Wellness is essentially another word for health, yet it embraces every facet of our being.

What is life? What is death? One way to understand life is as the sum of every breath we take while we inhabit this body. Death is simply the end of our breathing, when the body returns to earth and dust.

Wherever you are and whoever you may be, keep moving forward, learn from every stumble and continue your journey.

Why does fear arise? It appears when love is lacking and when we do not trust life.

To live in love or to live in fear are the only two possibilities. These are the states from which all other emotions flow.

Stress is a word we hear almost every day, used in countless situations to describe many forms of tension. In essence, stress is anything that brings about a change in our psychosomatic system, whether that change is positive or negative.

Every situation holds the potential for growth and learning.

Lately, simply getting through the day has been difficult, and for some, even the nights feel heavy.

Tension meets us at every turn. Wherever you look, the news speaks of death, wars, toxins, destruction and disease.

Yet the people we pass on the street each day keep replaying their own stories and private troubles, and few pause to notice anyone else. Many have forgotten the present moment and the reality we share, along with the people and the natural world from which we have drifted away.

We are living through a time of profound cleansing, a rebalancing and a renewal of connection. As in an ayahuasca ceremony, universal consciousness heals itself through purging and releasing whatever is unwanted or untrue. We now witness harsh negativity and sweeping divides, yet all of this belongs to the cleansing process within each of us.

As we rub our blurred, confused, tearful eyes, we ask why. When answers do not appear, we seek out kindred spirits in the hope of hearing something that helps.