I was young when the term “hippie” was in. I wanted to grow up and be one. They had long hair, no matter their gender. My mom kept mine short. They wore flowered pattern clothes. The only blossoms in my life were in the garden, which I had to weed every day in the summer. It didn’t seem they had to ...

In April, I attended the Iceland Writer’s Conference. It was in Iceland. I was cold the entire time. I was also a misfit, as I am working on children’s picture books and young adult novels. These are considered bargain basement books amongst those more literary than me. But I did learn a super fun m...

After more than four decades of working with the human energy system, one truth continues to reveal itself. That is .... 

Everything has an order.

Our bodies know it. Nature knows it. Energy knows it.

When we work in harmony with that natural sequence, healing has somewhere to land. Clarity becom...

Life can be incredibly stressful. That is the nature of it. Modern society is especially hard because there are no margins.

Remember the old-fashioned notebook paper we used in school? The type with you’ll plug into a three-ring binder? It had margins. They were useful for taking notes, sure, but a...

Those of us in the consciousness community would never guess that one of the sources of knowledge about the silver cord is the Bible. Nor do you probably know interactions through this cord delivers powerful healing.

The "silver cord of life" is a metaphysical and poetic concept referring to the un...

My son Gabe thinks I have an elementary school brand of humor. Adult humor flies over my head. Give me the stuff of my childhood—a few jokes which I’ll share within a few paragraphs—and I’m cracking up.

The good news is that no matter what we think is funny, every time we chuckle, laugh, grin, or b...

The Cancer New Moon on July 14 invites us to return to one of the most important forms of guidance we have, our own inner knowing.

I'm delighted to share this article, originally published by Elephant Journal and co-authored with Gina Nicole Ballard. As we wrote it, we realized something that conti...

We are wired for joy. In fact, our bodies make at least seven molecules that create versions of joy, from dopamine (that’s the new trend) to oxytocin (bonding, anyone?) There is even one I just learned about called “myokines”. Proteins produced by working muscles, they are called “hope molecules”.