IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Daring to stand in the trembling
A dozen years ago, I taught my first class on creativity and spirituality. A small circle of women gathered each week to give themselves permission to play, to explore creativity as a spiritual practice, and to exhale deeply. Each week, with our hands in clay or...
Hosting ideas, nurturing leadership
Yesterday I got an email from a woman asking me if I ever offered scholarships for my programs. She'd visited the Lead with Your Wild Heart page and said "When I clicked on your course I felt immediately that this is exactly what I need to do." The cost was a...
Circles of Grace: Tips on hosting meaningful conversations
“We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul, that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other, that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery, never trying to coerce the other into meeting...
Family of origin
Because these are the only three people on the planet who: Know the sound of our dad’s voice singing “his eye is on the sparrow” from across the farmyard, Shoveled manure from a pigpen with me, Knew the combination of rings we had to answer on the party line, Crawled...
Bring your creative ideas to the Idea Incubator
"Beliefs that deviate substantially from the general social consensus are especially hard to maintain, requiring usually some kind of sanctuary... in which the deviant belief receives constant affirmation... They provide a kind of incubator for the fragile, nascent...
How to go on a personal retreat
At least once a year for the last dozen years, I have gone away for a personal retreat for a day or two or three. It's a practice that has become crucial to my self-care. Sometimes I go when I need clarity on a new project or new direction in my life, sometimes I go...
She Who Sees
At my recent person retreat, I played with art supplies in the art room, and this piece of art emerged. What's written below comes directly from the pages of my journal, intuitive and uncensored. She Who Sees is Rising It all started with the shrouded eyes, staring...
How to live in the in-between place
Note: Read all the way to the end of this post to find out how to enter to win free registration to Spectrum: A holistic visual journaling workshop. “All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning” - William Bridges In my last post, I...
Letting go of an old story to make space for a new one
"Do not be afraid of the empty place. It is the source we must return to if we are to be free of the stories and habits that entrap us." - Charles Eisenstein I’ve been having a lot of internal dialogues lately, and one of the conversations sounds a lot like this: Me...
Lost and found
There's a meme floating around on Facebook. A six word memoir. Write your life in six words. Here's what I wrote... Lost and found. Again and again. This is my life. Walking the path I think is mine, Until it doesn't feel like mine anymore. Finding myself profoundly...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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