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Why We’re All Addicts and What To Do About It
Why we’re all addicts and what to do about it Often, patterns of addiction stem from our underlying relationship to fear. To draw upon Joseph Campbell’s words—in the lands of our psyches, there may be caves we fear to enter. Mythologically, these caves represent what is unknown or unconscious to us. Addictions serve as a […]
How to Use Functional Medicine to Detoxify Your Life
To be in an active partnership with life, we must maintain the wellbeing of our bodies. Many people are unaware of how deeply our physical systems affect our emotional wellness. In fact, more and more research is showing that gut health and inflammation are causal factors in nearly all mental health conditions. Whoa. That means […]
Why Codependency is a Mirror
When caught up in codependent patterns, it can feel as if our whole beings are holding their breath, as though we are waiting on someone else to validate our experiences. Deeper than that, it is as if we are waiting on something outside of ourselves to validate our very existence. As if the meaning of […]
Why it’s So Hard to Spot Abuse in Relationships and How To Heal
The word intimate has its roots from the Latin word intimus meaning “inmost, innermost, deepest.” Our intimate relationships draw us into the innermost depths of ourselves and often open our eyes to parts of us we’d rather not see. Relationships are doorways into uncharted territory within our own internal landscapes and within the emotional landscape of those […]
Creating a Life of Meaning, Magic, and Purpose
Creating a life of meaning, magic, and purpose A meaningful life has less to do with the tangible offerings that life places (or does not place) before us and more to do with an internal orientation: how we navigate those offerings. In other words, meaning has less to do with what we are doing at any given […]
