I call this “The Journal” instead of “The Blog,” because it’s personal.
(listen to the audio version) I want to thank my husband, Robin, for teaching me the most valuable lesson I’ve ever learned about the need for space in relationships. Like all valuable lessons, I learned this one the hard way. When he moved out of our shared bedroom...
When it hits your body like a wave crashing against the shore. When you finally step out of the fog. When you can barely hold yourself in your seat the moment you see it. When the butterflies making a home in your belly dissolve like vapor in the sun. When it feels...
When you’re not sure and not sure when you’ll be sure. When you’ve given all you can. When your dream doesn't have a place within theirs. When there’s no other option. When you want to keep something for you, without apology. When it’s over, really over. When your...
(listen to the audio version) I think we need some space. Because just as in nature, we begin with space. This is a nod to the Ayurvedic elemental teachings. Specifically the wisdom of akasha, or space, from which all other elements rise. Akasha, that liminal thing...
(listen to the audio version) Some big things happened when I found myself in a circle of strangers all engaged in group masturbation. Not the least of which was the shocking realization that I should center any sexuality I offer to another person from my own...
Welcome to Awake, a workshop on embodied intuition. This month's question, in a month about relationships is this: How have you loved? It's an important question. Given humans' biological need for one another -- and the pain this reality causes us -- it is perhaps the...
I want your broken heart. I want the scar tissue and sutures. I want the bleeding and infested wounds, covered in scabs and bandages. Show me how they hurt you. Then show me how you rose up anyway. Tell me about the first day you realized you were going to make it....
(listen to the audio version) A simple truth about humans – our bodies need other bodies. We need each other to be seen/to see. To be held/to hold. To be received/to receive. Relationships are the blood and heartbeat of life. But they are also the rope, the concrete...
(listen to the audio version) Of all the spiritual practices that I do, the ones I value the most are those that bring me fully into my body. Of all of the practices that connect me this way, I value sex among the highest. Of all my spiritual sexual practices,...
This month in Awake we are freaking out. Not just any old kind of freak out, a wise freak out. One that starts with an inventory of how you freak out and ends with a manifesto of the best ways you can lead your body through a process of necessary emotional digestion....
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The Bhagavad Gita 2:40