The current socio-political climate in the US, and much of the world, is such that we all have work to do to understand our relationship to differences in personal identity. Doing awakening work today requires us to lean in to how we embody our lived e …
Category: Essay Page – Embodiment
Paradox and the Core Wound
A talk from an online sitting, March 2018 One definition of a paradox is that it is something which seems contradictory, unbelievable or absurd but that may be true in fact, particularly when looked at from a different level. One thing I’ve always love …
Daring and Perseverance
A talk from an online sitting, January 2018 Daring and Perseverance is one of the “Four Alchemical Ingredients” described in the Trillium awakening orientation course. The other three are Transmission, Greenlighting and Radical Embrace. I started exp …
Radical Embrace and being in the ‘here and now’
A talk from an online sitting, November 2017 “The paradox of the here and now” was the title of a talk I gave recently with a colleague who works in the field of experiential learning. The paradox referred to was this. To be truly present to our imm …
The Privilege to Rest in Being
It’s such a blessing to have a free day, a day in which the movement of Being is unfettered and flowing. Today has been just such a day, off from work, a morning unscheduled. I woke at 7:30 to the bright cold, laid and lit a fire, meditated, ate. I spl …
Exit 0: Coming to the End of Suffering
New Jersey, where I grew up, is bisected north to south by two major highways, the Garden State Parkway and the Turnpike. If you’re a South Jersey Girl, like me, they take you home from metropolitan environs of New York to the rural, marshy farmlands o …
Hillary on The Rot
An interview by Ted for Issue #3 of Mutuality Matters. What’s the Rot about from your perspective? The willingness to start to face into what you’ve been running from your whole life – because there are no more options. You’ve tried everything you coul …
What is the Embodiment in Trillium Awakening?
Note: this essay was written when Trillium Awakening was still Waking Down in Mutuality. For more info on our history go to: https://www.trilliumawakening.org/history/ In this essay “Down” = “Embodiment” To me, Down is about feeling our connection to l …
Translating Spirituality for Traumatized People
I often feel the need to “translate” spiritual teachings so that they will be understood by people who have suffered trauma: “When we rest in the unconditioned mind, we are healed.” The emotional body and the autonomic nervous system might or might not …
Spirituality and Trauma
Our Divinely Human Animal Nature: Healing Trauma through Embodied Awakening and Somatic Experiencing In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that trauma resolution must include the body as an essential part of the healing process. In Somatic …