My friends can tell you I had a hard time at parties. I’d rather be in the kitchen, massaging kale and blessing it with holy water, than being out in the crowd mingling with strangers.

I had a hard time connecting with people personally, and yet when I had a defined role like teaching, or laying my hands on someone in a healing session, there was no problem.

There was a gigantic split between my professional world and my personal life.

When you are working with resistance and your usual methods of coping aren’t working anymore this is your indicator to pay attention. Take space. Take time. Old patterns coming undone may overwhelm you with questions. With this comes a new path and new skills are required.

Whatever the current situation is it is growing you and chances are the answers you seek are within you.

The answers you need will arise when you allow yourself time to sit in the questions themselves.

Insights reveal, not because you demand them to, but as you work your process.

When the world feels crazy, and everyone is caught up in the drama of what’s wrong, the ability to make a clear, practical and direct shift is a huge asset.

The fierce feminine has always been a symbol of how to be radically discerning about what belongs and what doesn’t. The fierce aspect of the feminine archetype is a protector of life.

She is the aspect of ourselves that instructs us to know what is dying and to know what is growing. She is the aspect of the self that knows what to nurture and what to release without attachment or sentimentality.

Ultimately, there is no finish line or report card at the end of life. Goals and how we get there are too personal to measure against the standards of others.

And yet this is where I see many empaths hold themselves back from fully implementing their soul-led vision.

For example:

Who you are is highly unique. What you do doesn’t look like what other people are doing. So you might wonder, “Is it good enough?, am I good enough to follow through on this?!”

Creativity is a sacred process. It is part of the indwelling light of recognition that we have something to say, something to share, something to show. Something that has emerged out of the deepest core of our being.

For most women who are healers building the business is only as successful as they feel confident inside themselves to hold the vision and take a stand for the value of the work they are meant to do.

Winter is a time of change.

A change that moves us underground.

This other-world of magic and dream, creativity and mystery, prayer and reverence, always felt so utterly private to me. As if it didn’t belong out in the open. ⁠

What has become so evident in my work with healers and artists is an urgent need to support this very fragile juncture between the seen and unseen realms where the power of imagination swells. Nurturing creative innocence is deeply healing and actively bringing our healing gifts into the light requires compassionate encouragement.⁠

When life is changing course let it touch you, let it teach you, let it bring you the blessings of events that you never could’ve planned for or predicted.

Leaning into the vulnerability of what is new for us takes practice in allowing for new forms of self-expression, intimacy and relationship to take shape in body and mind.

It is through our body that we can learn to hold the paradox for change. To hone our inner listening skills and gain the sensitivity for inner knowing that allows for the necessary release for what no longer serves the journey ahead.

Allowing for surrender is what true guidance feels like.