Thriving Not Surviving

What limitations have you placed on your own life because of your past experiences, beliefs, values or preferences? Because of wounds that won’t allow for you to fully imagine all the possibilities for something greater? If I asked what you want most in life, could you articulate a clear response? I find many humans often [...]

Liberation

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” ~ Aung San Suu Kyi My earliest childhood memories are rooted in state violence. Much of my life since has involved some measure of [...]

Cannabis vs. Presence

I’ve been sitting with a burning question. A client asked me this week how I felt about cannabis usage. This individual visited to me to discuss his trauma and generative ways to work through and with it. My first reaction was that I am absolutely against it’s prohibition--since it is deeply rooted in racism—that people [...]

Dreamfast With Me

“Let the past die.” As if they are not aware that trauma is like recurring movie. Played over and over. In every cell of our bodies. Deeply enmeshed in our ciphers. For trauma survivors, the past never dies. Trauma is etched into the fabric of our beings. It enters and makes a home in the deepest [...]