Last week, I spent about four hours pulling pokey weeds from a nature site where I guide psychedelic journeys.

The project is done.
Let it be empty.

One of the greatest challenges in changing your life is that many people don’t know what they want specifically.

When I consider working with a new creative journey client, I search myself for an image of the relationship.

Do we pathologize our ambition too often? Can ambition also be born of simply having a sense that we have…

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. By 2021 this had more than doubled to 71 years.

Recently, I embarked on my annual vision quest, wrestling with my concerns about turning 50 this year.

My sister said many years ago, “Why would you break up with one partner just to find a whole host…

I woke up this morning thinking about how I want to be celebrated. I want to make something…

Researchers studying MDMA often refer to the prosocial behavior that accompanies…

I have often heard the phrase, "You are a sensitive artist." It never made sense to me before.

In the creative process, there is always a moment of impossibility. This is the moment…

My brother died when I was in high school. He was eleven years older than me and just short of 28 when…

Mushrooms want you to be part of the living biome. Mushrooms want you to be interwoven once again…

A board member on my non-profit Capacitor likes to call me a get-shit-done-er. Some of my…

Anyone who has spent much of their life creating has probably noticed that there is a difference between…

When I was a dance major at SUNY Purchase, I used to sing, “It feels good, baby” to myself between classes.

Our society chooses what is important and then creates the institutions that perpetuate those values.

I used to spend a great deal of time and energy trying to craft my critique for performers and collaborators.

Some dancers need a lot of guidance. They want to know what facial expression to make at each moment in the piece.