2010: Confessions Of A Confused Comic
2010: Confessions Of A Confused Comic

It’s a fall night in 2010. The air is now cooler here in Los Angeles. Not by much. But the slight change is palpable. I feel sick to my stomach and know what I have to do. I look down at my black, hightop, Converse shoes, part of the get-up of your average stand up comic at the time, and I steel myself. I hated having to do it before a show…

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Sarah Taylor
Confessions Of A Mystic
Confessions Of A Mystic

About a dozen years ago, something happened that changed everything. About a dozen years ago, a monumental shift in perception and identity occurred. I had been meditating quite a bit. I knew something was coming, and yet…it still surprised me. This radical shift is known as a spiritual awakening, a satori, a path moment — all kinds of words to describe the indescribable.

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Sarah Taylor
Don't Light Yourself On Fire To Keep Another Person Warm
Don't Light Yourself On Fire To Keep Another Person Warm

“Don’t light yourself on fire to keep another person warm.”

A healing client mentioned this quote to me last week and we both smiled. I hadn’t heard this in years but I shook my head in total recognition that this has been one of my biggest lessons in this lifetime. I’ve had years of experience doing the “right” thing, the “good” thing, and trying to relieve others of their pain…at my own expense.

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Sarah Taylor
What If The Buddha Had Tried Therapy?
What If The Buddha Had Tried Therapy?

I wonder if the great realizers like the Buddha were just bypassing their desires. I wonder if they had enormous amounts of trauma, as it was really difficult to be alive back then, and if the transcendent approach was one of trauma response. I mean...just go with me here for awhile…

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Sarah Taylor
A Divine Mess
A Divine Mess

About ten years ago, I began feeling like a divine mess. I started calling myself that too. It was an apt and quirky way of expressing the reality that I had just undergone a radical shift in consciousness that had stuck around — which was quite wondrous to behold — yet was now sifting through reams of unhealed trauma. Years of abuse and shame and pain were now coming forward to be held in the light of awake awareness. And quite honestly it was a mess. But a divine mess.

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Sarah Taylor
Mistake / Mystic
Mistake / Mystic

When you grow up in a small town and then move away, and lots of time has passed, and you become a brand-new person, and you go back to that town, it can be a healing experience. Because of the space and distance, you return to it with fresh eyes. And what used to pain you, now seems like nothing. The aperture of understanding has opened wide and you hold your former home with a type of tenderness…

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Sarah Taylor