by Alexandra Hepburn | Oct 24, 2023 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Oct 2, 2023 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
The Healing Time Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin, my bones, those coded messages that send me down the wrong street...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Sep 6, 2023 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
If you ever found yourself as a child terrified and alone in an unfamiliar dark space… if you were ever lost outdoors on a dark night when the other kids had run off and left you far behind … if your mother died and left you or you were really sick and in quarantine...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Jul 22, 2023 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
What is Presence? If you look up a definition of “presence,” you will find something obvious along the lines of “the state or condition of being present.” And “being present” is “the state of existing or occurring now.” If we are content with that … end of...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Jul 9, 2023 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
“Home” is such a powerful and evocative word – in the realm of the psyche, and in spirituality and religion as well. Before you read any further, I invite you to sit with this word for a few moments: what memories, feelings, sensations, or images does it evoke...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Jun 25, 2023 | Spiritual Guidance
“Life is a journey.” A familiar metaphor. Whatever the external features, I see this as essentially a journey of meaning-making. The meanings that we find in life begin with our earliest experiences. Even before we have language, we might say there are implicit...
