I was in my early 40s before I realized that I was allowed to have boundaries. Since then, I’ve worked hard to figure them out.

I was featured in a Redfin article about using crystals to decorate your home. Check out my suggestion, as well as those from others who use crystals as part of their practice!

This winter is a rare gift. Don’t miss out on this unique chance to be fully present with yourself, to connect with yourself, and to love yourself more deeply than ever before—it is the perfect catalyst for deep healing.

This is the center of your identity, your personality, your ego, and your mental processing and discernment. Within this chakra is also your self-esteem and sense of self-worth.

While the root connects us to our origins and to our body in a primal way, the sacrum connects us outward to other relationships.

Your root chakra, or muladhara in Sanskrit, connects you to the earth. It is the location of your feeling of safety and security, of your basic needs, of your family connections, and of your feeling at home in your body and in present time and space.

Self-effacement is self-destruction. Being small is being toxic in your own life. Being anything other than who you really are gives permission to other people to continue to control other people (and you!) with their expectations. Be all-the-way-you.

I work with a lot of clients who struggle with anxiety, and I have battled it myself since I was a kid. For the last 10+ years, I have tried many different ways to manage my anxiety, but a few have worked so well that I recommend them to my clients.

Beginning a meditation practice can be very challenging, though, and it is very common for those new to meditating to question whether they are doing it right and, in general, to over-think their practice.

Clear quartz is probably the easiest stone to identify for the amateur enthusiast, or even for someone utterly disinterested: its clarity and shape make it distinctive among common stones.

Most of my clients are a little nervous when they step into their first Reiki session. Without a prescribed, linear process and predictable outcome, why do people choose Reiki as a way to heal themselves?

We put off mending our relationship with ourself much longer than that with any other person because there don’t appear to be immediate, external consequences.

I am very proud of how hard I've worked, and I am always eager to do more work because I know I'm not yet done.

I think I was born anxious. My family likes to tell stories about how I was too scared to sleep during the annual fire prevention week when I was in elementary school. Every year, as I learned about new hazards and survival strategies, I begged my parents to cooperate with my plans and assuage my fears.

I was listening to a recording by Sarah Blondin on Insight Timer earlier this week, and she asked a question that hit me so deeply that I've not been able to get it out of my head since: How can we quiet our incessant seeking?

I have realized that I can love my body even if I can't yet accept or appreciate it fully.

There are lots of ways to choose stones, all of which center on your gut, your intuition, or your guidance. Sometimes something will jump out at you, drawing your attention or catching your eye. It might be one you think looks pretty, interesting, or mesmerizing. The best way to select stones is to go with what calls to you.

Crystals of all kinds absorb energy from the environment they’re in and from the people who use them. It is important to clear (or cleanse) your stones periodically to release these energies that don’t belong to them. The frequency with which you should cleanse them depends on how you are using them.