Recently, I went in for a Reiki and energy healing session. During our time together, the practitioner told me something I had never heard before. She said I had grown a new root chakra. Now, I have been on this spiritual journey long enough to know that sometimes things come up that make you stop and think. This was certainly one of them. As we continued talking, the conversation shifted to my ability to move between the light and the dark with ease. I told her something that I have come to...

There was a time when I resented the teenager I used to be. I resented her for not following her dreams. I was angry with her for not standing up for herself. For allowing other people to make decisions about her life. For being so desperate to be loved and accepted that she slowly gave pieces of herself away. Then there was the twenty-something version of me. I carried suitcases full of shame for her. The drugs. The drinking. The cheating. The overeating. The relationships. The choices she...

I started writing my book more than twenty years ago. Back then, I thought I was ready to tell my story. But when I look back at what I wrote, I realize I was still stuck in blame. I could tell you what happened to me. I could tell you who hurt me and what they did. But I hadn't healed enough to understand how those experiences had shaped me, or how I continued carrying them into my own life. Over the next twenty years, life took me down paths I never could have imagined. There were divorces....