Shift Happens

Today I pretended I was my own client (b/c if I can’t walk my talk, no sense in continuing, eh?) and made a two lists: one with tangible intentions and another to help me move through this sticky sludge like inertia I’m feeling. Here’s the second list.
Navigating Stuckness:
Have a good cry
Discover what I need to [...]

Oneisha Healing Tools

Fourteen years ago this week I left law school to follow my heart in my worklife.  The day after my newlywed husband, Alex, and I moved to Half Moon Bay, CA, we wandered into a little store filled with books, music, and gifts dedicated to healing.  Alex threw me a smile, “You’re going to have to come back [...]

Sacred Life Sunday: Sacred Dance

Thank you, Sacred Dance.
Body
stretches
open
freeing
song
inside
Movement
voices
feelings
follow
inner
map
Remembering
choice
composts
grief
into
healing

Sacred Life Sunday: Choice

Today as I contemplate the sacred, choice is whispering in my ear through an experience. 
Recently, I attended the first class my music teacher taught after a sudden unexpected loss.  Well-meaning intentions created an undercurrent of awareness for our teacher’s potential grief.   She wasn’t having any of it.  Instead, just after beginning the class she said, “We all know this is my first day back.  [...]

In the midst of hope and grief

I went to the The Business of Being Born on Thursday night.  It was the first time I’d connected with the birth community in a while (see post below). I so enjoyed the tapestry of beautiful people from midwives to mothers to doulas to partners who recognize the inherent potential for beauty and power within pregnancy and childbirth.  [...]

Music Weaving

Though I grew up listening to music, I didn’t learn to really HEAR until a healing apprenticeship introduced me to world music.  As a mother of two children under 5, I barely had time to take a shower much less go out for an evening of live music from the Congo or indigenous Australia.  But I could play [...]