Backbends are one of the best ways I know to touch into body, breath, emotions, and spirit. They are also my number 1 medicine when it comes to feeling integrated, regulated, present, and at home in my own skin and my own mind.

Over the course of a day, every…

September 16th, 2021, I sent my dad an email. Looking in from outside, the morning of sending would have seemed random. The email had been sitting in my draft folder for weeks. The drafting itself took decades.

Only recently had the words found their way onto the page. Only upon…

Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Minimalist, Sober, Queer

Hey, I’m Dana. I’m 46, sober, queer, and prefer more time alone than anyone I know.

Heck, I’m married but choose to live alone, in a one-room cabin surrounded by woods and birdsongs on lovely Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. …

Addiction, recovery, sobriety, eating disorders, family systems, relationships, spirituality. Excerpts from a book in progress.

Part of my radical undoing of old agreements and radical stepping out of prefab stories is choosing sobriety. I mean sobriety from alcohol, yes, but also sobriety in an expansive, ever-evolving sense.

Sobriety that’s about…

It’s Sunday here. Just before 9am — a late start for me, when it comes to writing.

I slept in, rose naturally with the spreading light, and opened my eyes to a view full of fog and trees. …

The brain is an enchanted place. One seemingly essential to “self” yet otherworldly in its invisible, enigmatic workings.

Seeking to expose its secrets and mysteries, the shapers of last century’s biomedical brain paradigm set out to organize them with fixed lines and segmented spaces.

They imagined a static, standardized, separate…

Did you know your brain is plastic? Not that kind of plastic! (Though the way things are going…)

Neuroscientists have proven that our brains are always changing. They are, in effect, plastic until the day we die. “Neuroplasticity” encompasses not just function, but the very structure of our B spot. (What…