My trauma-body awakened in February 1993. Ice poured down as if from the heavens.  The season had already been brutally cold. It was...

My client, Lisa, the executive director of an NGO in Washington, D.C. is lying on the massage table, fully clothed, as I use my stones,...

In my early 20s, I got myself into therapy. Talk therapy, that is. I had a lot to say and process. It was extremely helpful to have a...

I have a radically expanded view of the meaning and purpose of healing and creativity which speaks to something I call Creative...

About 2 years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world demanding an end to...

Do you want to know what soul loss is? Do you feel you are missing a vital part of your being? Have you heard the words “soul retrieval,”...

Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia.  The...

I live in Charlottesville, VA.  On Saturday, August 12, the date of the white supremacist rally here, I was in South Dakota visiting my...

Is your energy low? Do you feel drab despite the sun shining so brightly outside? Do you feel stuck in your head with old stories and...

In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...

I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream...

One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women.  The researcher...

In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to...