The Cosmic Pen

for healers: this article introduces basic ideas about soul retrieval, a powerful healing approach you may wish to learn to facilitate and include in your body of work. for everyone: if you've ever had a hard life experience, soul retrieval may be something to get curious about for your own…

hi lovely folks! this blog article is a list of ‘healings you might learn or receive here’… and it is...and isn't...helpful. that’s because I can rattle off lists of healing modalities the whole day long, and although that might sound fancy, it may not actually help you if you're in…

I hear a lot of folks interchange ‘ritual’ and ‘ceremony.’ for me and the dreaming otter, they’re actually two really different things. ritual is something you do again and again in the same way to achieve a desired result (yoga to invite union of mind/body/spirit, reiki to invite relaxation/miracle healing,…

the basic premise of ‘energy extraction’ is this: energy that doesn’t belong affects your ‘spiritual immune system’ (yes, you have one of those) and that can compromise you. things that can compromise your spiritual immune might be: a rough thing happens, an altercation, illness, life event that’s painful and hard,…

the relationships we keep with us affect our lives in powerful ways: as you look at how you've orchestrated your life as a healer, helper, leader, or teacher, it's of benefit to explore where you're putting your precious time and lifeforce in relationship. after all, the friends, family, colleagues, students,…

in part 1 of this article, you engaged the ‘elevator exercise,’ where you imagined 8 hours in an elevator with someone in your life you love spending time with, and someone in your world who feels challenging.  hopefully, you then calendared a gentle way to either ‘prune’ or ‘nourish’ the…

as I'm writing this post, the air is crisp and cool here in the redwoods, with crimson and gold leaves falling like gentle rain to the earth. I’m hearing from some of you that first snow is falling, and that others are drinking in radiant desert sunbeams...wherever you are planetside,…

all of my work is based in these sweet truths - they are the strong foundation that allow me to support wonderful folks in creating and living magical lives: magic is real, and you can miss it when you move at a fast, contemporary pace.  slowing down allows the loving…

there are lots of types of sensitives here planetside.  here at the dreaming otter, we believe that those of us courageous enough to incarnate in our evolutionary times (and those who find their way here) might identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), intuitive, starseed, or empath. these terms overlap…

“do you check your smart phone before you pee in the morning, or while you are peeing?” ​ ~the social dilemma   I​ think about that question a lot. then ​I think about the thousands of folks who have come for healing sessions because they feel so ratcheted up all…