There is medicine in the mountains that cannot be found anywhere else. 

I know that sounds like something you might read on a wooden sign hanging in a gift shop, but the older I get, the more I find it to be true.

Whenever life begins to feel loud, complicated, or heavy, I find myself pulled toward the mountains. Not because they solve my problems or offer answers. But because they remind me of something I tend to forget in the chaos of life.

I believe something very important about people. I believe that deep down, most of us truly want to be kind. We want to love and be loved. We want to follow what lights us up inside, and we want to cheer for and support others as they find and follow their own light.

This time of year has a way of pressing the fast-forward button on our lives. There are invitations to accept, traditions to uphold, gifts to buy, meals to plan, moments we’re told are magical and therefore must not be missed. We hurry through our days like well-intentioned multitasking phenes, convinced that if we can just do it all, we will arrive at some shimmering finish line called fulfillment.

Rooted in the concept of universal lifeforce energy, Reiki is an ancient Japanese practice of energy healing. It is widely used today as a complementary healing practice to support emotional well-being, stress reduction, and overall quality of life. Through both personal accounts and theoretical frameworks offered by many practitioners, Reiki is emerging as a pivotal therapeutic modality that blends experience, empowerment, and holistic healing.

It’s the summer solstice. Today you pointed and asked me about bees so we watched the bees. They were busily collecting pollen from a beautiful flowering bush.

A teacher recently invited me to ask myself, “What do I want in this season of my life?”

I used to be a hard-core skeptic. I believed I had to see, feel, or experience something firsthand before I could believe it was real.