The Medicine We Carry for Each Other
This summer and into early fall, I was in it. Really in it.
The collective divisiveness we’re all feeling is no small thing—it brought me to my knees.
I found myself retreating inward, craving solitude and deep reflection. Yet even in my hermit season, there was a quiet, persistent whisper: we heal in community.
I mustered the energy to connect with a few dear friends and host a retreat. But even after the kids went back to school, the hermit in me lingered. Then, one Sunday night, I joined a meditation on collective healing—a Satsang (a truth circle) and prayer gathering for a high school friend who was very ill (and has since passed).
Three hours of meditation, truth-telling, and prayer cracked open my shell, briefly. But soon enough, the inward pull returned. It took all I had to gather the energy to hold another retreat, this time in Sedona.
What happened there was life-changing.
We sang, danced, chanted, prayed, practiced yoga and breathwork, played pickleball, cooked, hiked, and—most importantly—allowed ourselves to just be.
In that presence, in that being, we stepped out of duality and into flow, oneness, higher consciousness.
What I Remembered
We need each other.
We need moments that lift us out of the noise and illusion of separation, because the divide we see in the world right now is not real.
If you trace both sides of any argument or ideology back to its root, you’ll find the same source: fear.
Seriously—both sides.
The women at the retreat held different beliefs, but none of that mattered. The divide never even came up. We were simply there, present, connected, human.
Our hearts, our listening, our love—these are the antidotes to fear and separation.
Each of us carries medicine for the collective.
Ways to Weave the World Back Together
If you’re feeling that same pull, here are a few gentle ways to reconnect and help restore wholeness:
🤎Find a practice that connects you to higher consciousness—Source, God, the Divine, your Higher Self.
🤎Send a note or voice memo of gratitude to a friend who’s been on your mind.
🤎Notice when you’re in duality. You can still hold your beliefs; just don’t let them harden your heart or dehumanize others.
🤎Volunteer an hour this month at a local shelter, food bank, or community garden.
🤎Gather a few souls for a prayer or meditation circle, even virtually.
🤎Walk in nature with someone who simply needs space to be heard.
And if you need support, reach out. It’s my belief that when our collective vibration reaches critical mass, we’ll literally be living in a new world—one rooted in oneness rather than division.
We need you for that.
Small actions ripple outward in powerful ways.
An Invitation
If your heart is craving connection, expansion, and deep integration, I invite you to join me for my upcoming Soul Circle-8 week Immersion
These sacred spaces are where we return to truth together—through breath, movement, and presence.
Come home to yourself.
Remember that you are never alone.
Visit Soul Song to explore upcoming gatherings and offerings.