Armed with only a GED — You might be asking why someone would do such a thing Well, the answer to that is long and complicated. First, I didn’t quit my job, I along with every other employee in my company had been laid off. But mass layoffs in my industry were nothing new. Truth be told, I had survived nine such layoffs in my 20+ year…

The Lonely Path: navigating uncertainty and change requires enormous resilience — The decision to go to college late in life is one that upends your whole life, identity, and existence, particularly if you are starting from scratch with only a High School Equivalency (a.k.a. GED) as I did when I decided to embark on this calling. While everyone’s journey is different…

The Myth of Modern Day Lightworkers I see a world full of wanna-be lightworkers. Lightworkers who busy their days with yoga and meditation alone, slapping smiley faces over their truths. And maybe that works for the type of hurts that don’t cut too deep. …

A Journey of Holding Space — Warm air laced with Palo and the scent of sweat breezed across naked flesh, stoking internal fires to infernos. Ice at the edges melting. Bodies melding. The enchantress’s skin glowed as she danced and moved around us…drumming beats in rhythm with our souls. …

A poem — It’s always the ones carrying darkness that you feel the most. Pain sits closer to the surface and you can sense it ebbing. Sometimes quietly, sometimes violently. Always emanating. Reaching. Spilling. Bleeding. Veins like a riptide. It’s always in the eyes. Where cracks of laughter and sin reside. A place…

Seeing Beyond Your Blind Spots and What May Be Holding You Back From the Life You Want — We’ve all had people hurt us in life. I used to think forgiveness was a hall pass, and I held it back fiercely with white knuckles. Because there are some things that just can’t be forgiven and there are some people that you should never have to forgive. But holding…

How It Manifests All Around Us and Why It’s an Inside Job — Psychological safety is present when we feel safe to share our authentic selves in a vulnerable way without fear of backlash or negative consequences. What it’s not is feeling as though we have to mask or filter ourselves, our thoughts, or our feelings to protect the other person or ourselves. …

The Ultimate Gift of Self — The warm air smelled of vanilla and sandalwood, and the stoic walls flickered with the playful laps of candlelight as the amber hues silently danced and teased them to life. He was punctual and well-trained to the protocols of ritual demanded of him. He slipped quietly in through the front…

The Beauty in a Ceremonious Exchange of Power — Holding That Which is Sacred Worship is a sacred, intimate and loving space for honoring the past, sacrificing the present and promising the future. It’s where our masks are dropped and we reveal ourselves as we are, and pay homage to that which we love. The masculine essence loved for all that he has historically…