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I Hate My Husband, I Hate My Wife: Healing through The F*ck You Letter

There is an underbelly to our most intimate relationships: the dark side of love. When people announce they are getting married, we might give our condolences along with our congratulations to offer a more holistic picture of the institution. Until then, let’s work out some of the awful kinks. […]

By | 2019-01-23T15:30:57-07:30 August 1st, 2014|Therapy, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hate to Meditate? Try Tapping into Jizo

In the ongoing quest to mend our anxious minds, many of us are drawn to meditation. Once we begin, we find that we fidget, we get sleepy, we get bored. We don’t do it right, we fail, we quit, we start again only to quit again. Our expectations of finding peace are not met and [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:00-07:30 July 7th, 2014|Meditation, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Jizo Porn? Shall I Laugh? Cry? Cringe?

I’m reading the web through different eyes. I’m thinking (which isn’t always such a good idea) that I’m not using the right words to get Jizo into the mainstream of American consciousness. I just visited a site I was almost afraid to see: cabinporn.com. I thought it might be real porn, shot in cabins. Who [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:04-07:30 May 30th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Writing A Memoir

A funny thing happened when I decided to write a memoir of my journey of photographing, meditating and knowing Jizo. For years, I was on what I guess you would call a spiritual path, a seeking kind of thing. It started when I was 8 years old but heated up in my late 20’s. [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:06-07:30 May 24th, 2014|Emotional Self, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Jizo Therapy: Kintsugi and The Broken Places

A funny thing happens after sitting in meditation for a long time, gazing at my Jizos, who are gazing back at the not-me — my mind becomes at ease. I promise it only took around 20 years for me to stop controlling my breath and just let it be. For years, my mind would always [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:07-07:30 May 22nd, 2014|Shopping, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Your Body Needs Breath, Not Magic

The other morning in yoga, my instructor, Dakota Lupo, said something that made me laugh out loud.  I am a little careful now about when I laugh aloud in yoga because once I laughed at something a new instructor said — she was funny — and she glared at me. She said, “Yoga is serious.” [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:10-07:30 May 12th, 2014|Buddhism, Therapy, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hello, Keywords? Hello Jizo.

What?  Aw, crap. In meditation this morning Chibi fell off the shrine and on to the sketch pad:  “Oh, no!” Chibi cried, like the 1950s-style comics that used to run on Sunset Boulevard in the ’80’s that read “I forgot to have children!” My Chibi cried, “I forgot to use keywords!  Key. Words! I heard [...]

By | 2019-01-23T15:31:12-07:30 May 8th, 2014|Jewelry, Uncategorized|0 Comments