Douglas fishing at the Grey's River in Wyoming. I hear this often with the women I’m in relationship with and I absolutely recognize this within myself. One’s human nature to catch onto a thought and allow it to spin us out into every direction. Where this plays in the most with the loss of a child are in the catching of thoughts that make one believe there might have been something that could have been done to change the outcome. Maybe there could have been, yet it does not

Today is the day is what I keep hearing within myself. There is another healer on the island whom I deeply desire to connect with and we have spoken briefly over the phone several months ago, yet it’s time now. I will reach out and see if we can meet one another over coffee or tea. We are currently in a potent portal of taking courageous steps towards living into our most empowered and authentic lives. I trust that this portal is always available to us. I am at a crossroads w

Lahaina’s treasured and historic banyan tree that has been a much beloved landmark for 150 years, standing 60-feet tall and spanning 1.94 acres in length has been in shock and a “coma” according to the volunteer arborists who are trying to save her after the devastating fire of August 8th on Maui that decimated Lahaina. She is the largest banyan tree in the U.S. and has been known as the “heartbeat of Lahaina Town.” Immediately following the fire a team of experts came togeth

(Artwork by Saundra Shanti) https://www.saundrashanti.com/about-saundra Have we forgotten this superpower that we innately possess? A straight wire to heaven is what my mom used to refer to it as. It matters not what we call it, yet it exists for each of us. A prevailing belief that I can have and I’ve heard it too from others is when a sense of feeling invisible and or abandoned by the spirit world is residing within. This is simply not possible and my guides have even felt

I was listening to a podcast not long ago that I enjoy and heard a favorite greeting the mother/daughter co-hosts often say to one another. “How does it feel being you today?” Having the opportunity to try this with one of the women I’m mentoring felt pivotal. When I posed the question, she paused and replied, “so, so.” I sat quietly with that for a moment and asked if she could say more? I understand how it feels for me to be so, so, yet I desire to understand how it feels f

“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation: it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” Michael J. Fox My experimenting and practicing acceptance has covered a wide swath. What I am noticing about myself is that when I actually use the two words, “I accept” and then place afterward the person, situation, challenge that I am enmeshed within, something within me has been softening, shifting and feels less raw and edgy. My former w