Sarah Shimon

You can stop pretending everything is okay This summer Robert and I traveled to Portugal to search for our new home. It was such a relief to arrive in the beautiful green mountains, to swim in the pristine rivers and to breathe a sigh of relief after the intense period of war we have lived.   Three weeks into our trip, just as we started to really focus on our possibilities, we were awoken at 3 in the morning by a very calm policeman who simply said, “fire is coming.” We had seen the fire...

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 everything is...