RECIPE FOR HEALING Yesterday a new client came in for her second reiki visit. Her foot had been hurting for a long time and she couldn’t...

Have you ever experienced a miracle? I imagine it sounds forced and empty when I say, “I have,” and invite you to do the same. I don't...

This morning I woke up euphoric. What combination of molecules in- and outside me made that happen?Who knows? The tree outside my window...

The other day, for inspiration, I picked up Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, and, with my eyes closed, opened it to a random page. When...

what if it were true that nobody needed your help? what if what they needed was for you to stand in unwavering alignment with your true...

our bodies. they are made up of vibrating bits. we all learned about atoms and molecules in high school science. it’s easy to forget the...

Whenever I hear the phrase"Inner Child" it makes me cringe. At least it used to. It felt woo woo. It felt kumbaya — not the original —...

People ask me what I do to manage my own pain, without taking pills. We say we don't want to take pills, but we live in pill mentality. I...

I have read that night owls are the smartest people. I wonder if the early risers are the most hopeful, the most ardent proponents of...

Reiki is fun. People feel great whether they’re on the giving or receiving end. As you practice more you may start to get intuitive hits....

I remember well the day my real life ended. I was 25. I had been working at what I considered my first real job . Real because I wore a...

I have “a million” things to do today. I’m putting them aside, though, to do this one thing first: to tell you about a man I met in...

Look at all this lavender! I wanted to smell the difference between various companies, species, source locations, and distillation...

Note: the woman in the photo is not my Mom, though she’s every bit as beautiful. Don’t take this the wrong way. My mother is the most...

If you are not an artist or an empath, maybe don’t bother with this post. It will probably be as fun for you as a packed blaring party is...

Did you know that sometimes, when a muscle relaxes it lets out a little sigh like a kitty purring or your grandma starting to snore a...

For five years in the early 2000s, I lived on the north coast of Hispaniola, in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. I practiced massage at a...

I don’t plan to live in Boston forever. It’s cold. Look at my poor car. Remember that? My parents live 90 miles west. They are “getting...

I believe in natural cures, so I decided walking every day would help to cure it. I thought it would be motivating to take a picture of a...

It’s uncanny the way these are blended to work with the chakras. I use them so much that, during Reiki sessions, I now sometimes start to...

I remember the moment well, around 1987-88. I was commuting from Arlington to a “real” job in Cambridge. At night I went out in Fanueil...

Energy takes many forms. Sometimes it takes the form of what we might call a ghost. There are people who communicate with this kind of...

Yesterday in our Reiki Circle we discussed how constant scrolling through social media, or email, or Amazon is another manifestation of...

I wasn’t given a religion. My parents were raised Catholic but had given up church by the time I arrived on Earth. All the babies on my...