniques, a course in my masters in counseling program at...

This was a final paper for Introduction to the Theories of the Depth Tradition, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica...

"I can't feel you," he says with despair in his eyes. I stare back at him blankly. Strangely, I resist the urge to smirk. When we first...

As I prepare for my final supervision session before earning my certification as a hypnotherapist (woot woot!) it felt right to revisit...

I’m on the top of a red rock mesa. Stunted junipers, flowering cliff rose and bright red penstemon, the desert sun. I can’t remember the...

The rain had moved through, leaving thick clumping clouds, darkened and milky, and whipped with the peach of the setting sun. A vast sky...

I wrote out this trance for a group I'm a part of that is exploring the metamorphosis phase of the journey of soul initiation. The point...

I'm walking in the greenbelt on this beautiful sunny spring day. The breeze whips crab apple, Texas barberry, and mountain laurel nectars...

Poetry is like the dream, always a step ahead of us. We fall in love with a poem well before we know what it means. Years later, after...

Of all the specimens I collected, plastered to my index cards with packing tape, writing the latin and common names, the family, it was...

I'm sitting at the kitchen table again, checking my email, when a mourning dove lands on the railing of the balcony. Now, I know the...

Right around this time a year ago I got slammed by my first full on somatic trauma flashback. I actually pretty much brought it on...

My god I don't want to write today. I did everything to avoid it...went for a walk, did a workout, baked a dutch baby, convinced my cat...

I'm sitting at my kitchen table. It is pretty dark in the condo since I've got no lights on and the sun has just begun its walk from the...

Yesterday was a rough day for me. The night before I got swallowed by a trauma vortex I had been telling myself I was healed from. Then I...