Being Enough
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Addiction is NOT a Disease
Looking closely at myself, my patients, our families, I found the common thread: narratives of abandonment and unspeakable childhood abuse buried beyond active recollection. Continue reading
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Trusting Life’s Changes:
Lessons from Nature’s Cycles By Louise Sutherland-Hoyt I wrote this piece long before sharing it. At the time, it needed to live quietly, still unfolding in me. Spring has a way of asking for emergence before everything is ready, and I knew this reflection required a longer season of trust. So I let it rest—through… Continue reading
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Rockets, Family, old Friends
Time away has a way of burnishing memory. It polishes what matters and lets the rest fall off like sand. Continue reading
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The Scent of a Lilac
When Old Photographs Fall A forgotten photograph slid from the pages of an old, dog-eared book.Its edges were soft with use, its colors yellowed, thinned by time.It landed quietly in my lap, and with it, the echo of laughter, warmth, a life that once felt certain. LS-H Many losses arrive this way—without announcement.They seem to… Continue reading
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A Fleet of Faith
Together, we are on the Buddhist raft, Tristan’s skiff, Moses’ river basket, and Charon’s ferry across the river Styx.We are with Jesus in the boat on the lake from which he taught.And we are on the Wellerman’s Barque.We are going somewhere, even though it feels like we have run aground.Just remember that so long as… Continue reading
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Folding a Fitted Sheet
It Takes a High Form of Mindful Presence There are people who claim they can fold a fitted sheet into a perfect square. I don’t trust them. The rest of us stand there holding a sack of elastic and defiance, trying to remember which corner goes where, wondering how something so ordinary can so reliably… Continue reading
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Finding Balance: Service Without Sacrifice
For Grama, service had a shape. It was the kind practiced in AA. This means helping another only when asked. It involves speaking from experience rather than instruction. Continue reading
