Dear Inner Ocean community, I don’t know about you but ever since hearing about the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting, my heart has been heavy. I was shocked, saddened, and wanted to find a way to support and comfort this community that has been so traumatized. It’s true, women’s healthcare is a battlefield – and yes, … Continue reading Today I’m Driving Towards The Shooting
Dearest IOEP Community, I can’t believe it but it has been MONTHS since I’ve written. Partly it’s just been busy-ness. Life has this incredible way of filling up. Clients having babies, my own four-legged girls and their various needs, and just staying on the up and up with all of life! It can be SO … Continue reading Back to Nepal Amidst Risk
To be completely honest, I never intended for my passionate-heart-centered service to become a full-blown organization that is now becoming the Inner Ocean Empowerment Project! This whole journey began so simply and yet now here we are featured in such a large publication as, Dr. Oz: The Good Life Magazine (750,000 person readership!)! I feel … Continue reading Your Doctor, Our Hero: How Inner Ocean Empowerment Project Landed in Dr. Oz Magazine
To escape murder, rape, enslavement, forced labor, and torture you realize your only opportunity of survival is to flee your home country – the only land and community you have ever known. The only trees you have memorized climbing to find fruit, the only plants you know that heal your wounds, and the only shelter you … Continue reading Here, There, and Everywhere a Refugee
(A busy intersection at the entrance to Mae Sot, near Burma border.) (Refugee housing…) (A woman washes her daughters soiled clothes after an episiotomy.) Squatting over a pit toilet in a concrete compound, I heard the first bombs going off. I thought to myself, here it is – life on the border of Thailand and … Continue reading Birth, Death, and Bombs: Life on Burma’s Border
I am in Bangkok! After departing Wednesday in Colorado, I arrived in the middle of the night on what was Friday here. Bangkok is a bustling city it turns out and the tourism (and influence thereof) is most evident. Brightly lit billboards litter the sky while street cats win over the locals (more-so than dogs … Continue reading Bearing Witness in Bangkok
Today is Human Rights Day. It’s a day for honoring those who have helped achieve the freedom, equality, and dignity many are fortunate enough to enjoy, and to acknowledge that there are many who have yet to receive these necessary rights. Even in the U.S, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we have … Continue reading Human Rights Day and Where We Draw The Line…
November 14, 1983- November 9, 2012 aka. Jodester If I could have guessed, I would have thought that fall would be her favorite season. It wasn’t too hot to get outside all day but it was still sunny most of the day so she wouldn’t freeze! We would have already gone to Anderson Farm’s to pick … Continue reading In Honor of Jodi
Mustang lies in the north-central part of Nepal, bordering Tibet (now sadly referred to as China). The Kingdom of Mustang in Nepal, despite the connotation, has nothing to do with mustangs! Mustangs are in fact, truly American, feral horses. But that is not to say the people of Mustang aren’t horse-people, because that is precisely … Continue reading Heavy Heart on Horseback: My Pilgrimage Through Mustang
Or was it India? It’s a hot topic of debate in Asia… It seems that the Buddha was born before India and Nepal even existed as countries but the territory where he was born is (likely) modern-day Nepal. And the Nepalese are so proud to share this! Though you will find a similar argument in … Continue reading The Buddha Was Born in Nepal
