To re-wild is to remember the fullness of who we are. The journey of re-wilding is a path of unifying and welcoming any exiled part of ourselves back home into the center of our heart and whole-being. Embodiment allows us to see through the distracting charade of being overly identified with our self-images and personas instead of the core of our being.
Read MoreIn Western culture, we prize a “superhuman ideal.” From a young age, many of us are indoctrinated by cultural and social pressures to reach our highest potential and “hit our life out of the park,” even at the expense of our own authentic desires, health, and emotional well-being.
Read MoreTo be human is to traverse a lifetime of micro and macro initiations. Each one of us is a hero or heroine on a mysterious journey of pleasure, love, and connection, as well as states of fear, anxiety, separation, darkness, loss and heartbreak. Initiations are the path of evolution. They crack us open, break us down, leave us breathless and eventually, through their alchemy and transmutation, present us with our personal light and power.
Read MoreDomestication is the absence of being wild. It’s curated by internalized perceptions of who we think we must be in order to be lovable, valuable, and feel our belonging. To cope, we learn to compartmentalize aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of or that don’t fit into these social and cultural expectations. Each time we banish a part of ourselves, we fragment from our wholeness.
Read MoreSometimes the chains that bind us with patterns of domestication are invisible, even to ourselves. If you’re interested in becoming familiar with how domestication unsuspectingly plays out in your daily life, there are three areas to begin your investigation: 1. Personal and self-reinforced domestication, 2. Interpersonal and relationship domestication, 3. Systemic and power-over domestication.
Read MoreThe matrix of social and cultural conditioning is the most pervasive form of trauma on the planet. It’s a system of mind control that manipulates us to think, feel, and behave in specific ways. Without realizing what’s happening, we become drugged by a fabricated and conditioned reality. One that recklessly distorts our feelings of wholeness and creates a sense of painful separation and aloneness.
Read MoreUnbeknownst to most of us, domestication is already growing deep roots during our early developmental process, which begins while in our mother’s womb and extends through the ages of seven or eight years old. What were you taught as a boy or girl? Let’s take a look at some traditional domesticating expectations of men and women.
Read MoreYour brain is the mapmaker of your belief system. While our subconscious beliefs serve us to an extent, they also leave us with blind spots, such as outdated protection mechanisms. Becoming an integrated human being isn’t about erasing our adaptive strategies, but about expanding and updating responses that reflect who we are now.
Read MoreGoing down the rabbit hole of personal and collective trauma can invoke what some refer to as a dark night of the soul. The phrase “dark night of the soul” is used to describe what happens when the conceptual frameworks of our life, and the associated meaning we have attributed to it, fall apart. This collapse of “normal” can occur suddenly, or slowly over time, creating a dark and disorienting space inside.
Read MoreAs global disruption and chaos increase, most of us feel the impact through spikes of anxiety, fear, and overwhelm. The information age has placed us in a unique time. During previous decades, national news and media platforms had the ability to conceal any information deemed unfit for public consumption. They had the power to leave us in the dark.
Read MoreTo be a revolutionary is to be willing to listen to the voice of our heart and soul. And follow it, even when logic and reason attempt to derail us in order to protect our sense of safety or our self-images.
Read MoreI recently took a significant professional (and personal) leap when I launched my new business, Your Erotic Nature. I’m passionate about this because I know what becomes possible when we know how to access our creative life force of erotic aliveness.
Read MoreFor much of my life, I was caught in the web of what I call ‘The Self-Improvement Campaign’. This ‘campaign’ is the false notion that somehow we are deficient. Therefore, in order to be happy, successful, and belong we have to constantly improve ourselves.
Read MoreWe are in a pivotal time of awakening, change, and growth on this planet. This is the time to reclaim your power, integrity, and authentic sexual expression. Unlocking the cage starts with being aware of the beliefs, thoughts, emotional patterns, and behaviors that create shame or “stuckness.”
Read MoreAs primal creatures, we are bound to be reactive. So how can we develop presence, leadership, and deeply fulfilling intimate relationships when we’re innately equipped with animalistic wiring?
Read MoreHow does the journey of wild salmon reflect the path of living an authentic life? The journey of the salmon is one of the most amazing phenomena in nature. How is it that after years in the sea, they can locate the exact stream in which they were born, and pursue their upstream return home?
Read MoreMuch of what we’ve been taught to value points us outside of ourselves and increases a sense of feeling separate and alone. If we can’t force a system to change then what can we find inside of ourselves that carries us through the storm of collective change? How can leaders challenge the old paradigm and support a collaborative and wisdom-oriented approach towards effective change?
Read MoreWhen we embrace the view that our shadows are as significant as our joy and passion we are on a different journey than the traditional one of ‘avoid feeling and exploring your fear, create illusions of control, and pretend to be what you think is acceptable’. Opening into and witnessing what is present in our experience is the entry point to a path of deepening into an authentic relationship with ourselves and all of life.
Read MoreHave you longed for a particular relationship, job, creating a family or a spiritual realization only to discover that after achieving these things you’re still struggling; still not happy? You discover that these accomplishment themselves are not inherently the key to your deeper sense of happiness?
Read MoreHow often do we sense a longing from deep within and find ourselves gently holding it like an exquisite hummingbird that startles us with her beauty as swiftly as she disappears? How often does it crack us open to something bigger that we sense, but don’t yet know as intimately as we would like to?
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