05/29/2026
Love is the most profound medicine we will ever encounter.
Not because it is gentle or easy, but because love has the power to return us to what is true and whole. To open what has been closed. To soften what has been defended. To call home the parts of ourselves we once believed we had to abandon in order to survive.
This weekend on Palomar Mountain, we gathered for the work of soul retrieval.
We came to reclaim the parts of ourselves that had been lost, hidden, forgotten, or given away. To reclaim our power. Our joy. Our beauty. Our belonging. Our birthright of love.
And love was everywhere.
In the vulnerability of each person willing to be seen. In the depth of connection that formed within the group. In the way each person arrived as both student and teacher, carrying exactly what was needed for the circle.
We felt love In the oak, cedar, and sequoia trees that held us.
In the waters flowing on the land.
In the breath of the mountain air.
In the vastness of the views that reminded us to look beyond the edges of our own lives.
And in the hawks, who came again and again as guides of vision.
They helped us rise above the smallness of the personal self and see more clearly: our healing is never only for us. Our lives are woven into the lives of others, into the Earth, into the generations still to come.
To reclaim our power is not to turn more deeply inward in self-importance. It is to become capable of loving more fully. To become responsible for what we now know. To carry what the plants, the land, and the spirits have shown us into the way we live each moment.
We left holding a vision in our hearts of love. A vision of human beings remembering their place within the living world, having known that remembrance deeply through this experience together. A vision of what becomes possible when we no longer abandon ourselves, and from that wholeness, no longer abandon one another or the Earth.
My heart is so full from this weekend. So expanded. So humbled by the love that moved through this circle and by the beauty of Palomar Mountain, who held us so powerfully in this work.
May the love we reclaimed move through and far beyond our own lives ❤️❤️❤️