Before Mother’s Day became a holiday of brunches, greeting cards, and flower deliveries, it was something much more tender. It...

• forgiveness
• freeing yourself
• healing childhood trauma
• mothering

As an intern, I worked in a detox facility in Portland, treating mainly heroin addicts. Foul moods were common, but...

• acupuncture for addiction
• Mindfulness
• quit smoking
• quitting addictions
• quitting smoking

20 years ago I began an apprenticeship in the Five Element style of acupuncture – a form of healing based...

I’ve always been interested in magic. Maybe it has something to do with growing up in and around Salem, with...

While giving a massage the other day, I was thinking about how essential it is to have our bodies touched....

When our book Rituals for Transformation was first published, we had an online discussion group where users could chat about...

When I was 16 and had recently become a vegetarian, I saw a bumper sticker that read: IF WE’RE NOT...

I discovered skateboarding as a young teenager and I was okay at it, but I was much too protective of...