Today a shaman wrote me, their own struggles painfully reflected in mine. The difference was that my tribe had stepped up to feed me, and theirs had not. My fingers spoke back. I hear your feeling of isolation, disconnect and uncertainty around support. For a long time, I felt very similar… though the feeling of [...]
Epiphany can be intoxicating. It can feel like an aha, strike on high from the Gods, a lightbulb being turned on and shining light into the shadows of a fearful existence. Wake me up, slap across the face… but what do you do about it in the morning? Time and time again I see individuals, [...]
Our bodies have profound wisdom. This skin suit we have is so full of information, capacity, knowledge… it picks up things we could never hear, never see. It understands things our conscious mind is never aware of. I am blessed by my body, blessed for my body. And yet, how often have I not listened? [...]
This morning I got an email asking why I singled out folk with mental illness as something to “watch out for,” when it comes to working with Sacred Kink, in my book “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond.” I speed-responded to the individual, then went back to the manuscript and made sure [...]
Those words keep echoing in my head tonight. “I consent to the journey.” Today I interviewed Mollena, Dan and dawn for my podcast. The conversation topic was consent, and the journey rambled from place to place, story to story, feeling to word to deed. It was funny and sad and delicious… as it needed to [...]
For the past few days I have been following a discussion thread about what it does and does not mean to be a Feri Priest. It led me to this lovely post about what it means to be a Priest, Priestess, Shaman, and more… a great read. The debate came up as to whether a [...]
Aiden, my delicious and delightful human Property, my Boy, my Treasure… they just texted me. Now, for those who know me, you should know that this is not a new thing. Last month we crashed my phone having not cleared out the over 5000 messages he and I had sent back and forth in under [...]