Healing Internalized Oppression Part 2

Healing Internalized Oppression Part 2

This blog post is a continuation of Healing Internalized Oppression Part 1. It is also part of a much longer self-study CEU of the same name, worth 2.5 PDA points, presented as a discussion between myself and two colleagues, Dr. Rachelle Dixon and Shawn Richardson. If you are interested in purchasing the full conversation as…

Doorways to the Divine: Re-Learning the Navigation of our Emotional States

Doorways to the Divine: Re-Learning the Navigation of our Emotional States

Where Do We Turn?  We don’t just have an inner world and an outer world. Often we think, “Oh, my inner world, my outer world.” But what we usually think of as our inner world is actually our middle world.   This is a Chinese medicine perspective, but it plays right into Sufism: We perceive the…

Herb of the Week: Xiang Fu Cyprus

Herb of the Week: Xiang Fu Cyprus

For almost a year now, I’ve been doing a YouTube series called “Herb of the Week.” These are short, hopefully enjoyable descriptions of various seasonally-relevant herb energetics. These energetics are part of life—not just the life of an herbalist. That’s why I thought I’d share one of these little weekly herb messages right here on…

Conflict of Interest in Partnership: More Wood for the Fire

Conflict of Interest in Partnership: More Wood for the Fire

Conflict of Interest in Partnership: More Wood for the Fire The spring-into-summer time period is about the transition between Wood and Fire, and the relationship between Wood and Fire. It’s a close relationship, because in this system, the Liver and the Heart Mediator are considered to be the two ends of a single meridian, called…

Spring Equinox CEU Finger Scissors

Spring Equinox CEU Finger Scissors

Finger Scissors Here is a Gallbladder and Colon meridian disentangling exercise for people who are really not sure about the difference between their rage and their shit, and they don’t want to fling shit at somebody when they are angry.   I learned this back when I was obsessed with what I called meridian entanglements, or…

Winter into Spring Seasonal Resources

Winter into Spring Seasonal Resources

The “energetic medicine” of late winter is not the same as early winter. While pre-solstice early winter is about greeting the darkness with a willingness to rest and relax into the mystery that surrounds us (rather than being afraid of the dark), post-solstice winter is about the slow steady return of the light. Between winter solstice…