I am fully convinced that the human nervous system is not adapted to modern life. The lights, chemicals, smells, sounds, pace, rhythms,...

Offerings of food, herbs, libations of wine or mead and other edible items have been expressions of human reverence for as long as human...

Privacy, noun: the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. I have been thinking a lot about...

In February of 2021, I wrote a blog post called Walking the Line where I examined the lines that divide and separate us. In that...

I have been talking about empathy and its connection to trauma on my podcast recently. It is a connection that took me a long time to...

The body is speaking, but I cannot hear the message aside from an ache in the pelvis and a tightness in the wings of the shoulders and a...

I keep thinking it's time to end my sabbatical. I almost open my books, and then I force myself to wait an hour, and I keep realizing...

My heart is in a vice most days. My shoulders creep toward my ears. I long for the peace of the running brook and the breeze on my face,...

On the most recent full moon, I did a ritual of breaking. The universe had shown me, clearly, that a phase of my life was over. I had...

First published as an episode on the Plant Witch Podcast During the Dakota Access pipeline protests of 2016, I learned the Lakota phrase...