Rites of Passage: IOEP’s Founder on Finding Her Purpose and Starting a Nonprofit

Interview by Emma Sartwell August 1-7, 2019, Mindi Counts, founder of Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, and Katie Asmus, founder of the Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute, will lead an intimate group of non-binary and women-identified seekers on the Wild Women’s Quest: a time of journey and self-reflection in wilderness space outside Boulder, CO. I interviewed Mindi … Continue reading Rites of Passage: IOEP’s Founder on Finding Her Purpose and Starting a Nonprofit

Service as a State of Mind

We live in an age where we have the opportunity to know what’s going on, not only in our communities or the cities where we live, but all around the world. We know when there are disasters taking place, human rights violations happening, or where there is political unrest or species nearing extinction – not … Continue reading Service as a State of Mind

Service from the Heart

I recently returned from a week-long training for acupuncturists called, “How to be a Global Healer.” It was the 2nd level of training with Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) and it was set in a place called Vallecitos, New Mexico. The first level of training really focused on local and national work in the field during … Continue reading Service from the Heart