Dealing With Pain

When I sink and dance in the realm of the soul – turning towards the dark, tortured depths of its anguish and pathologies – I come to fall in love with the potent images and the Imaginal figures that arise from my mysteries of my psyche. I come to find the gifts in the wounds – the seed of divine longing [how am I called to serve?] in the heated... See more

For me, harmonizing with the trouble is not to find perfect synchronicity or balance, but to move and be moved into a trans-contextual dance of aliveness . It is to become sensually intimate with the push and pull, the tension and release, the agony of death and the joy of living that exists in each moment – with each in-breath and out-breath. As... See more

No matter who you are, there are experiences and emotions that can fuck you up a bit—enough that you don’t want to think of them, enough that they’re marked as off-limits in your consciousness. They’re humiliating, intensely tragic, too much to take. They are not part of the self-image you’d like to have, the unblemished, heroic version of you that... See more

— Grandma, how to do deal with pain? — With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder. — With our hands grandma? — Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking,... See more