It’s a dangerous day in your inbox.
What if the only solution for our consumer based present is to fix our attention on the past and the future?
Mythology, Violence, and Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About The Killing of a Sacred Deer
How to Unlock the Wonder of Your Own Story
Creative Originality, the Raven, and a Writing Prompt
To Communion and Sovereignty. To Community and the Collective.
Notes on the Harvest (Plus, Cool Stuff Offered By My Friends)
Words are Weightless. Words Shape the World.
What Story Is Mine to Tell Right Now?
Untethered and (Dis)Connected: How to Return to Your Creative Path On Your Own Time
What if it’s the relentless press to be productive and commodify every free moment that’s the problem? What if it’s the equation of busyness and self-worth? What if we must finally, once and for all, smash the foolish belief that everything is going to feel “normal” again just because we landed on a certain date or reached some artificial milestone?
It's Time to Tell Stories That Are Rooted In the Earth
Right now, I don’t know how to tell a story that isn’t rooted in the soil, soaked in the rain, singed by the fires, and aware of the climbing temperatures. I may not be writing about the climate directly, but I find I am always in conversation with the Mother, with the Earth, with all the unseen interactions between humans and nature.
Every Little Thing She Does: Magic through the Eyes of the Princess, Queen, and Wise Woman
Permission to Make Magic. Permission to BE the Magic.
It can feel downright wrong to share our magic in the marketplace of ideas.
Modern digital life has a way of commodifying hallowed ground, and we can feel like part of the problem when we stick a “for sale” sign on the intimate truths that ground our lives and spirits.
So how do we share what’s most sacred, special, and magical about our stories and our work?
A Healer with a Pocketful of Wild Violets
What's Illuminated by the New Moon?
Make Your Writing Desk a Sacred Space
A Visit to the Ancestors This Saint Patrick's Day
Celebrations and the Power of the Princess Within
In The Sovereignty Knot, you meet the Archetypes of Sovereignty: the princess, the queen, and the wise woman. We are always all three at once, though some of us are more comfortable working with the energy of one more than the others.
For many women who pride themselves on "holding all the things," embracing the princess within can feel regressive. We're supposed to get past all that foolish pink and naïveté, right?
Wrong. Here’s why we need the princess within.
Brigid, Imbolc, and a Sense of Renewal, Wherever You Are in the World
It’s Imbolc. This Celtic festival celebrates Brigid, an Irish goddess and saint who takes a prominent role in The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. On this one year anniversary of the book’s publication and a time when we could all use the renewal of spring, it’s time to get to know Brigid a little better…
