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The Only Way Out Is Through

From Limitation to Liberation

Shed Your Capricorn Conditioning to Unleash Your Genius Aquarian Weirdness Live and in person in Santa Fe, NM with renegade astrologer Emily Trinkaus, Sunday, October 6, 10am-3pm Our first retreat was such a fantastic and fun success we’re doing it again! A women’s...

Activate Your Liberation

I dunno about you but I am sick to death of being the good girl. Sick of playing by the rules of a game that was never intended for me to win, only to keep you and me on the hamster wheel of doom, ever striving for validation outside of ourselves. Sick of wearing the...

Honoring the Holding Pattern

I sense – and I’m sure you do, too – that great change is on the approaching horizon. I lean towards it and feel the thud of the glass wall – the bell jar - that encases me. It’s the holding pattern. And I am in it. You know you're in a holding pattern when you crave...

Vision Quest Part 3: Letting Go to Receive What Is

Letting Go to Receive What Is After cruising through southern Colorado, visiting Mesa Verde, soaking in the Durango Hot Springs and cresting Wolf Creek Pass, I was finally heading towards my home state of New Mexico. I intended to make my way to Wild Rivers Recreation...

Vision Quest Part 2: A Canyon of Grief

A Fleeting Life, A Canyon of Grief After a solid week in a sea of orange sandstone and pale sagey green, my body and soul were ready for a cooler, more verdant experience. The overriding intention for my quest into the unknown was to practice tuning in more deeply to...

Vision Quest Part 1: Becoming Spider Woman

Becoming Spider Woman in the Utah Desert I turned 50 last month. It was not the birthday I had envisioned some years back. I didn’t dress up as that 50 year old SNL character. I wasn’t surrounded by friends wearing wigs, drinking cocktails and being outrageously...
Bridging the Head and the Heart
Bridging the Head and the Heart

The Mind, Decisions, and Duality   The mind may be our greatest gift and also lead to our greatest undoing. Sometimes it feels like my mind is at war with my heart.   We live in a time and place where the mind has become the most esteemed and revered part of...

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Do You Make Time For Yourself?
Do You Make Time For Yourself?

Are you willing to make time for yourself?   Are you 100% content with the direction your life is taking?  Do you feel like your comfort zone has gotten a little too tight?  Are you craving a deeper connection with your intuition?  Do you need a little more head...

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Intuition, huh?
Intuition, huh?

Intuition, huh! What is it good for? Absolutely everything! What is intuition?   Intuition is your very own internal GPS system. Within each of our (oftentimes) messy minds and beautiful bodies lies a super power. A navigational system so precise, it puts Google...

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Self-Compassion Is Damn Hard Sometimes
Self-Compassion Is Damn Hard Sometimes

It Ain't Always Easy To Be Kind To Yourself Despite our best efforts, taking solid care of our emotional, spiritual, and psychological selves can be damn hard sometimes. In life, some of the only things I can guarantee you (besides an end to it all) is that there will...

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Being Grounded In Your Truth
Being Grounded In Your Truth

To be “grounded in our truth” is to know our truth, speak our truth, and act on our truth. Sometimes it’s not so easy to do. Take some pointers from the mighty sequoia to live wholly and fully out loud.

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Is Your Story Is Out To Get You? Change Your Story!
Is Your Story Is Out To Get You? Change Your Story!

Ever feel like your stories are trying to kill you? What's your story? And can you change your story?   In my world, your story is the set of conditioned beliefs that you believe to be true. These are the beliefs that you inherited from countless generations...

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Finding Balance on The Full Crow Moon
Finding Balance on The Full Crow Moon

Why is finding balance so challenging sometimes?   Like now, for instance.   We've been cooped up for months. Long nights. Cold days. Hibernating, watching Netflix, drinking and eating more. We're stir crazy. And beneath it all, there's this feeling of new...

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Is Your Passion Project Collecting Dust?
Is Your Passion Project Collecting Dust?

Hey, does this ever happen in your world? Got any passion projects you can't seem to get off the ground?   You know what you want to be doing with your time and energy, you’ve got the skills and know-how to get it done, you're super excited about it, but somehow...

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Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart
Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart

We humans are a curious bunch. Our brains and bodies are neurologically and biologically wired for connection. We need it, we want it, and we can’t live – like, really live – without it. We’re hungry for it. At the center of this hunger is the heart. So intrinsic to...

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Self-Acceptance Changes Everything
Self-Acceptance Changes Everything

We all do, say, and think cringe-worthy stuff from time to time. We’ve done it in our personal lives, we’ve done it at work, we’ve done it the dinner table. I know I’ve spent A LOT of mental and emotional energy in the past, hashing and rehashing something I said (or...

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2018. A Conflagration in Review.
2018. A Conflagration in Review.

Is hope possible? 2018 saw massive upheaval. We stood on shifting sands. We burned alive, trying to escape. The survivors breathed in and choked on our remains. The monstrous, racist head of nationalism rose up the world over. And in this precious moment, hundreds of...

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