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    In these uncertain times so riddled with upheaval and suffering, we need way more peace, love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, meditation, mindfulness, and laughter. It's time to heal ancient wounds, release our pain, embrace our global family and start living out loud.

    October 18, 2022
    Around the first of October, Mr D and I packed up a small suitcase and headed for the Sedona...
    This mantra has been quite the journey for someone who grew up in a home of silent desperation...
    October 1, 2022 · 2
    A very young, very wise doctor of Eastern Medicine was explaining the acupuncture treatment he...
    Is it really? I would probably reframe that as "Rejection is redirection." But maybe those two...
    September 17, 2022 · 4
    It's possible that I went through times of feeling alone and unloved and abandoned and lost,...
    September 9, 2022 · 1
    And so it came to pass, finally finally, that Linda (who flew all the way from Denver just for...
    September 2, 2022 · 2
    Today's mantra is another one I have loved and believed in for a very long time. I have no doubts...
    August 30, 2022
    My friend Sara introduced me to davidji's "Deep Healing" meditation on Insight Timer a couple of...
    August 26, 2022 · 1
    Today's mantra is right after my own heart. If there's anything I'm really really good at doing,...
    For me, today's mantra is absolute truth. I've lived it for way too long—floating on the high...
    I'm all about this mantra and yet in the daily grind of life, the power of it slips my mind. I...
    July 30, 2022
    I have no words to say how much I love this mantra, right up there with: "I can outlast this...
    Returning home from my first ever colon hydrotherapy treatment at a place called Love My Colon, I...
    October 30, 2021
    My mother's side of the family had an incredibly dominant, accomplished patriarch who believed...
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  • “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with

    your one wild and precious life?”

    -Mary OliveR

  • The voice behind the blog

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    I've been called a free spirit,

    a piece of work, a living cartoon, clean freak, space cadet, earth angel, dizzy bitch and the Queen of Shit. All said by people who love me—the last one footnoted as “not in that moment.” Thanks to eight years of parochial school, I have a Master’s in Guilt and a Ph.D. in Shame. The word Self was always followed by "ish" and never by the word "care." Yet there’s more.

     

    The cultural collective and my beloved mother made sure I was a Co-Dependent Black Belt with a raging people-pleasing addiction. Maybe that’s like saying you’re from California and also from Los Angeles.

    My first attempt to break away from the past was radical rebellion,

    a tack that generated colorful stories but no forward motion toward health, wholeness and peace. Anything headed in the wrong direction at 100 mph eventually crashes, at which point I realized the past still had me by the short hairs. And that’s where the spiritual path began, the long and winding road back to Me.

     

    Not long ago I decided to apply for TSA Pre early boarding status. When I told my husband they wanted certified legal documents of every name change, he lowered his head, looked over his glasses and said dryly, “Well my dear, for you that’s been quite the journey. You even made one up along the way.” Indeed, it has been quite the journey. And now it’s time to start sharing the stories.

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