The metaphor that comes to me about my work is that of being a doula for bringing new ways of being into the world. When you’re giving birth, it’s really useful to be supported by someone who understands the pain, who gets it that despite having...
Here’s another Island story. When I moved to Vashon, I had no idea it would shift my understanding of ‘gardening’ from something about seedlings and weeds to something more about trees and tractors. In the woods, gardening means cutting away what’s dead, or sickly, or...
Every client I work with comes to me because they want change: something they want to experience is missing, or something they don’t want to experience keeps happening. Everybody wants change. Even those of us who want things to stay just as they are, are...