What time zone are you on? 

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I'm on EST (in Atlanta, GA). 

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Do you accept insurance? 

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I do not take insurance.

 

But I do offer Klarna and Affirm so that you can pay in installments. ​​​

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Can I try out IM before I invest in full sessions? 

 

Yes! 

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But we can do better than a mere try-out.

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Let's help you try on Inquiry Meditation with the following resources! 

 

If you are seeking immediate, right-this-sec healing and relief from your pain, get going with my free 8-minute makeover. If you love it, you'll probably respond beautifully to IM. 

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When you're ready for stronger medicine, pick up the 11-minute Perfect Daily Practice. It's essentially a mini-IM session in a bottle. 

 

The Perfect Daily Practice also is a wonderful, relatively low-investment way to try on Inquiry Meditation--and begin feeling palpably better now! 

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Are full sessions virtual or in person?

 

Full sessions are in either format. (For in person, I live in Atlanta, GA, and am on EST.)

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The majority of sessions I do are virtual, since many meditators live out of state and some overseas. 

 

Inquiry Meditation is equally potent in person and virtually. 

 

One benefit of the virtual format: meditators enjoy being in their own space immediately after a session so they can reflect/journal/take a walk/rest/etc.

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Some clients, though, prefer in-person sessions, and I'm happy to to work that way as well. 

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I’ve never meditated/I don't like meditation/I'm not good at meditation. Can IM still work for me?

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Yep! No previous experience with traditional meditation is necessary. 

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And I like to say that IM is THE meditation for people who don't like or aren't "good at" meditation:). It's simple to learn, and relief occurs on the spot. 

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Do you lead group presentations and/or group Inquiry Meditation sessions?

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I absolutely do!  The group factor, even virtually, amplifies IM's effect beautifully. Contact me and let's discuss. 

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Do you work with those in romantic partnerships? 

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I do!

 

I work one on one with each person in the partnership. ​​​​

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Is Inquiry Meditation a form of Internal Family Systems parts work?​

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IM incorporates elements of Dr. Robert MacDonald's  Conflict Integration exercise, which is his brilliant interpretation of parts work. 

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What is your opinion on talk therapy? 

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I'm all for it!

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Does IM address sexual abuse?

 

Let me start by saying: I am not a traditionally certified abuse/trauma specialist. 

 

That being said: Yes, many of the meditators I work with are processing sexual abuse. 

 

As with all IM sessions, we follow the body's wisdom.

 

And so, the work is as gentle as it is powerful in its healing.

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Session by session, these meditators are able to joyously reclaim and restore their innate and rightful sense of freedom and happiness. 

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And incrementally, at just their right pace: they know they are safe to let that freedom and happiness blossom in their relationships with themselves and others. 

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Deeper IM questions ahead--read at your leisure and pleasure! 

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Inquiry Meditation sounds great, and I want to try it, but it's pricier than I was expecting.

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I get that. ​

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Try looking at it like this.

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You can pay for marrow-deep, highly concentrated, powerfully premium healing in the relative short term--for some weeks or months, or even for just one single powerful session...

 

And you can deeply and truly and FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY know that you're actually fucking healing!

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Or:

 

You can pay less over the long term--for years and years--and you can get some relief...but not really what you want--and what your gut tells you is possible.

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Inquiry Meditation is an investment because it is premium healing.

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And I am absolutely dedicated to you getting so very much out of every moment of every session with me.

 

In each and every session, my intention is to be in truest service to you and all that you are looking for--and all that you may not yet know you are looking for...

 

And all that is looking for you. 

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Keep in mind, too, that a single session can turn things around for you!

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During your IM Experience--the 2-hour Session #1 of Inquiry Meditation--you'll learn the tenets of IM and several practices, including the IM mechanism itself--that will enable you to continue practicing independently and immediately. 

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You also will understand, quite deeply, why your pain shows up how it shows up...and you'll know how to engage with it effectively. 

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And, of course, during the IM Experience, you will feel palpable bodily relief from whatever pain has brought you here!​

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I work with some meditators who did the IM Experience... and got enough just from that single session to keep up their practice independently. 

 

They see me occasionally for tune-ups as needed.

 

In the meantime, they are flourishing. 

