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Surrounding myself in the quiet light of water.

While in Europe, I was constantly in awe of how warmly we were treated, and how warm I was able to be in return. My guard was down. I could...

I've held so many dying and dead birds, I've lost count. I rescued robins as a child, I've held hummingbirds, starlings and recently, a Western Tanager in my hand as...

“You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control, but you never had any control–all you had was anxiety.”                                                 –Elizabeth Gilbert   What is a Patriot? ...

Freedom is contagious, yet none of us are truly free if some are still behind the bars of shame and oppression. We have a long way to go. I hope this Russian war in Ukraine ends quickly and that people learn what abuse of power and unaddressed trauma and shame can lead to. I hope we listen to one another. Attend to our wounds. Stand up for each other. Demand accountability from our leaders. Freedom and Justice for all. The American dream, the global dream, everyone’s dream.

Fight versus flight is a myth. They are actually both a type of running: running from others and external stressors, versus running from self and our own internal battlefield. We first have to take a look inward at ourselves and address the shame with truth and compassion before we can be free to fly. To lift. To soar.

Running was always my superpower, but at one point I had to mourn my relationship with running and reimagine it; work through the pain and shame that both running and living a life in a human body brings and find a way to be transformed instead of defeated.

I grew up around cattle. I chased them back into pastures on horseback, on four-wheelers, and running through slick mud in Roper boots, aka “sh*t-kickers.” Calves are my all-time favorite...