Building a relationship with nature is not just about appreciating the flowers, the butterflies, and the sun. It’s about looking beyond the first and approachable dimension of nature and venturing deeper into the murky waters.

Familiars appear to us when we need them, not when we decide we need them. Their arrival is often abrupt, clumsy, charged with emotion, and shakes up your reality on the spot.

She is also a common first plant ally for both the healers and the healing alike. This is because she embodies the full-arc of what herbalism stands to teach us: respect, nourishment, relationship, and transformation.

I’m slowly studying and working with what’s available to me and what our culture has long forgotten.

It’s the job of a community healer to hold the story of the person, the memory of the land on which stand, and the grief we experience on a cultural scale and continue to pass on from generation to generation.

And resistance can be tender.

“Healing is not linear” is something I’ve heard hundreds of times since getting sober in February of 2020.  And on the intellectual level, I’ve always known this to be true. 

But it’s taken five years for the other shoe to drop. It’s taken five years to really understand that at any moment, we can return to the exact point of despair from which we once arose.

What’s the meaning of the age 33 in astrology?

Age 33 is the culmination year of your Saturn return — a well-known and often-feared transit that each human being experiences around the age of 28 years old. It’s when you face the consequences of what you did and didn’t do during your Saturn Return transit.

Trigger warning: This blog post discusses pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and disordered mental health. If you find these topics difficult to read about, consider skipping this one.

492 people wrote to me about their grief and their departed loved ones. And here’s the data breakdown.

When I asked my Instagram audience the simple question, “Can you pinpoint a moment in your life when everything changed forever?” I was moved by the similarities in the hundreds of answers.

Asking Spirit for signs — visual or auditory queues to manifest in your external reality — is one satisfying way to feel connected to something beyond.

But recently, it’s not the yoga and meditation that has led me to a breakthrough. Rather, it’s the absence of these practices in my life that’s forced me to become a bit more grounded and honest with myself.

Making flower essences has been a fruitful way for me to connect with the land around me and adjust to life in Illinois. Through ceremony, communication, documentation, and alchemy, I am leaning a lot about the plant life here.

Have you ever wondered how a past lives reading might offer you insight about your present/future life?

It is through the chronology of my spiritual teachers that I can pinpoint exactly when I was able to start taking personal responsibility and begin setting boundaries. And then the quality of my mentors vastly improved.

It’s really sort of weird, ya know — bearing witness to people’s pain, often at the worst point in their life, and then going so far as to document it with a camera.

If you are already so incredibly in-tune with your environment that it often overwhelms you… then cultivating an art-making practice is my #1 suggestion for transmuting sensory overload into psychic empowerment.

When I met Charlotte, neither of us knew she had cancer —though I wonder if we subconsciously knew that death was near. By the time the illness was discovered, it was in its far-advanced stages.

Our photographic adventures through Hollywood turned into struggles at several medical centers around Los Angeles.

When it comes to major life changes and breakthroughs, I almost always receive the direction and guidance from my ancestors. They visit me via dreams, meditations, art-making, and becoming radically present.

According to the law, you have to become fully okay with the possibility of your desire never manifesting. You must surrender your desire to the Universe (God, Source, whatever you call your higher power) and let 👏 it 👏go👏.