This morning, elephant journal published one of my articles, The World Needs More Healers—Not More Flakes, and it is an Editors Pick of The Week!
Here is an excerpt from The World Needs More Healers—Not More Flakes.:
I don’t know how this came to be, but somehow the new age community thinks that one has to be a flake in order to be a healer.
"I can tell you with complete certainty one can be a healer, shaman, teacher, or Reiki Master without being a flake.
The shift toward flakiness is curious. I am grateful that the dogmatic version of spirituality and religion has expanded and shifted. We have included love and joy and ...
It's about time we have some conversation about having racial conversation together. It is beginning to feel like it is getting harder and harder for us to share honestly about sensitive issues like race, culture and religion, just to name a few. How did we get here? In the spirit of making everybody feel safe, have we made everyone feel unsafe?
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It is both inspiring and somewhat comical to be putting your focus in the same place as the White House. Pres. Obama and VP Biden have just released a new PSA as part of their, 1 is 2 Many campaign, including famous male actors, The President and Vice President themselves supporting and standing against sexual assault and violence towards women. It is great to see famous men standing up for women. But I can't lie; the first thing that came to my mind was "It's about time!"
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