I imagine a decent percentage of people already know what pick-a-card readings are, but I’ll fill you in just in case: a generous subset of YouTube mystics offer up somewhere between three and ∞ piles of tarot and oracle cards, having shuffled them with a particular quandary in mind. Will you succeed? Do they like […]
Category: Personal
Quick update! At least I’m gonna try to make it quick. My personal life still exists, and I suppose it’s worth mentioning now and again. In January (way back under the last administration – ya know, 17 years ago) I completed my second level of reiki training, and since then things in my life have […]
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Farewell (almost) Everything
Welcome to the gray area between blogging and journaling. I have no idea what I want to say. We got a shipment of my books yesterday, and I wanted to write a post about my dark, depressing history with writing, and how I found all these marvelous tools for overcoming it and learning to love […]
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Boundaries: A Guide
As hard as I find it to write posts like this, it feels much harder not to. I’ve learned a lot in my journey away from abuse – about myself, about others, about the way our world works. It would be a disservice not to share out of residual self-consciousness and doubt. There are plenty […]
Before we dig into this post, a disclaimer: As a healer, I don’t view political and social constructs, such as class and race, as independent from personal well-being. I’m not sure how many future blog posts will have a justice-related theme, but I can’t honestly push toward the healing of individuals without pulling for the […]