The Village Healer

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  • Grief Lies In Empty Spaces

    The empty space left by someone you love after they transition is the space that grief fills. The bigger the space, the bigger the amount of grief that will fill it.   Everyone you love takes up some sort of… Continue reading

  • Heal Your Feminine

    Everything in this world is a balance of Yin and Yang – feminine and masculine energy. Both are equally important and thus must be equally nourished and fostered. However, yang qualities tend to be favored disproportionately. In short, Yin has… Continue reading

  • Victim Mindset

    Overcoming one’s traumas and the victim identity can be a tricky thing. While we tend to think of victim thinking as ‘poor me’ thinking, that is only one type. Victim thinking can take many forms. Think about trauma like conquering… Continue reading

  • Intuition: The Soul’s GPS

    Over-reacting; Too sensitive; Emotional; Reading too much into it; These are a few of the words used to describe me over my life. This is how I was shamed out of relying on my intuition. In fact, at one point… Continue reading

  • Let’s Talk “Spiritual Bypass”

    Have you heard this term? It has become a new buzzword in the personal and spiritual development worlds. First of all, I find it redundant. What I understand spiritual bypass to be is nothing more than regular old denial/distraction, with… Continue reading

  • Surviving Vs. Living Resonantly

      “When you’re surviving you can’t dream.” No truer words. How simple and yet so powerful. Its true, when our focus is on surviving there is no room or energy to dream. And yet dreaming is how we move beyond… Continue reading

  • Feeling Victimized

    Looking back on my journey of awareness/consciousness/living resonantly, or whatever you want to call it, I find it interesting to note that when I have felt most victimized, I wasn’t being victimized at all and when I was actually being… Continue reading

  • Your Body Tells Your Story

    If you know anything about me at all by now, it’s how strongly I believe in the connection of Body, Mind & Spirit and that everything physical issue has a metaphysical root. A few weeks ago I suffered great pain… Continue reading

  • The Inter-Dependent Relationship Model

    You’ve heard of independence, right? Dependence? And co-dependence?  But how often do you hear of interdependence? This is not surprising in a society that uses fear as a tactic to motivate us. Imagine making a journey across the country, before… Continue reading

  • The Art of Being Misunderstood

    Being judged by another is painful…and timely, as I just finished hitting ‘publish’ on my conflict resolution piece entitled “Don’t Be The Bigger Person”. (The judgement is not related to the article, but rather a response to an unrelated post… Continue reading