Collective Care and COVID-19
The global pandemic that is COVID-19 has upended the world. Everyone is impacted. Without exception. The flip side of the seriousness of this illness is growing awareness of how […]
My Love Letter to Life
I live with this ever present ache of love for life. Sometimes this ache finds its expression in sharing practices of affirming worth and value that we might call yoga […]
Birthday Musings
It is the evening after my 53rd Birthday. It is as the German poet Rilke says, “ a strange and wonderful thing to be here.” I am grateful for the […]
I Am Here for All of It.
I am here for all of it. I am here for sunshine and blue skies. I am here for wind, hail, rain and even sleet. I am here for when […]
Introduction- Three Point Practice- #0001
This is the Pilot episode of 814 Grounded Podcast. We hope to offer practices for activists and those who facilitate practices of healing and restoration some tools for these trying […]
Ring in the New Year with Intention, Clarity and Hope.
2017 for me, began in Conakry, the capital city of Guinea, West Africa with a festive soirée that began with a shared meal and had lots of dancing and merry […]
Love. A Noun. A Verb. Love is Gravity. Love Wins.
The dawn tentatively emerges. The angle of the earth to the sun this time of year softens the light. The trees, whose presence blended into the night sky gradually make […]
Remember Who You Are
It is so easy to forget who I am. It is my default mode when I lack awareness and presence to navigate on shifting sand and become so consumed […]
Survivors! You Are Not Alone. From Despair, Hope Rises
Silence is no longer the only option. I find myself in the last month, unpacking and releasing internalized shame that I didn’t realize existed and am certainly not going to […]
Living into Patience and Tenderness
Getting back into my groove with writing again. Have spent some amazing and challenging time in the past few months in immersions with communities committed to doing the work internally […]
