Healing Journey

Alopecia
First, since it’s noticeable, I have alopecia totalis. People wonder. I want you to know, I am exceptionally healthy, just bald. Truly, being bald has been a gift. Yes, it knocked me to my knees in the beginning. Then I experienced a feeling of surrender which continues to gift me with the deepest love of all: loving myself just as I am. As Whitney Houston and George Benson sang, “Loving yourself is the greatest Love of all.”

Meditation and Therapy
My spiritual/therapeutic path of healing began when I was 30 years old and first lost my hair. That’s when I started a meditation practice, began learning about Buddhism and started to work with a wonderful Buddhist therapist.

Diamond Heart
About 20 years ago, I went to Thanksgiving dinner with a new group of people. I had never been to a social gathering where every single person was so genuinely authentic. It was glorious! They were Diamond Heart students and I was immediately intrigued and began following this practice.

Deep Practice
In the past year, I went to Burma for a time of deep and focused meditation. After sitting for six hours a day for a solid month, I had a profound realization about how relentless my self-attacks were. In short, this was a game-changer. It led to a new sense of integration.

Integration
Since my time in Burma, all of my life experiences coalesced into the work I offer others. I have so much gratitude and respect for my primary teachers: Hameed Ali, Adyashanti, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Kathy Altman and Lori Saltzman, and Colleen West. I bow to them.

“A correct relationship to your self is primary, for from it flow all possible right relationships with others and the Divine.”
~ Ralph Blum, The Book of Runes