The Source for Healing

01/20/2026

Going through old photos of our beautiful annual Moondance in Costa Rica with Abuela Ana Itzpapalotl. So many powerful memories, so much growth, in myself and within this profound community of human beings. Thank you to Life that I get to go again this year, my 9th year, with my 13 year old daughter. This is sisterhood in all its marvel and complexity. This is men supporting women’s prayer. This is elders who are revered for their wisdom and life experience. This is special relationships between Madrinas and ahijadas. It’s not perfect, drama happens, but we get the opportunity to lean in, to learn, to get humble and empty ourselves so we can get ever closer to the Great Spirit. What a profound honor and blessing to be a Moondancer.

01/19/2026

Parkinson's Disease: 3 little Known Early Warning Signs we should all be paying attention to. Parkinson's is noted as one of the fastest-growing neurodegenerative diseases, outpacing even Alzheimer's in its rate of increase. U.S. studies showing a nearly 50% rise in new cases. Read here to know what to look out for.

In the last year, three people I know have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Each time, I've sat across from someone whose life has just shifted—a diagnosis that marks the beginning of a long, uncertain road with limited conventional treatment options. Each time, I've thought: what if we ha...

01/15/2026

The little known warning signs of Parkinson's Disease that show up as much as a decade before diagnosis. You don't need to watch and wait. There's much you can do to protect your brain and reverse neurodegeneration. Especially if you have a family member with this diagnosis, this is a must read. Read more: https://wix.to/diUqMS6

01/07/2026

You're not late - we've only just begun

Join Us Here There's Still Time to Join Us We're in the first week of The Final Shedding—a 10-session Qigong series designed to help you release what's finished and nourish what's emerging. If you've been thinking about joining, now is the perfect time. All sessions are recorded, so you'll have ac...

01/05/2026

12/20/2025

Could we sit in the darkness without pretending it isn't dark? The lights go up earlier each year, it seems. Storefronts blaze with cheer, carols loop endlessly, and everyone asks about your plans. Yet for many of us, this season—the stretch from late November through the new year—feels less like celebration and more like survival. Do you feel it? The burden of being cheerful? Do you feel out of step with the season everyone else is celebrating? If you're struggling right now, if the darkness feels heavier than it should, if you can't quite muster the joy everyone expects: you're not alone. Read more: https://wix.to/48wncuE

The lights go up earlier each year, it seems. Storefronts blaze with cheer, carols loop endlessly, and everyone asks about your plans. Yet for many of us, this season—the stretch from late November through the new year—feels less like celebration and more like survival. Do you feel it? The burde...

12/04/2025

We've been sold a story that salvation lies in self-improvement, that if we could just heal our trauma, set better boundaries, manifest our desires, align our chakras, we would finally arrive at some state of completion. But the truth is simpler and more challenging: we become whole not by perfecting ourselves but by taking our imperfect, still-becoming selves and offering them in genuine relationship with others doing the same difficult work.

In an age of sides, of us vs. them, of tribalism wearing the mask of righteousness, where people gather not to connect but to confirm their shared judgments of those who are not like them. This is collective ego, the cult-of-the-self scaled up to group size, still fundamentally about defending position rather than opening to connection.

Real community happens in a different place entirely—not in the certainty of our positions but in the humility of the Great Mystery, in the recognition that none of us has all the answers, that control is an illusion, that something larger than our individual or collective understanding holds us all.

I invite you read my latest journal entry on trustworthiness and what it takes to hold this in community. We're truly in this together. Let's keep looking for how to lift one another up.

11/24/2025

Can I trust you? So many privileged people these days talk about "feeling safe" as if safety is an external condition, not an internal state. There is a disease of distrust in others, definitely a result of a consumer-motivated culture where one constantly wonders: what are you trying to sell me? We scan every interaction for the transaction hidden beneath it, the angle, the manipulation. We've become expert threat-assessors, building elaborate systems to protect ourselves from being fooled, used, or disappointed.
But rarely does someone ask the question of themselves: Am I trustworthy?
This reversal—from defensive evaluation to radical self-examination—is where the real work of trust begins. And it requires something our culture has almost entirely abandoned: radical self-responsibility. Read more: https://wix.to/AdDaWb2

10/11/2025

Dear friend, teacher, mentor Thomas Steininger
You made a huge impact in our lives, changing the way I we see the world, the space, the intelligence that lives in the field all around us. From the fire ceremonies at Lake Atitlan, it was there we met in 2014, to many years, retreats, dialogues, conversations, meditations from then until now - a deep bow to all you brought and made alive for so many of us. We are truly in this together Thomas. I feel your presence here, I feel your prayers and strength, your profound trust in life. Your curiosity, the questions that got right to the point, creating that immediate shift in consciousness. I love you now and am convinced you’ll continue to visit and inform us in your new form. A bow to to your indomitable partner wife Elizabeth Debold.

10/09/2025

We're living through a collective autoimmune crisis—attacking parts of our own social body as if they were foreign invaders. We find these patterns extending way beyond our political divisions, even into our relationship with ecological diversity. "Invasive species, foreign invaders, native purity....research increasingly reveals the limits of this black and white thinking.
Traditional medicine offers a roadmap: reduce inflammatory triggers, rebuild resilience, practice discernment over reactivity. From regulating our nervous systems with daily breathwork to having genuine conversations across difference, the medicine our times require isn't heroic gestures but sustained daily practices that teach us to recognize ourselves again—individually and collectively." Learn what you can do for an individual autoimmune process and our societal one. . https://www.thesourceforhealing.com/post/the-autoimmune-paradox-individual-and-collective-patterns-of-self-attack

10/09/2025

In Qi Gong practice, we cultivate wildness inside the body. We become the lion, sinking low and powerful. We become the crane, rising on one leg, wings spread in perfect balance. We become the mountain, rooted and strong, or the dragon, playful and quick. This is not metaphor. This is remembering—calling forth the animals that live in our cells, in our evolutionary memory, in our bones.

The wildness is not out there, separate from us. It is what we are made of.

But you forget. God, how you forget. You spend your days in rooms with controlled temperatures and artificial light. You drive on paved roads. You buy meat wrapped in plastic. You lose touch with fire as a living presence, with water as a spiritual being, with the earth as the body of your oldest ancestor.

The indigenous traditions I have been honored to learn from—Diné, Lakota, Nahuatl—speak of this forgetting as a kind of illness. When we stop recognizing our relatives in the more-than-human world, when we stop hearing their voices, we become orphaned. Alone in a way humans were never meant to be alone.

And perhaps this is what Thoreau meant by quiet desperation. Not that our lives are bad, but that we have lost the conversation. We have stopped tracking. We have forgotten that we are being tracked in return—that the Mystery is paying attention to us, leaving signs, waiting for us to notice.

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10/01/2025

Losing the track: On quiet desperation and finding our way back to wonder. I’ve been trying for weeks to step into what I’ve wanted to share, to write, to say about my time in Kruger National Park, what pulled me there and what happened there and how it’s been since I’ve come home. Writing this has moved me to tears as I'm continuing to reorient myself, to find myself in the midst of all that is. This is the best way I could express myself to what’s moving on the inside for me. 🌍✨ Read more about it here: https://wix.to/MzWtBgD