I really enjoyed being interviewed by Dr. Bach Ho last week, who studied alongside me years ago in the Organic Intelligence® clinical training. It was fun to share on my healing journey through that lens in particular that we share, and to help translate some of it into language for others, particularly around making parallels to chronic illness. Enjoy the full interview here:

Even after immersing myself in somatic integration work and mind-body-spirit alignment for several years, I still sometimes suffer imposter syndrome, and wonder whether the slow, patient, steady space I am holding is really moving the needle for people. Like a gardener diligently showing up to water the soil, pull weeds and fence the garden bed from hungry critters, there's only so much I can do: provide proper conditions, nourish what is organizing, encourage the natural intelligence of the seedlings to take root, soften, and begin to open. But the natural intelligence itself is the thing doing it. I am just the gardener. In a culture that elevates doing, my deepening stance of being, and doing that emerges from being (as opposed to doing untethered from being), sometimes still triggers doubt. Am I missing something? (read: Am I not enough?) The irony is that the more I sink my roots into being, the easier doing becomes. It flows, it reaches further. It lands. It calls situations into my life that resonate with the heart and soul work I am here for. It is humbling and empowering both at once. And so, as I go into four podcast interviews this week (not preparing, just arriving, as me), I hold the torch for you too, to sink your roots deeper, and let your branches reach higher, not straining, but ecstatically unfolding. 🦋🦋🦋 INVITATION into the Body & Soul Sanctuary: Now is an optimum time to join us, as we are in a renewal phase of learning in the Sanctuary. It is FREE to inquire and to experience a discovery call with me, so please reach out in the Village or directly here with any inquiries about this. It's my intention to further your clarity of your heroine's journey, whether or not we end up working together long term. Below is a short video of Sheryl reflecting on how this work has really changed her experience. In particular she shares about the ATTUNEMENT of this work, which is unique from a one-sized-fits-all model of healing, growth and transformation, and how it changes the way we can relate to others through more ease within ourselves.

The eve of our Spring Equinox ritual at the Body & Soul Sanctuary brought a fresh visitation of rain. I stood at my altar in my office, having cleared it completely for a full reset, lit incense, and cracked the window to hear and smell the wet air. Stepping beyond mere professional space-holding—while doing ritual in private—and into welcoming others into my sacred altar space has not been a small thing. I have often felt like the Easter hare who is still half-bird, laying rainbow eggs while learning to scavenge, lope, and nibble grass on the ground. Integrating the part of me that is fully unfettered with the part that carries the weight of suffering has been a continuous journey. Sometimes it’s hard to know if it has been fruitful. Are the rainbow eggs doing anything other than sitting around, merely decorative? Shedding skins of conditioning, questioning habits, beliefs, and ways of operating, and waking up to the unconscious ways culture promotes mis-truths, has been an uncovering both external and internal—and has heightened my desire to ensure that what I do here has substance, not mere decoration. As I placed items on my altar anew last week, each thing vibrated, each thing lived in my hands. And when I planted each seed from our Village ritual and covered them with flower water, whole portals were activated. I actually believe that. Not just symbolically. I think the reason it’s so hard to believe in magic these days is not because it’s not real, but because so much has become decorative. So much has become about reputation, performance, perception. The false allure covers over the true gold, but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. I am feeling grief as I write this. Magic isn’t feeling happy or successful every day. It’s knowing that everything is held in a field of Grace, and that it’s possible to traverse the full spectrum of experience and never be outside of Original Blessing. Once we know that, it’s possible to work with life—not to rescue it or be rescued by it, but to be present with it—while holding the memory of flight.

Reparenting myself through the agony of degenerative autoimmune disease was a powerful initiation that freed me in incredible ways, but while it was happening, it felt like HELL. It was SO uncomfortable, confusing, disorienting, and unpredictable. And also, SOOO lonely. Because nobody I knew knew anything about what was going on. Getting to share messages of hope and practical guidance for folks struggling with similar challenges is very special for me. I'm very grateful for the opportunity, and I hope it brings some ease to such an intense experience. Here is the FULL EPISODE which aired yesterday.