What if your resolution for 2023 were to love and accept yourself?

If one were to look at the most common New Years resolutions, you don’t so much see a list of goals so much as a desire to become someone else. I regularly attend a yoga studio. Next week I will…

The Invisible Child: Part 2

When I wrote the “Part 1” to this post, The Invisible Child All Grown up, I honestly was not expecting anyone to read it. When writing a blog, it’s hard to tell which posts will be popular and which will…

Cooking seasonally from the garden with vintage cookbooks

This was our second season of vegan homesteading and our garden pumped out A LOT of food. Our perennials haven’t even started producing yet, so at some point soon I’m really going to have to start figuring out what to…

Shaker Spirit Drawings

We’re in the final stretch for the house renovations, but after 6 months of non-stop noise and an ever-shrinking living space, I knew I needed to get away. So last week I drove to the John C. Campbell Folk School…

On Soul Families, Old Souls, & Walk-ins

When my grandmother died, my family shared a collective sigh of relief. There was no mourning in our house, not even from my mother. I was 16 and I felt like God had given me a gift. I would never…

THIS is why I will never go on another “Meditation Retreat” again

If you’ve been following my blog, then you know that I have been undergoing a kitchen and bathroom renovation for the past 5 months. I told my husband last week that I had to get away from the noise, dirt,…

There is nothing wrong or inaccurate about Black Elves

As you may have assumed, I’m both a fan of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, which means I’m watching both of the current series right now. Although I’ve tried to avoid it, I haven’t been able to…

We are ignoring our most important compass

“And then he got mad for no reason!” “Sometimes I just get anxious…” How many times have we heard statements like this where feelings are presented as something that simply exist outside of reason? Outside of context? As obstacles to…

Reclaiming our Crone Goddesses

In this video I share an experience I had with a Crone Weaving Goddess. One of the things that struck me about this experience was not only how incredible it was, but also how strange it was that I had…

Mediumship & autoimmune disease: A spiritual contagion?

Mediumship and autoimmune disease: both can cause you to suddenly find yourself living a very different life than the one you had planned for yourself. But what is the connection? And why are we finding such high incidences of autoimmune…