Hi Reader! What comes up for you when you read the words “inner child”? When I think of my inner child, I first imagine a little girl, sitting on the playground under the play structure, watching the other kids play and feeling sad and left out. A lot of my “inner child work” involves sitting on the gravel with little Daniela and telling her that I’m with her and I love her. (Being a Scorpio Moon, of course the first thing that comes up is the pain and challenge of being a kid in a small,...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! Yesterday, after feeling hurt by two people in my life, I wrote this sentence in my journal: I am done hiding. I started hiding as a kid. (And not in a hide and seek kind of way.) I ran away any time I had strong feelings that I didn’t know what to do with. Desire, fear, sadness, anger…any intense feeling was a reason to run. It was only decades later that I learned about my Scorpio Moon and began the slow (and still ongoing) process of befriending my deeply feeling self. You may...
21 days ago • 2 min read
Reader, what brings you pleasure? For me, it’s a hot cup of coffee in the morning, the feel of my dog’s soft fur under my hand, a tiny bouquet from the farmer’s market on the table. Pleasure is walking through an airport blasting Third Eye Blind in my AirPods, the knowledge of an upcoming adventure singing through my veins. Pleasure is crawling into bed and pulling the covers over my tired body after an exhausting day. Pleasure is pausing in the middle of a duet with my daughter and watching...
28 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader! I spent last week on a family road trip from Denver to Santa Fe. I went with my sister, her husband and their kids, my parents, and my daughter, Kiara. Sunset in Mt. Princeton Hot Springs, our first stop on our trip There are so many layers to a family trip. There's what you're doing - swimming in the hot springs, talking to Native artisans about their wares, learning about Georgia O'Keefe. Trying to break up a fight between cousins. Crowding into the back of a car after a morning...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! Over the weekend, my daughter Kiara took a swimming lesson for the first time in a year and a half. The last time she took lessons, she jumped into the pool, got water up her nose, and decided she never wanted to put her head in the water again. Her new teacher, Yana, patiently showed Kiara how to glide through the water without putting her head in. After the lesson, she practiced her glide again and again. Suddenly, she slipped and her face went under the water. She came up with a...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! As you may or may not know, I’m a coach who uses tarot and astrology to help you work with your true nature so that you can find a path forward when things are hard, make your creative ideas come to life, and do things your way…even when it seems like everyone else is doing it differently. But…how do coaching, tarot and astrology help you do those things, exactly? Well, that’s what I hope to explore and unpack over the next year. I am going to be writing emails about each of the...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader! Lately I've been pulled in a LOT of different directions. There's the knowledge that my coaching certification is almost over and the deep desire to get my work out to more clients. There's the craving for sugar...holiday cookies, chocolate gelt (aka coins), pastries, candies from my daughter's Halloween stash...all the things. (While also really not wanting to gain back the 35 lbs I lost this year.) There's the pull to lay on the couch under an electric blanket and watch Stranger...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! How is your December going? Mine has been full of electric blankets, hot cups of tea, snow…and sun. After winter finally arrived last week, we are back to 60 degree weather this week. My 7 year old daughter actually wore shorts today. That's Denver for you. And that's kind of how life goes, too. You think something has finally started. Your new business, your dating life, your new way of looking at the world. And then…you realize that you're scared shitless of your newfound...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! A caterpillar sheds its skin many times throughout its life, building more of what it needs to become a butterfly with each molt. When it finally creates its chrysalis, it already has butterfly parts growing inside. Now it spends a few days to a few years dissolving the remaining caterpillar parts and completing its transformation into a totally new form. As humans, we enter the pupa state when we're in the middle of a big transition and/or big grief. When parts of us are...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read