Seven days and nights walking, fasting, singing, praying alone can’t not change you! I gained a clear life’s purpose: Earth–Birth–Death. It became my mission, my mantra that guided me for 40 years in these ways…

My time in the intention circle and on the land became about stepping into my adulthood in a clean way, without blame, grandiosity, or dominating others….

It was truly a threshold crossing for me. A completion and marking of the closing of my identity in this first half of my life, my former identity as a therapist and all the ways I engaged in that work and a crossing into the unknown of what was next. It lives in me as such a clear marking of that transition…

I’ve done so much in my life to heal and to seek – vision fasting, conscious dance, meditation, enneagram work, somatic therapy, traditional therapy… Vision fasts have been one of the most powerful of all. The two fasts I have done are references for how I know myself and my connection to all things….