Shamanism

Stop the fearing. Shut off the news. Turn off social media.

I did not grow up consciously knowing what I know now or doing what I do today. We all carry the innate ability to heal…

When we swim upstream against the natural rhythms and cycles of the Universe - against what is asking to move, die, or transform - we create unnecessary chaos. Resistance doesn’t stop change...It only makes it harsher.

Here is the hard truth many avoid: The thinking, beliefs, and behaviors that created the problems of today cannot be the same ones that create something new.

But what does it say about us when we continuously accept the scraps of life, love, and energy?

The truth is; we can’t go back and change what happened. This is not new information. So why do we keep dragging the past into the present? Why do we hold onto old hurts like anchors?

I hold space for the warriors who enter my life, not as a place for them to stay, but as a place for them to remember. A place where the wandering Ronin can rest, recalibrate, and find his way back to the truth of his heart. Back to the fire he thought he lost. Back to the strength he feared had been fractured beyond repair.

It is often difficult to define me. To place me neatly into a category that makes “normal” sense to this linear world. When people ask, “So, what do you do?”  I often chuckle, not out of confusion but out of good humor - because, truly, that is a good question. What do I “do”? When I think back to childhood, I remember how often adults asked that same question in a different form: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer then, and still now, is honest - I don’t kn

But somewhere along the way, the world decides it needs to shape us - to make sense of us, to fit us neatly into boxes so it can teach, manage, and explain what it doesn’t understand.

To go against nature is to go against ourselves. For the same current that turns seed to tree flows through our very veins.

We will not always agree. Nor should we. Diversity of thought and being is part of the beauty - and the ache - of being human. But what we can do is make space within our quiet mornings to feel the weight of our shared humanity. To allow collective grief, regret, guilt, and sorrow to flow through us rather than calcify within us.

There are moments when life brings us to our knees in ways we never anticipated. For me, it came on an ordinary evening - one of those nights when nothing dramatic was happening, yet everything inside me felt like it was silently collapsing. I remember standing in my kitchen, staring at a cup of tea I had no appetite for, feeling utterly emptied out. The things that once lit my spirit had dimmed.

We need defenders and protectors. We need nurturers and healers. Just as much as we need shelter and structure. No more, no less than we need food and water.

We often imagine the warrior’s journey as one of blood, sweat, and sacrifice—clashing swords, broken shields, relentless battles. But the truest battles rarely take place on battlefields. They happen inside our hearts. And perhaps the greatest fight any of us will ever face is the fight to be unconditionally loved.