Wonder, Awe and Reverence

By Therisia “Trish” Hall

I invite you to, as author Ernest Holmes declared, “Change your thinking, Change your Life.”  Join an ongoing “spiritual adventure” — a challenge that will recast how you open to and experience your world. In this adventure, you will alter the “how” of how you engage with life. What you engage with may remain the same, however, it is very likely you will be inclined to make different choices….

Finding Your Inner Artist

By Violet Warner

All it means to be an artist is to be a conscious creator. Whether we are aware or not, we are always creating — with the words we choose to speak, the clothes we wear, the decor in our homes, the food we cook… they are all a product of our creativity. Dominant society tends to compartmentalize art to exist solely as a rigid practice, and one only available to an exclusive group. This mindset convinces many people to believe they are not artistic, thereby muting the vibrancy of their own spirit. Therefore, an integral part to spiritual evolution and mental freedom is to embrace and nurture your inner artist….

Embodying Unity Consciousness

By Rev. Cheryl Gander-Spagnolo

What if instead of perceiving Unity Consciousness as a concept to understand and work towards, we actually embody the sensation, feeling and inner knowing of it in our daily lives?…Every physical aspect of us, as well as our unseen aspects are particles of light vibrating at various frequencies. This frequency is the vibration that affects everything around us. As we vibrate we attract similar vibrations into our field. Unity Consciousness is when we are vibrating at a frequency of Love, Unconditional Love. This is the true source of who we are; and now is the time in the evolution of Humanity when we are being pressed to understand this and start living as the Spirit beings we are in a physical body….

Third Spaces: Who Uses Them and Who Benefits

By Mercedes Laney

In present-day America, especially in urban centers like the DMV, historical third spaces like malls, diners, bowling alleys, and independent cafes are simultaneously vanishing and being reinvented into run clubs, bookstore revivals, online communities, coworking hybrids, and contemplative spaces. The answer to who they benefit most is counterintuitive. The heaviest beneficiaries are not the socially abundant but the socially vulnerable: older adults, adolescents, the chronically ill, immigrants, and members of minoritized communities for whom the third space doubles as political, economic, and emotional infrastructure….

Are You Resisting Feeling Good? On Coherence, the Science of Scent, and What One Breath of Nature Can Begin To Restore

By Adora Winquist Soule

Stand in front of your mirror and ask yourself this question out loud: “Am I resisting feeling good?”…I am talking about the deeper, daily, moment-by-moment capacity to feel steady in your body, clear in your mind, connected in your heart, and present enough in your life to choose your next response.That kind of feeling good is not indulgent. It is foundational. It is connected to your health, your immunity, your relationships, your decisions, and your capacity to thrive. In the DC metro area, we are well acquainted with pressure. This is a region shaped by service, leadership and consequence. Whether you are a caregiver, a healer, a policy advocate, an educator, a first responder, or simply a person trying to hold a life together with grace, the nervous system can become trained to scan for what is wrong before it ever notices what is right….

Summer 2026: The Dance That Brings Understanding

By Misty Kuceris

There’s a dance between various important astrological energies this Summer of 2026 that emphasizes the importance of paradigm shifts already underway and paradigm shifts still to come. Whether caused by AI, space travel, political and global events, and more likely “all of the above,” reality as you know it is changing, and the dance you experience during the next several months will help you understand your place in this tapestry of changes….

Bridging the Gap: Signs and Symbols in Spirit Communication

By Annie Larson

Signs play an essential role in our daily lives by offering a visual representation of a word or idea. They enable us to give conceptual form to abstract ideas and emotions that may defy the power of words. Just as signs help us navigate our physical world, in the realm of mediumship, they become vital tools for communicating with the spirit world. For mediums, signs are the markers and messages that illuminate the path through the afterlife. They offer clues, reassurance, and guidance, allowing us to interpret communications from departed loved ones to bring comfort and meaning to those looking to reconnect….

Angels On Call

By Kerri Souilliard

In the Abrahamic religions, we see angels defined as extensions of God. Christianity defines these beings as messengers and protectors, and often organizes them into hierarchies. In Judaism, mal’achim are spiritual messengers of God’s will. Islam has beings of divine light called malā’ikah that are guardians set out to deliver holy revelations. Meanwhile, both Hinduism and Buddhism include the concept of devas to describe benevolent luminous beings that exist through multiple realms and layers of consciousness. In esoteric descriptions, angels are frequencies and energy fields of support. No matter your beliefs, these overlaps and similarities suggest there may be much more than meets the limited perspective of the human eye. More importantly, these entities give way to hope, guidance and support when we need it most during our experience here on earth….

