When my life slowly, then suddenly, collapsed… I realized something greater than myself was dying to emerge.
My health, career, marriage, and social life were all dying. It was as if my once fertile body, home, relationships, work, and sense of self were drying up. The river of life had changed course, and the death and burial of my old life was underway.
At first, all I could do was lay on the Earth — my body trembling as waves of emotion passed through. There was nothing to do but give myself over to the tears. I plummeted into a well of grief, and simultaneously experienced an extraordinary grace I knew to be more true than the pain.
What unfolded over the next twelve months brought me a deep embodied wisdom — a metamorphosis that included a changing of my name, my body, my home, and how I relate. With twenty years as a seasoned healer and teacher, I had healed broken bones, abusive relationships, addictions and attachments in myself. But this was something far greater: the climactic end of an era, and the dawn of a new human archetype.
