The sacral chakra holds two rights: to feel, and to want. Why needs get shamed, what desire is actually for, and a ten-minute movement practice.

The first centre, which is called the root chakra, holds two rights: to be here, and to have. How to tell whether you were given them, plus a grounding practice to do this week. has two rights attached to it. The right to be here, and the right to have. That sounds almost too basic to need saying. But a lot of people have never actually been given either one. They were born into a household where their arrival was inconvenient, or where there wasn't enough of something, or where the adults...

On the scene that makes no sense until the end I hurt my right hand a while back. Nothing dramatic. Just enough that writing was off the table, which for me is not a small thing. Writing is how I find out what I think. Take it away and I am walking around full of half-formed things with nowhere to put them. I was annoyed about it the way you are annoyed by weather. It had no meaning. It was an interruption in an otherwise perfectly good month, and if you had asked me what it was for, I would...