Unlocking Your Intuition and Your Higher Self

By Carmen Froment

In the present polarized world, we need more than ever to rely on our intuition to make the best possible decisions! In order to dive into the subject of intuition, we can begin by studying our psychic structure so we can discover the difference between instincts, premonitions, clairvoyance and intuition….

Gender Fluidity in Buddhism and Hinduism: A Perspective of Transformative Magic

By Sheer Zed

Through the rainbowed prism of transformative magic, both Buddhism and Hinduism offer a cornucopia of narratives and teachings that reflect the fluidity of gender and, ultimately, genderlessness surrounding the ideas of illusory nature of “self” and “no-self.” In these profound and ancient traditions, the very idea of definitions, roles and fixed gender assignments evolve, dissolve and are rigorously challenged in the kaleidoscopic realms of identity and sexuality….

Campbell’s Lane Farm: A Threshold into the New Earth

By Patrica Pfost

There are places on this Earth that are more than places. They are thresholds. They are living fields of consciousness that seem to exist in two worlds at once — fully here in the ordinary sense, with trees, fences, animals, mud, weather, chores, laughter, and human hands tending what needs to be tended — and yet, at the same time, they are vibrational doorways into a different reality altogether. Campbell’s Lane Farm is one of those places….

Coherent Organization, Disease, and Longevity: A Systems View of Why We Age — and How We Stay Well

By Helena Amos, M.Ac., L.Ac., Euro. Physician

Brain health refers to the brain’s ability to function optimally across cognitive, emotional, metabolic, and neurological domains, while remaining resilient against stress, hormonal transitions, inflammation, vascular changes, toxins, and neurodegeneration. It is not defined by the absence of disease, but by clarity of thought, emotional stability, restorative sleep, adaptability, and sustained mental vitality across life stages. For women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause — often while managing demanding careers, caregiving roles, and chronic stress — brain health requires a targeted, preventive, systems-based approach….

Urban Foraging For Beginners – It’s Easier Than You Think!

By Candise Jordan

Here in the DMV, you are surrounded by food as soon as you step out of the door. Whether it’s an edible weed growing in your yard, or edible flowers hanging from the trees, we have plenty of food outside. Unfortunately, most people don’t know about these wild foods; and for the many who do know, there’s concern they’re not safe to eat. Here are three tasty beginner friendly weeds you can find right now that are packed with nutrition and are surprisingly delicious; and a few simple tips to get you started with foraging…

Announcing Letters to America: Perspectives from the Generation Shaping America’s Next 250 Years

By Alex Edgar

The term compassion fatigue has existed for more than thirty years, yet it entered mainstream awareness with surprising speed after 2020. Its rise was not accidental. The collective experience of mass trauma, caregiving overload, and prolonged uncertainty collided with a cultural shift that made emotional labor and mental health part of everyday conversation. Caregivers spoke more openly about exhaustion. Therapy language migrated from clinical spaces to social media feeds. What had once been unnamed suddenly had a vocabulary….

Write Like a Tree: Mindful Creativity as Connection with Nature

By Carol Burbank

Here, I want to suggest that mindful writing can create a powerful ecopsychological bridge that uses that creativity to learn new languages and connections with nature. Writing has power because mindful language opens a space for awakening. If we write mindfully, the process of discovery becomes deep and expansive, transforming our innate human capacity for naming and storytelling into an organic bridge with the world. In other words, it’s time to write like a tree!…

Why I Quit the Weed Warriors

By Kathy Jentz

It may surprise some folks to learn that I was part of a local Weed Warriors for several years. Our mission was to remove non-native invasive plants in public parks. We had a few training sessions and then could sign up for group workdays in specific areas of a designated park. We were also issued a Weed Warrior card that we could show people, if we were working alone and someone confronted us for “attacking” the park’s plantings. I was never asked to produce that card, but I still have it, along with my Weed Warrior T-shirt and bucket hat — somewhere….

When Politics Tears the Family Table Apart: A Guide to Survival

By Hanh Nguyen

For generations, the American dinner table was a sacred space where debate was expected but rarely destructive. Today, that table has become a battleground. According to 2024 research, nearly 72% of Americans now actively avoid political talk with family, while 21% have experienced total estrangement over ideological rifts. To protect your relationships without losing your peace of mind, consider the following streamlined approach….