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And so, whether you do only one session with me or a series of sessions: 

 

Do what the hundreds of courageous meditators with whom I've practiced did in their very beginning. 

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Take the first step. 

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From your testimonials, it seems like different people have different experiences with IM. Why is that? 

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You're right: each meditator has his/her/their own unique experience with IM! 

 

This is because IM really works at each person's bodily level of readiness--it  naturally calibrates to where you are.  

 

Some meditators come to me already having done a number of healing modalities, and so they want (and are ready for) greater intensity. And so that is their experience of IM. 

 

Others are new to this kind of work, and so sessions naturally take on gentler intensity.

 

IM is, by its nature, a gentle process. 

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And amazingly, as far as I can tell, there is no limit to the possibilities of its depth:). 

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Why do you call IM a meditation if you're talking during the session? Isn't meditation about sitting still and being quiet?

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The way I see it, as you inquire and answer questions, what's happening is that you're seeing at deeper and deeper levels. That, to me, is what all forms of meditation boil down to, is seeing evermore deeply. All forms of meditation carry that essence of seeing and seeing and seeing. 

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And while, during IM, you are talking and answering questions and such, much of the time is spent in silence as you wait for what wants to come up after you ask a question. Or rather, much of the time is spent creating space (by listening) so that what wants to come up, can come up. 

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So the element of space, and the element of waiting and listening in a state of presence with no expectation: these are very much part of Inquiry Meditation. As is the resulting seeing. 

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 Is IM inner child work? Because doesn't possibly revisiting my childhood, with its past painful events and feelings, encourage a victim mindset? Hard things happened back then, but I don't want to look back anymore. I want to take responsibility for my life now and I've done a lot of work to not give into victim mode and blaming others. 

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First, just a note that the inner child will show up when and only when that would be most helpful for you! 

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When the inner child's pain arises, it is pain that could not be fully felt at the time of the painful event--and your very wise body decides this when it will arise.  When and if it does, we feel compassion for ourselves. We are returned more and more to our inherently compassionate nature. And what we feel for ourselves, we feel for others. 

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So the more you are able to hone in on the child's or younger self's pain--this happens session by session--then the more you are able to feel compassion not only for how much pain you were in during a past painful event: but you also are rendered more and more able to feel compassion for any others who were a part of that event. In seeing yourself, you are able to see them. And forgiveness is the natural byproduct of seeing. Or: to see is to forgive. ​​

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Where do emotional triggers and being triggered fit into IM? 

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I believe that our emotional triggers and suffering, both seemingly trivial and serious, are not frustrating reflections of our seemingly fated inability to overcome our problems--or, just as painful--our "failure" to "get over" our childhoods or past traumatic events.

 

Instead, I believe our triggers and suffering are desperately hopeful messages from the inner children within us all who yearn for conscious reunion with our adult selves. I believe the inner child is our primary soulmate: "the one," that thing, that feeling, for which we search externally--in a romantic mate, in external success, in addictions, etc.

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I’m grieving a recent loss. Can IM help me?

 

First, I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

I'd recommend a multi-pronged approach to address your grief. I have worked with meditators who are grieving recent losses. Depending on where you are in your grieving, IM may help you open more fully to your grief, and the true love within your grief, as much as your body is ready for. I'd be happy to chat with you to explore. 

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Can I do an Inquiry Meditation session with my partner/child/friend/others present? 

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You absolutely can do an IM session with another person present! It can be incredibly potent to be lovingly  witnessed in your process. You will want to have done a solo IM session before, and we'd need to discuss the particulars of your situation as well..

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You mentioned your teachers on your "Leslie" page. Do you have other influences?

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For sure! Tons! 

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In no particular and surely not in all-inclusive order that I'll keep updating as I remember or learn of others...

 

Solange Knowles, Eckhart Tolle, Madame Zora Neale Hurston, Pema Chodron, Scott Peck, Alan Watts, Thomas Moore, Paulo Coelho, Pablo Neruda, Erich Fromm, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm X, Beyonce Knowles, Louisa May Alcott, Neale Donald Walsch, Dan Millman, Audre Lorde, N.K. Jemisin, Madeline L'Engle, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Whyte...

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If you like any of these fine folk, or other fine folk adjacent to these listed here, you just might love Inquiry Meditation. ​​​​​​​​​