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One woman in our collective recently shared with me that she is feeling sexually shut down these days, not interested in her partner touching her, and that this is creating tension in their relationship.   As we continued to talk, she and I both understood that she’s feeling tons of tension in her body for a variety of reasons and that she just doesn’t feel safe enough or relaxed enough to be intimate with her partner. She explained that these feelings have nothing to do with

I am. I am sure it has to do with the fact that it is the peak of summer and over 40 degrees here every day… and it is also connected to my pace of life, how many things I want to accomplish in any given day and how intensively I expect myself to be in action on an ongoing basis.  What happened to the value of rest?  There is so much to be said about the culture that demands from you to be in action all the time, to constantly produce, create, grow.  Yet we know that it is si

How can you stay aware of the sacred in your day to day?  I cannot tell you how many people have reached out to me  asking for help  to think about how to integrate an awareness of the sacred into their daily life.  So often you can have a really powerful experience in a ceremony or a workshop  or a simple moment with your beloveds and then when you return to the routine of daily life that moment feels like it is gone.  Of course, it is really easy to respond by saying that e

A young woman recently shared with me that she is really struggling with commitment. She has expressed fears that saying “yes” to anything—projects, relationships, responsibilities—limits her. When I asked her what she is afraid of, why she chooses to decide about things at the last moment, her instinctive response was that she appreciates her freedom. Immediately, my inner voice whispered to me, that’s not freedom, that’s isolation. We live in a culture filled with endless

If you are anything like me you can feel the tensions that are so alive in these times you can feel how profoundly the challenges in...

For as long as humans have walked the earth we have made offerings for so many reasons to ask for protection to give thanks to honor...

As a young adult, I remember saying often,  I am looking for inspiration.    Something felt flat to me, though I did not have the words...

What does it mean to actually accept yourself with love?  Two months ago, I celebrated my birthday by making a small ceremony for myself,...

My mother was a master of gift giving.   Before big family celebrations, she delighted in going to the nearby educational toy store to...

The world is changing so fast. How are you feeling in the face of such rapid movement? Are you finding a good balance between rest and...

How does it feel to you to stand at the crossroads of a decision?  At some point in my life I realized that there is a distinct...

There is something about these times of fragmentation and separation of polarization and distance that leaves me feeling very alone. ...

Living in this part of the world which some call Palestine some call Israel and many call home has never been easy.  Now, more than ever, I can see how easy it is to hold on so tight to what we think is true to the stories that have defined us for generations instead of lifting our eyes to the horizon to see a future that could actually possibly be bright.  Living in the shadow of war — and walking the path of peace.  What does it mean to collaborate with someone with whom I

Sometimes I wake up in the morning  and my body feels heavy perhaps a bit stuck and I notice my thoughts can be the same heavy and...

Living with grief is a full time job.  It’s not a thing to get over grief — there is not a day that goes by when I don’t think about my...

What a year this has been.  In the traditions in which I have been taught  The people come together to celebrate the seasons venerating the sacred calendar  of the wheel of life.  How do you celebrate this turning of the seasons?  How do you recognize this moment of darkness? What will you renew as the light returns?  I am carrying a prayer to truly recognize  the blessings in my life I am committed to integrating a consciousness of gratitude  in the deepest way that I can to

How much does it need to hurt, this pervasive loneliness, eating away at our hearts until we are so frozen, so unwilling to express our...

Even though I have been working for years to love my body to accept myself with compassion There are definitely still times when I look in the mirror and simply do not feel good.   At the same time you know like I do that the only difference between us and the ones in the stars is that right now we still have a body.  It is this body that gives us life that opens the possibility for us to grow to listen with all of our senses  to the universe.  It is this body that moves us t

It happens to me too.  All the time.  During the night, in front of the fire, I can feel the magic that lives in us all, I can see that...

It is now the month of Tishrei, which begins with Rosh Hashana, the holiday that marks the New Year in the lunar calendar of the Hebrew...