If you are of the masses of people in the throes of some version of a gift giving holiday- the pressures can be immense. As a parent, a widow, an ex-church girl, married to another ex-church girl, Christmas eve and morning have layers and layers of demand, grief, resistance, labour and in short, so much…
On this the night after the darkest night, we (my partner in life and business Jess DeVries) want to offer you a gift, a little light. It’s something we made from little sparks and shimmers and glimmers that we each found in the dark. As we welcome back the light, slowly, but surely, we also…
You are the boss of your own body, and your participation in any activity, practice, ritual or experiment is yours to decide and determine. Most of us carry legacies of dominator culture in the ways that we experience our bodies. We were trained as very young children to not notice, notice less or become spiritually…
I made this map that illustrates both a provider and client, each with (at least) four tentacles connected by a bridge. The bridge is labelled “the boundaried container where we meet to do the work”. This imagery comes from boundaries teacher Eliah Pritchard, who explains boundaries as a bridge between individuals, where we meet (or…