ByMichelle Adam
I have a confession to make: when I was in college and my roommate told me that she had been raped during a drunken night in which I was in the same room with her, passed out, I didn’t react. I didn’t feel. I didn’t show compassion. I was numb. I couldn’t feel. I stay…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
It feels like a long time since that morning in July 2014 when I woke up and heard my inner voice saying “Start a women circle!”. Immediately I thought “Who is this?” and soon after I realised that I had heard that voice before and I kind of knew it …My second thought was “Oh…
ByMichelle Adam
Days turn into weeks, and weeks into months, as I live in a house in Berkeley, California with five other people that seem, for the most part, discontent. Although I long to leave, and even seek out other options, my body won’t cooperate with any kind of movement. The message for me is to “be…
ByCatherine Green
I recently read a blog post from a pagan who was very keen to assert her practice of “real paganism.” Now, she professes that most people who identify as pagan don’t do it properly. By that she means they don’t get out in nature, they don’t truly appreciate or try to help Mother Earth, and…
ByMichelle Adam
Greg is his name. I meet him at the YMCA in downtown Berkeley, not far from home. He’s a trainer, and I go to him, thinking he can bring strength back to this broken body of mine. Instead, he becomes another angel in my long healing journey. Soon, Greg and I are visiting every healer…
ByMichelle Adam
The secondhand of the clock moves slowly here in the lowlands of Oakland, California. Everything is an effort: walking around the block, determined to walk again; going swimming at the YMCA; shopping; cooking. When I go to the YMCA, I watch another woman who’s there every time, grabbing onto the low wall, painfully taking baby…
ByTony Samara
The time is now, to give up ideas that have no basis in real freedom in order to discover universal consciousness, which is free of rigid ideas that, by its nature, limit such an experience. Throughout history, every shift in our needs has been met with the creation or discovery of a life-changing solution. As…
ByMichelle Adam
Living in the hills of Oakland, California, was too much heaven for my hips after months of painfully traveling up and down five flights of stairs to survive. Looking out through immense windows of my idyllic home perched above the Bay and, in the distance, the San Francisco Bridge, was breathtaking, but I couldn’t live…
ByAudra Brown
Hi there all, been a really long time since I jumped in and penned a thought to share. This hit me last night and I realized today that I had something that I wanted to share. So with all of the energetic changes that have been swirling around us since this year of new beginnings,…
ByCatherine Green
We are back from our holiday, and a lovely one it was too. I will be writing about our days at the beach soon enough, but for today I want to talk about energy, specifically, a very strange feeling that took hold at the weekend. It sort of came to a head yesterday, when I…
ByJulia Chi
We can all relate to our body hurting, not moving well, stopping us in our tracks… This vehicle we travel in is incredibly durable and supports us through so much, but it is also vulnerable and is affected by everything that occurs in our lives. It registers our every thought, our every emotion, our every…
ByMichelle Adam
I’m sitting on my bed in the living room of my home in the hills of Oakland, California . I’m not alone. A friend, who is a professional massage therapist, is on my bed as well, giving a massage to Archie, the man I met on the plane ride months ago—the one who inspired me to…