The Root Stage of Healing: How Breaking Open Saved My Life

Healing doesn’t always look like progress. Sometimes it looks like breaking apart, like falling to pieces with no clear way of putting them back together. The Root Stage of healing is where everything feels dark, messy, and unrecognizable—but it’s also where unseen transformation begins. For me, the Root Stage wasn’t just a metaphor. It was … Continue reading The Root Stage of Healing: How Breaking Open Saved My Life

Seasons in Bloom

Some blooms have fully opened, while others are still in metamorphosis. Some have fallen back to earth, wilted and soft, reunited with the soil of Mother Earth to create whatever her soul craves next. I feel most anchored when I’m surrounded by nature—especially in the deep wilderness, where I can disconnect from the material world … Continue reading Seasons in Bloom

Bloom

In times of personal despair, I turn to Mother Earth for grounding, guidance, and assurance, knowing she holds answers in her cycles and resilience. Just as my grandmothers did, I found myself becoming whole again by nurturing the land, feeling her wisdom infuse me with purpose. After 2017, as the world felt like it was … Continue reading Bloom

Reclaiming Our Power: Energy Work as a Tool for Resilience

Stolen Power During my most demanding year of graduate school, I was invited to take a Reiki Level 1 course. Overwhelmed, yet intrigued, I said yes. I quickly completed my Reiki training all the way to master level, experiencing a profound shift in how I understood our inherent energetic power. As a queer and BIPOC … Continue reading Reclaiming Our Power: Energy Work as a Tool for Resilience

Utopia, please?

Ever since watching Ari Aster's incredible film Midsommar last year, I developed this insatiable desire to find my soul tribe, but I mostly became obsessed with this concept of truly being held. The film depicts a community that feels collectively; whether it be pleasure, pain, chaos, decay, birth, this community does not discriminate. Whatever one … Continue reading Utopia, please?