We have to broach the wordless, though, so we can share it. With November, I can pull you by the hand and say, “Come see.” The wordless is invisible, so I must tell you. This may explain my longtime religion, its libraries of eloquent prayers and liturgies. For me, they are foliage: dazzling me with beauty, confusing me with clutter.
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Even as a child, I wasn’t a fan of Halloween. But I love Samhain, which I learned about as...
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Poetry has gracefully braided two important aspects of my work as a psychotherapist – mindfulness and grief. There is a presence in poems that invites us to pay attention, to stop, breathe, focus. It is there that we can be mindful of the life we are living,
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Though I grew up in India, the land of Goddesses, and studied a Hindu tradition for years, nothing prepared me for my awakening to the Divine Feminine.
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In our society, women are denied a safe space to vent their rage. The anger we carry at the sacrifices and losses we accrue over the years in order to survive is treated as unfeminine, negative, taboo. Left to fester in the shadows, this pain perpetuates through generations, and it has been called the Mother Wound.
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.