“Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?” – Anonymous Several years ago, my own thinking and my own best ideas had taken me to a place of utter despair. From depression to addiction and ultimately psychosis. None of it made any sense to me because this was, in absolute fact, the exact same thinking that had also allowed me to

Mirror mirror on the wall. You hold my answers big and small. When I remember to look inside, And feel the things I want to hide. I find my anger, my grief, my fear And I ride the waves until the murky turns clear. I free myself from the shackles of my past, And find freedom in the here and now at last. ~Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch For the past two years I have been exploring the Presence Process by Michael Brown. My time with the process has felt like an initiation into a

Through our thoughts we tell a story to ourselves, about ourselves, that we use to define the way we relate to the world around us. We tell the world a story about ourselves, in how we speak and how we act, and we use this in an attempt to control how the world relates to us. We even collectively agree on stories to define a collective shared reality that regulates how we collectively relate to one another. We call this His-story . They are all just stories. History is wri