Throughout the globe, our pre-Gregorian calendar ancestors used the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, to mark the timing of their harvest cycles and to gather in ceremony and celebration.

Would it be heretical to say that my autoimmune diagnosis was one of my greatest teachers?

The world can get pretty noisy—full of audible and non-sensorial sounds and distractions that can make you feel disconnected from yourself and others.

I used to pride myself on having a high amount of judgement—I thought it meant that I was very informed and that I held myself to a higher standard than others.