Category: Stories and Musings

The day I learned to stop overriding what I already knew I talk about Human Design a lot. There’s a reason for this. When I discovered the system 15 years ago, I had been searching for answers for a long time. This system met me in a way nothing else ever had. I had been…

And there’s a part of me fighting me on it Life has settled out considerably in recent years, into a quiet desert life that is sometimes hard to trust. I’m living in an awesome house with beautiful views and more space than we know what to do with. Nadia and River are with me, relatively…

Sometimes motherhood means walking your child into the lion’s den… and letting her lead the way “I just want to make sure you’re really sure. Once we bleach it, there’s no going back.” I warned. She lifted her head, grabbed my hand, looked me square in the eyes and said: “Mom, I’m SURE. Please stop asking…

There’s a fine line between toxic positivity and joyous alignment. My barely verbal cancer kid showed me how to walk it. Recently, while buying a lottery ticket, I remembered reading that big jackpot winners often report lower levels of happiness five years out. Meanwhile, I have heard story after story about people who receive a…

One unexpected piece of advice that became a lifeline through my darkest times Eight months into my six-year-old daughter’s second 2.5-year course of chemo and radiation to treat her leukemia, I was burned out beyond description, and I was unraveling. My nights were a storm of restless what ifs. “Am I doing this right? Am…