Thoughts on Iphelia

Linsey chimes in on how The Soul’s Twins has her thinking about bright sides, myth, typology, and shadow work.

This month, I had the privilege of sharing my review of The Great Blue Hills of God with a wider audience as it was originally published on TravelAwaits.com. This was a special experience as I got to navigate balancing my commitment to writing  feeling-focused review...

Goodbye 2019, and thank you for all you’ve taught me! It feels good to bid the year (and the decade) adieu knowing I’m headed into 2020 with more knowledge, discipline, and inspiration than I’ve ever had before. The books I’ve read and the reviews I’ve written in both...

Many books I’ve read contain wisdom; few feel like they come from a deep place of wisdom. Rewilding by Micah Mortali, Director of the Kripalu Schools and the founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership, definitely does. Luckily for me, it also gets at...

I was thrilled when Watkins approved me to review The Intuition Journal, partly because it’s such a lovely looking book. Sometimes we’re attracted to something because of its aesthetic—a feeling or energy I was invited to think about at the Jung in the Heartland...

Last week, my husband and I had to have a big, beautiful ash tree removed from our yard. It was a loss we both felt deeply, partly because we adore the wildlife in our yard and worried that the absence of the ash would mean fewer critters—both ground dwellers and...

After a month off from book reviewing, I’m back and happy to be reviewing a children’s book that feels very at home alongside Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling. What initially attracted me to Maybe Dying is Like Becoming a Butterfly, which feels well-suited to...

In my May review of Reading Through the Night, I reflected on my decision to review an already published book despite my attachment to this feature’s purpose: chiming in on soon-to-be-published titles. Two months ago, it felt hard to do that. My ego was very caught up...

I started this book after returning from a week in Mexico—a week spent almost entirely outside save sleeping hours. From wandering the native mangroves and dodging sargassum in the ocean to climbing one of the ancient Mayan pyramids at Coba during a light drizzle,...

Some of us are very attached to our best-laid plans and expectations. Not getting what we want, what we believe we worked for and earned, can be a tremendous blow to the ego. It can leave us feeling, on the one end of the spectrum, miffed and irritated—scrambling for...