This piece originally appeared in my friend Lisa Weinert’s Off the Page Substack, a beautiful gathering place where writers share how their creative lives are nourished beyond the page. You can subscribe to her newsletter here. Although the Finding the Voice Within master workshop I led has passed, I’ll be offering a new one in […]
There is an old story, told in a thousand voices, across a thousand epochs. It is the story of love as a singular path, a singular devotion, a singular undoing. It is the story of the one great love that devours all others, that demands everything in return. In these stories, love is a knife: […]
There are those who come into the world to bring light, to open doors, to remind others of what they have forgotten. And there are those who, upon seeing this light, try to fix it in place—to name it, to worship it, to build walls around it and call it a temple. But the ones […]
For centuries, the oracle has been imagined as a passive conduit—a woman in a trance, a seer frothing through the mouth and overcome by uncontrollable visions, a mouthpiece through which a vast and ineffable divine (usually prefigured as masculine) speaks. The oracle is often revered but removed, a figure who surrenders to the will of […]
This is a talk I recently gave to one of the alumni groups for the incredible Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, which I completed in 2023. The topic of loneliness is one I ponder fairly frequently, being prone to spells of it that I can only describe as mental vertigo. But, as the talk demonstrates, […]
Clear light. Pure light. Rainbow light. The light that surpasses cognition. The light that disavows duality. The light that is not separate from darkness. How do we walk toward it? How do we recognize it? How does it change the way we see-hear-feel-think-sense-know? Contemplate your typical associations with light. Are they of the “spiritual” garden […]
Please enjoy this 9-minute meditation on self-love, inspired by Tara Well’s superb book, Mirror Meditation: The Power of Neuroscience and Self-Reflection to Overcome Criticism, Gain Confidence, and See Yourself with Compassion. Musical accompaniment, as always, is provided by my beloved, Shawn Feeney (shawnfeeney.com, https://www.instagram.com/shawnfeeney).
Please enjoy this month’s meditation on deeply listening and reattuning to ourselves. It includes sonic accompaniment from my husband, Shawn Feeney (website: shawnfeeney.com; Instagram: @shawnfeeney). I’m thrilled to share that we’ll be collaborating together on a series of monthly meditative livestreams, retreats, and other events—more to come in future newsletters.
In honor of the solstice, I encourage you to deepen into the velvet-black, hibernatory space of the season. Take some time to listen to this supporting audio journey: Next, contemplate the places of darkness in your life. I’m not necessarily referring to our regular associations with anger, horror, hell, or any of the concepts of […]
Now, take a look at the space around you and imagine that this is a map, across time and space, of your life. It contains all the phases, all the transitions, all the cycles you’ve been through. Find a place in the room that feels like it marks where you are here and now. Where […]
