Tonight, if your heart feels heavy, don't try to lift it. Just bring it to the fire. Bring: - the loneliness - the grief - the longing - the uncertainty - the exhaustion All of it. Let the fire hold it for a while. You don't have to. A few nights ago, my heart was heavy. I had been carrying so much. Old grief. New grief. Longing. Disappointment. Questions about love. Questions about myself. I didn't want to think my way out of it anymore. So I did what I often do. I went into my heart. I...

The Day I Stopped Burning Myself Alive (Me and my mom and pops) The revelation didn’t come in a quiet room or a ceremonial space. It came outside, in the sun. I was tanning, lying in the warmth, guiding myself through a deep hypnosis. Something I was doing many times a day. My body had just come through one of the most physically and emotionally debilitating years of my life. I had worked relentlessly to heal. To rebuild trust with my body. To come back home to myself. And yet, there I was...

Some seasons don’t offer clarity — only the dark. I’m moving through one now. Buffalo Calf Woman and Osiris have been walking beside me...