Healing

Never Give Up: Thoughts On the Coronavirus Pandemic Hello Dear Reader, Things have changed quite a bit since last I wrote to you. The world has now entered a pandemic,…

The Expressive Arts Institute at Salve Regina University: My Story I moved to NY at the beginning of 2018 because I needed to start over. I had become a workaholic…

“Don’t let your mind bully your body.” ~Astrid Alauda Today on the blog I thought I’d take a moment to wrestle through a topic that is always a hard one…

I’m here again on the blog to talk about another topic surrounding yoga, the body, and the mind. Many times in yoga, we talk about listening to our bodies and…

Today I wanted to offer a simple mediation you can do at home to help you relax and ground down when you’re feeling particularly stressed or overwhelmed in your mind.…

If you go to any yoga class I teach, you’ll notice I often start the class off with a breathing exercise. There are a lot of different breathing techniques in…

Recently, I talked about how unhealthy our modern obsession with the pixelated image (think Instagram, Facebook, etc) can be. Many of you (including myself) often pay unhealthy attention to images…

  On October 30th, 2012, I got the phone call that no one wants to receive: It was from the sister of my dearly beloved best friend and Kindred Spirit,…

On October 30th, 2012, my dear friend and Kindred Spirit lost her life in a Christian community that had turned into a cult. She was psychologically and spiritually abused by…

Walk the Straight-N-Narrow:  A Poem about the Spiritual Abuse of Spiritual Authority Walk the straight-n-narrow, They said, And nothing will go awry. Walk the straight-n-narrow, and don’t ask the question why.…