Dear Friends, Thank you for all your help and support. This letter comes as I celebrate thirty-six years in the work. As you can see by my calendar, helping people to heal from trauma and mentoring healers has continued with many wonderful teaching opportunities. This is where most of my time and energy goes each […]
Dear Friends, Another busy year is finishing up with a last work trip and a writing retreat. As you can see by my calendar this 35 th year in the work has been busy. Helping people to heal from trauma and mentoring healers has continued with wonderful teaching opportunities. While there are no prisons or […]
Dear Friends, This annual letter shares news of my work travels this past year. It’s also a reminder that I live primarily by gifts. Some of you have already been so kind to send a Fall gift and I am especially grateful for this. Working mainly by invitation and living mostly by gifts is a […]
Dear Friends, There is a burden to compassionate work and it is simply this – it will break your heart and we must let this happen. We must surrender and melt until all boundaries are gone and we come to know that we really and truly are all part of one another. The pain and […]
Dear Friends, I am preparing for my last work trips of 2015 as I write this. It’s been a busy and wonderful year as my calendar shows- a dozen trips to work in 8 states and provinces to work with Congolese torture survivors, people with AIDS, abuse survivors, among other life- wounded people. Plus I’ve […]
Dear Friends, Good work continues and I am well used still, after all these years. I have just returned from work with tortured refugees in North Carolina, a stop in Texas for final edits on my 2nd book due out next month, and soon will teach near Boston. (new book – How Far Have You […]
Dear Friends, Thirty years ago I sent a letter to 100 Friends to say I was providing massage to people with AIDS and needed financial support for the work. Half of those people said – Yes! I had already been working with several women rape survivors and AIDS was a new work. I was in […]
Dear Friends, Thank you for all your good care and strong support over 2013. It’s been a very full year. I’ve been working with several people – helping some to live, helping some to die. I’ve traveled the country and worked with groups in 10 states. I’ve been teaching massage, energy work, healing from trauma, avoiding burnout, among other […]
Dear Friends, A new adventure has taken me. My years are full of invitations to teach and touch. Once in a while the schedule gets thin and I know some new arrangement is being made. A light schedule in 1990 allowed me rest at Pendle Hill. In 2008 I was able to celebrate 25 years […]
Dear Friends, I’ve recently returned from my final travel work for the year. I taught in 7 states to 14 groups. It’s been a wonderful time of teaching healing from trauma, avoiding burnout for caregivers, and updates on American torture and the Quaker work to end it. This is my 30th year of traveling and teaching as a […]