Sequoia: healing from the roots up

I'm a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.   - Cheryl Strayed (Until now!)  Sometimes we need to simply ride the wave.   No matter how crazy it feels. No matter how it looks. Just trust that the wave is taking you where you need to go. I am stepping into my power in a whole new way. I am consciously shining my light more brightly, and being seen, and getting my message out there. Outside of my head and heart, and into the world around me. The message that the Great Mother wants to share through me.  This message is about: wild. So often our deepest message is one that people would never suppose of us. One that is an all-consuming, unseen, life-longing. All of this requires peeling away of layers, then more layers. Facing walls of fear. Calling the bullshit. Clearing out the old, so that the new can enter. It does not always feel good. This is not all comfy cozy stuff. It threatens other people, it challenges the...

To know someone deeply   is like hearing the moon through the ocean  or having a hawk lay bright leaves at your  feet. It seems impossible, even while it happens. -Mark Nepo             To know and see someone deeply, and have them know and see you deeply, is one of life's most beautiful gifts.  In the midst of busy, chaotic, and sometimes overwhelming life moments, it is like a deep, cleansing breath. It says; I can relax now. I am home. This is what really matters. It is like a wild, sacred moment of truth. It is a place where there is no room to be scared. The place you knew you always wanted to be, the place you knew was always inside you, waiting patiently for you to notice. Everything that you have been longing for is waiting there for you, it has always been there. Because it is within you, not without you.  "Only by daring to be ourselves, can we deeply know others." - Mark Nepo When you find y...

My real name is Joy Seeker (watch out for the joy snatchers) Yesterday my name was Rock the Boat Today my name is Breathes-with-Steady-Heart Tomorrow my name will be Flying Yellow (with grass between her toes) Secretly I know my name is Radiant-light-high-on-a-hill-deep-in-a-cave                                                           My name was once Deep Sadness                                                           In my dream my name was Cheetah-many-spots                                                            (about t...