10 Tips to Have a Healthy Relationship With Social Media
I’d venture to guess that I spend far more time considering the impacts of social media more than most people. I like to think it’s...
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
When You're Becoming a New You: 3 Lessons to Help on Your Journey
Tiny Buddha | 2021
3 Powerful Lessons Nature Can Teach Us About Letting Go
Thought Catalog | 2019
What Anxiety Taught Me About Following My Heart
Great Big Minds | 2019
Thought Catalog | 2019
How To Push Through Phases of Uncertainty
Tiny Buddha | 2017
This Is Why The Best Way To Heal Is To Allow Yourself To Feel
Thought Catalog | 2017
10 Tiny Reminders Every Single Woman Needs To Hear
Thought Catalog | 2017
To My Fellow Women: There’s Power And Freedom In Sexuality, Own It
Thought Catalog | 2017
5 Little Ways To Achieve Great Things In Life
Thought Catalog | 2017
This Is What It Really Means To Be Feminine
Thought Catalog | 2017
10 Legitimate Reasons To Leave Someone You Still Love
Thought Catalog | 2017
BLOG WRITINGS
A Year in a Yurt: Lessons on Life’s Path
For nearly a year beginning at the start of the Covid pandemic I lived in a yurt tucked within a canyon in rural Washington. It lay...
What Is Conscious Living? The Power of Living With Awareness
Conscious living invites us to explore the question: What’s below the surface of who we are and how we live our lives?
Ride The River: On Navigating Life's Uncertainty
For the last year I’ve lived along the Columbia River that divides Washington from Oregon. It’s the largest river flowing into the...
Winter Solstice: The Darkest Day of 2020
Today is the Winter Solstice: the shortest day and the longest night of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. In...
Things I'm Learning Part 2
Often times, our purpose is born out of our deepest struggles in life. The greatest challenges we experience, whether internally or...
Water the Seeds of Your Life
Your life blooms only when you show up consistently and tend the seeds you've planted.
Quick Note On Growth
Anything you do with the intention of improvement requires that you endure a certain amount of exertion. Take push ups as an example. If...
Things I'm Learning Part 1
Things I’m learning in life part 1: Pain arises in our lives when the reality of our situation doesn’t align with the story we’ve created...
Move With the Waves of Emotion
A few days ago I broke down and sobbed under the weight of my own stress and worry at this time. In one afternoon, it all washed over me and
Finding Stillness in a Storm
"When you're in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered...
Loneliness Is A Lack of Meaningful Relationships
Beneath the forest floor is a networking system between trees that is nicknamed the "Wood Wide Web." This system connects the roots of...
Soul Cycle: Expansion, Lessons From Spring
We all experience a recurring cycle throughout our lives that contains four main phases: renewal, expansion, abundance, and contraction....
Living An Unprocessed Life
Lately I've been especially skeptical of the health and wellness industry (which is now worth 4 TRILLION dollars!) and I've wrestled with...
Why You Must Speak Your Truth
There's a parable I love with a message intended to emphasize the complexity and multifaceted nature of God. It goes like this: "There's...
The Best Routes Are The Reroutes
During my recent drive from Wyoming to move to Washington I unexpectedly found myself on a back road on the last day of my travels. It...
Horizon Line
My internal compass always pointed North toward the horizon line, and I had a tendency to get myself into trouble when I followed it...
It Takes Time To Build What's Meaningful
Are you familiar with the story of The Three Little Pigs? C'mon–everyone is! But just in case it's been a while, here's a little...
Be Fear-FULL & Proceed Anyway
Can I be honest about something? Fear kicked my ass the other night. In the dark space of my room and of my mind, I tossed and turned and...
There's Not A "Right" Decision
Not long ago I met with a young woman who is struggling to decide between staying in college or pursuing a less traditional path. As she...
Perspective Shapes Reality
On life’s scale of experiences, extreme sorrow is on one end and extreme joy on the other. Between the two extremes are a range of...
Do It Anyway
Last year I left a secure path to pursue the authentic desires of my heart. The path first took me to Alaska, where I spent the summer...
Meaningful Moments
The morning of the first of the new year and new decade my dad and I woke early to watch the sunrise together from a wind-blown, Wyoming...
Soul Cycle: Renewal, Lessons From Winter
There’s a cycle that we all experience many times throughout our lives: renewal, expansion, abundance, and contraction. It’s the same...
Her Letters: A Woman's Art
Dear friend, In my early twenties I printed and thumbtacked a piece of art to a bulletin board in my studio apartment of a sensual woman...
The Power of Your Thoughts
If you tie a string around a lifesaver (or a ring, a washer, or a paperclip), hold it between two of your fingers, dangle it in front of...
Her Letters | One
Dear friend, I’ve wanted to write to you for a long time, but it has taken me a while to understand what it is that I deeply crave to...
Rewiring Thoughts & Habits
A dirt path in the wilderness develops after it has been walked over and over again. Overtime, as the result of deliberate effort, what...
Letting Go Is Not A Loss
The other night I sorted books I own into two piles: books to keep (10%) and books not to keep (90%). It’s one step in the process of...
Meaning Exists In Everyday Moments
Lately I’ve been able to feel time in the palms of my hands. It slips between my fingers the way sand trickles through an hourglass. Just...
Growth Follows Devastation
Some species of trees hold a specific type of seed in their canopy that is only released during a natural disaster, most often a fire....
Endings Precede Beginnings
I recently took a walk in the cold woods draped in winter’s blanket. I was attentive to the environment around me. The trees were naked...
Awareness of the Forces That Influence You
Imagine you’re on a stage and there’s an audience before you. You feel confused why you’re there. What is the performance? What is your...
Gratitude For The Passing Of Time
I recently dreamed I was a realtor showing a house to some eager buyers. It wasn’t any ol’ house, though. There was something special...
Be Intentional About Your Beliefs & Choices
My family and I use to eat at buffets often when I was a child. I’d walk alongside my mom or dad, tightly holding a plate in my hands, as...
Release Expectations To Blossom Exactly As You Are
When walking through the woods I sometimes pluck wildflowers to later place in a vase for house decoration. I feel so attracted to the...
Transitions Are Necessary For Growth
Insects and reptiles undergo a process called ecdysis where they shed their exoskeleton or old skin for new growth. For other animals,...
Patience Through The Process of Healing
There is a soft side to the knife of time, and what makes it soft is what also makes it sharp. When the passing of time brings us to a...
Growth Is Uncomfortable Before It Is Beautiful
We each endure cycles of growth throughout the span of our lives. The beginning of new growth often starts with a seed. There’s something...
Heartbreak Points The Way
Romantic relationships can be important teachers in our lives, regardless how they end. Lovers often come with critical information that...
You Choose Your Beliefs & Identity
Imagine for a moment that life is like a bead market. The market includes several booths, and at each booth are people, companies, and...
Map Your Own Path
I use to get lost in articles that taught me how to be a freelance traveling photojournalist. With titles like, “How to Become a National...
Transitions & Transformations
The walls are white. Yesterday I stripped them of all the creativity and life that I’ve worked to create over the past two years. Place....
Life is Movement
We find liberation through movement. Through movement the soul expands, the mind forms new connections, the body pumps fresh blood...