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"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." - Isak Dinesen Today's full moon in Cancer reminds us to be a compassionate witness to our own emotional landscape. Go easy today. Love a little harder. Breathe a little deeper. Allow everything to be as it is and your soul will metabolize exactly what it needs. Trust that. ✨🙏🏼✨

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The swelling + redness + occasional puss + constant pain + itchy dryness + all manner of sexy awesomeness has finally calmed down after 3 weeks and I can start to enjoy my little nose stud 🙌🏼 Totally worth it. People are asking me about the nose ring I'm wearing in a lot of my past pictures. I had a fake gold hoop and a fake magnetic stud. I was being a baby about the pain and healing process, but always always always wanted the piercing. This was my goodbye and good riddance to 2016. Time to take our power back, folks.

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Saying a peaceful goodbye to 2016. Tonight is my third night using @iyanlavanzant Master Peace Clearing + Release wash...and the first night I follow it with the Sweet Attraction blend. Essential oils, healing herbs, African black soap, prayers and affirmations and all the juju I can conjure. Also a bit of prehnite and malachite thrown into the healing mix and a candle charged with the energy of a sacred women's circle that means the world to me. It's been real, 2016. You're free to go. 2017, let's do this.

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Tada! Allie came for moral support and ended up with her own nose piercing! I'll swap my peridot stud for a rose gold ring when I'm back in Salt Lake late next fall...but for now...tada! (at KOI Piercing Studio)

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Hey guys, do I have something on my face? Guys...? (at KOI Piercing Studio)

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Indira, age 7, from Nepal. The photograph is James Mollison's work, I'm simply sharing it. See my previous post to read about his "Where Children Sleep" exhibit. (at The Leonardo)

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From James Mollison's "Where Children Sleep" exhibit, this is Indira. To paraphrase the interview text: She's 7 years old and loves in Kathmandu, Nepal with her prints, brother, and sister. Their house consists of a single room and a single mattress. Indira has worked at the local granite quarry since she was 3 years old. She works six hours a day and then helps her mother cook dinner. When she gets to go to school, it's a 30-minute walk from their home. She wants to be a dancer when she grows up. If you're scrolling social media...on your smart phone...in a room that's climate controlled...and you've eaten in the last six hours...take a breath or two and let the gratitude sink in. (at The Leonardo)

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I went with my family to the "Where Children Sleep" exhibit at @theleonardoslc. Artist James Mollison travels the world making photographs of children + their bedrooms, and interviewing them about their lives. It was so moving -- particularly at this time of year when many (if not most) people in my country are consumed with...well, consumption. (at The Leonardo)

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The sunset tonight is kinda apocalyptic. And I kinda love it. (at Mount Timpanogos)

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Home is wherever you are. Sacred is whatever you say it is. ✨🔮✨

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Home Sweet Stateside Home.

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Oh Asia, you and your cat cafés.

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Chiang Rai is sparkly. (at หอนาฬิกาเฉลิมพระเกียรติ จ.เชียงราย)

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What happens to someone who spends 7 full days in total silence, full technological detox, and 12 hours of meditation each day? This ✨🙏🏼✨ Retreat complete. Now, America. You've been up to some seriously hateful, reductionist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, scary bullshit since I've been gone. The worst buzzkill ever. We need to talk. (at New Life Foundation)

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No mud, no lotus. And all that jazz. Or something like that. (at วัดบ้านสมานมิตร)

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I'm realizing I haven't been this quiet on Instagram in a long time, if ever. Then again, I've never been this quiet in my life either...or slow...or peaceful...or present. Tomorrow afternoon I start my 7-day silent meditation retreat, which includes an electronic gadget detox. See you on the flip side 🙏🏼💛 (at New Life Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand)

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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Carl Jung. With today's new moon in Scorpio, the dark intensity and purifying alchemy of this next month kick into high gear. The timing of my 5-week buddhist meditation retreat is my manifestation of this vibe, as is my commitment to ramp up to a full week of complete silence and 12+ hours of sitting and walking meditation each day. Because sometimes the depth of the pain, the breadth of the purging, and the desire for healing warrants a journey to the exact places we don't want to go.