Root & Ritual

  • 🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility

    Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… Continue reading

    🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility

  • 🌿 The Sacred Art of Slowing Down

    A Saturday Reflection on Rest for the Nervous System There are days when the body doesn’t ask for more healing — it asks for less doing.When the nervous system hums like an overworked instrument, the music of the soul can’t… Continue reading

    🌿 The Sacred Art of Slowing Down

  • Navigating Self-Discovery: Lessons from the River

    Let’s honor the truth of the in-between—the sacred liminality of choosing yourself while still unlearning the reflex to abandon yourself. For the one who used to call it devotion when it was really self-erasure. Mid-River Mercy: Choosing Myself While Still… Continue reading

    Navigating Self-Discovery: Lessons from the River

  • A deeply layered ache

    …a tender, deeply layered ache I am holding. My reaction is not just about a forgotten date—it’s about what that date symbolizes. Birthdays, especially of our children, are etched into us not just as facts, but as thresholds of love,… Continue reading

    A deeply layered ache