“How are you doing, really?” So many of my conversations with family, friends and colleagues starts this way. How are we doing? For a few of my friends, they are, honestly, doing really well. For some reason, this moment and its limits are a really good fit for who they are and what they need. […]

Like many of us, I’ve found myself having to re-design pretty much everything I do. This applies to both our personal lives and our work lives. For example, as someone who’s depended upon day hikes in beautiful places on a regular basis to maintain my mental health, I am now finding new beauty (after lots of initial […]

I think it’s the first time in my life I’ve shared an experience with 7 billion other people. That’s what Suzi Tucker, faculty of the West Coast Intensive, said in a meeting last week as we were addressing questions about the upcoming event. (See more on that below.) My head reeled in response, and my […]

It’s a hard time. As constellations work tells us, systems can be expected to fall apart when disorder goes too far, and we are seeing that. Not only seeing it, but experiencing it – not at a distance, some other country or people who are suffering, but us, and everyone. Constellations also teaches us that […]

So many of my clients are tired. Not just tired in all the ways we are in our overly-busy culture, but tired of, well, healing. They experienced serious traumas in childhood, or inherited patterns of suffering from their families, and they want something better. Many of them have been seeking greater ease for years. They […]

So much of our healing industries – whether for personal or for societal healing – seem to focus on division and figuring out who’s to blame. Is it our parents? A social group? A perspective? Maybe ourselves? As a result, our healing work can inadvertently reinforce divisions, whether in our culture or in ourselves, which […]

We’ve been taught to forget our ancestors. We’ve been taught we are alone, and it’s all up to us. We’ve been taught that there is no real place for us, not anywhere… But give us credit: we’ve truly done our best adapting to these principles. So did our parents, and their parents. For quite some […]