(A story of resistance and surrender) The next morning it rained. I buttoned up a warm jacket and set out to find my feet again. Sleepless eyes squinting at the fine mist, I walked with the company of the question: had it really happened? It had. You made me want what...
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To Leonie, Age 7 (take 2)
Every year on my daughter’s birthday I write her a love letter. One day maybe she will want to read them. My sweet girl, I had written an entirely different letter for you this year. It was complete and perfect in its expression of love for who you have been in my...
The Wisdom of Resistance
Come close, dear. I have a secret to share. Your resistance contains wisdom. Multitudes of wisdom. Like a chest filled with golden, glistening treasures. You just need to stop shutting the lid if you want the gems. Now, I know what you’re going to say. But Sonja, you...
The Strength to Feel
What if feeling what we feel is the greatest strength that exists? Too often we uphold the ideal of strength as stoicism, sobriety, or indifference. We are taught that we are at our strongest when no appeal, whether from compassion or anger, can sway us. But that’s...
March Awake in The Nest: Strength
March's Awake in The Nest recording is live! (Available to all Nest members at the Silver level and higher.) Our theme this month is strength, but strength isn't always as it appears. Jump in to walk the continuum between strength, shadow, and superpower. You may not...
The Boon of Bone Broth
If you would have asked me five years ago for my bone broth recipe, I would have stared back at you blankly. That was a time of high-horse vegetarianism for me. I was studying with a teacher at the time who was militant about not eating meat, so I fell in line. I...
To Leonie, Year 6
Every year on my daughter's birthday I write her a love letter. One day may she will get to read them. One of my favorite things about who I've become as your mama is my commitment to honesty. I’ll always show you the value of the truth by telling you the truth. That...
On Courage and Fools
Where do we get the audacity? The Fool is the first card of the major arcana in a tarot deck (though it is technically card 0, pure possibility). We are more familiar with the hero’s journey than the Fool’s journey, but both begin at the same place – blindness to what...
The Wisdom of Strength
There’s a pearl of wisdom I want to share, but it requires me to first untie the story of a pearl as you may know it. A pearl’s origin is a story juicy with symbolism. A grain of sand makes its way into a shell and begins to irritate it. The irritation, over time,...

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The Bhagavad Gita 2:40