Manhattan Book Review

August 4, 2021

Unleash the Girls: The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra and How It Changed the World (And Me) By Lisa Z. Lindahl EZL Enterprises, LLC, $17.99, 321 pages, Format: Trade Star Rating: 5 / 5 Lisa Lindahl, the creator of the sports bra, recounts her journey to fame and fortune in this … Read More

What is a Shaman?

April 26, 2021

I get asked this quite a bit. Who better to answer this question than the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS), where I studied. I offer this information now because remembering such fundamental and powerful ways of perceiving and healing is helpful in these transitional and transformative times. From the FSS Spring/Winter/Spring 2021 newsletter: FSS POLESTAR: … Read More

Reading as Therapy

February 1, 2021

I have always found solace in reading books; entering others’ journeys, mysteries, ideas and thoughts. Recently I have been reading: Infinite Awareness, The Awakening of a Scientific Mind – by Marjorie Hines Woollacott Membranes of Hope,  A Guide to Attending to the Spiritual Boundaries that Keep Life Systems Healthy from the Personal to the Cosmic … Read More

Alone or Surrounded?

April 27, 2019

The artist Louise Bourgeois famously stated, “You are born alone. You die alone…”  And this has been embraced into the lexicon of folk wisdom ever since. She was wrong. Or rather, I disagree. First of all, how can we be born alone when we spend our first 9 months inside our mother’s womb, being so … Read More

Life as a Vibrational Power Node

January 11, 2018

So I am a vibrational node. Endings and beginnings – of years, of relationships, of anything really – are fertile times for reflection if we allow them to be. And I am a thinker, in my head naturally, so this time of year is a particularly ripe season for me. And this is what I’ve … Read More