“Travel far enough, you meet yourself,” the author David Mitchell writes in his novel Cloud Atlas. I’m inclined to agree. Discovering lands and cultures hitherto unknown to me draws out aspects of myself I never knew existed. The same could be said of my Buddhist...

“The body always leads us home… if we’re willing to listen.” For over a decade, I lived in a body that tried to tell me something I wasn’t ready to hear. But eventually, it got louder—loud enough that I could no longer ignore the message. It started with...

‘To keep observing the nature of our thoughts generates a mind emptied of Dukkha, and so, is the very best knowledge there is. Through it we gain familiarity with the realization or awareness of emptiness.’ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~Kahlil Gibran There are two versions of me. There’s the one I am now—the grounded, present woman who holds space for others, who guides people toward healing, who...