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What is Lost is Not Gone
The tender ebbing of autumn is everywhere I look in the mountains. The trees shaking loose their gold leaf. The last apples falling from branches, the ceramic blue of the sky echoing behind it all, empty as a holy vessel. And then there’s the other losses, terrible and life-changing, that we’ve experienced this last month…
Surviving the End of a World
It’s been a week full of every feeling, every pain, every depth of muck and every kind of love since I last wrote to let you know about the destruction of our apothecary, and our entire town, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. At the end of the day, most days, I feel like I’m on…
Our Apothecary is Gone 💔
First of all, deep and profound gratitude for everyone who has reached out since last week to inquire about me and my family’s wellbeing. It was been a shattering few days here in the wake of Hurricane Helene. But thankfully we are all well, safe and whole. That said, it has taken me some days…
A Message for My Fellow Sensitives
I’ve been so moved by the response to everything I’ve shared these past few weeks about what it means to be sensitive. There is so much I want to say in response to the beautiful wave of sensitives who have responded to say: yes, this is me. I see myself here. But there’s one more thing I…
Why You Were Born Sensitive
Sensitive people, like you, were specifically created by the Earth to help this world heal. According to Dr. Elaine Aron (the pioneer who coined the term highly sensitive person), HSPs play a profoundly important role in human evolution… With the ability to literally take in more sensory detail (and also process it more deeply) sensitive people…
How to Be a Sensitive in this World
This summer I sent out a survey to my fellow sensitives here and asked: what do you struggle with most about being sensitive? We had over 700 people reply to this question and amazingly, the same answer came up again and again…. We, as sensitive people, are overwhelmed by this world. Over half of you responded that the hardest…
I Want you to Understand Yourself, Dear One
I was lying on the kitchen floor, weeping. I had just gotten home from a show at our local bar. The night had been loud and overwhelming with a crush of people whose names had skipped right out of my mind. Even though I was in the middle of a big time in my life,…
Something for my Fellow Sensitives
Years ago, I heard the call for something to change in my work. Not that I was on the wrong track, but that there was a new level to my offerings, one that contained the truest seeds of my mission in this lifetime… I was being called to work with other sensitives. Because sensitives carry a magic…