We’re Wired to Connect and Protect

We’re Wired to Connect and Protect

Dec 17 Did you know that your brain and nervous system are constantly looking for protection and connection? We long for relationship, bonding, and intimacy, yet our limbic and reptilian brains scan for threat and safety 24/7. They track for perceived threats for our...
Four Gateways to Unlock Suffering

Four Gateways to Unlock Suffering

Nov 21 What does it mean to be an integrated human? As humans, we’re incredibly resilient creatures with hearts, longings, fears, anxiety, perseverance, and experiences of strong emotions and pain. We’re multi-faceted and complex, and yet the path to our healing...
Restoring Justice From the Inside-Out

Restoring Justice From the Inside-Out

What is restorative justice? I’m a volunteer facilitator for a process called, Restorative Justice. The roots of this process come from the lineage of tribal cultures and the practice of ‘council meetings’. On the surface, the intent is to provide an alternative...
Prior Prior to Judgment and Self-Doubtto

Prior Prior to Judgment and Self-Doubtto

Apr 18 Have you ever found yourself sensing that something or someone simply didn’t resonate with you but you bypass this information and listen to what you ‘should do or feel’ instead? This happens everyday. Our mind can be as fast as a hummingbird. Hummingbirds...
Navigating the Threshold of “Becoming”

Navigating the Threshold of “Becoming”

What does it mean when life, as you’ve known it, suddenly changes in a blink of an eye and you find yourself dropped into the desert and the unknown? Or maybe it happens so slowly that you wake up to realize everything in your life has been dying for months or maybe...
How to Lead as a Samurai

How to Lead as a Samurai

To travel the terrain of an authentic leader requires a level of listening, witnessing and an open-heart similar to that of a Samurai. The unwritten Samurai code of conduct, is known as Bushido. The Bushido code holds that the true warrior must possess loyalty,...