We are always in an exchange of energy, whether we are aware of it or not. Every interaction carries something unseen but deeply felt, and you don’t have to be a healer or intuitive to be affected. If you are in relationship to the world, you are participating in this every day.

Most people don’t realize how permeable they are. You feel what isn’t yours, carry energy that doesn’t belong to you, and absorb the emotional residue around you, which can lead to exhaustion and disconnection. You have two bodies in constant relationship, the physical and the energetic. Learning to consciously inhabit both changes everything.

Chronic illness became part of my embodied experience almost three years ago. What has emerged is an inner expansion that has transformed my ability to dwell in these two domains at once. This is something I’ve cultivated for decades, but these past few years and particularly the past six months have integrated it in a genuinely surprising way.

I now have the language to share what once felt too inchoate to teach, and I offer this on the New Moon in Taurus, when Mars is doing some powerful mystical work with Chiron, the teacher of this wisdom in our collective consciousness.