After decades of healing work, I am convinced that power is at the core of our personal and planetary issues. That is why when people ask me what I do, I tell them I am a Guide to Self-Empowered Healing. In our society, men are trained in the expansion and uses of their power, but…
In stillness there is freedom, a state where we are no longer caught in the pain of the past or in fear of future events. Freedom is intimately connected to sovereignty, because free people are harder to control than those who live in fear. And what do we fear? That our wealth will be taken…
Several years ago, I worked as a guide in Antarctica. While it was standard practice to do everything for our clients, I made mine as self-sufficient as possible believing this would elevate the true wilderness experience they had come for. On one such trip, some of my clients wanted to take turns navigating the ubiquitous…
One of the hallmarks of mental distress is fragmentation. Emotions are heightened, especially fear, and the mind becomes disordered as it deals with a level of stress it has rarely, if ever, encountered. Meaning falls apart; confusion and uncertainty take its place. The once solid ground underfoot turns into shifting sands beneath one’s feet. Those…
The most valuable asset you have is not your time or your money, but rather, your attention. It is so precious, in fact, trillions of dollars are spent worldwide to capture it. Add in the fact that we are living in a soup of distraction that includes being bombarded with more information than the human…
The word addiction comes from the Latin addicere, ‘to surrender oneself.’ The opposite of surrender is to conquer, from the Old French conquerre, ‘to overcome.’ If you talk to enough addicts, or work with them as I do, you will notice a common current running through our stories: we lived through painful events that left…