Spiritual Insights

This is the First in a Series on How to Love to Stay Healthy, with the owner of Interdependence Health Food store in Sedona. Suzy

Suzy"s passion is camaraderie — that, of the earth, we are all in this experience together. She cares about good people healing, growing, and getting to more than occasionally crack up together. I am energized by the examples being set in the permaculture movement — practicing rainwater catchment, greening the desert — letting seeds grow in our footsteps and not just destruction — and I love being surrounded by others following their particular callings.

Suzy has a degree in experiential education and ecopsychology. I had some beautiful experiences at Prescott College getting to know the southwest, practicing community activism, reflecting on cultural perspectives, and diving into the psyche. Through my twenties, I got to experience comfortable and uncomfortable chapters with travel and personal development. My work has largely revolved around healthy food — cooking, farming, working in health food stores, and helping to put out a permaculture podcast — and I also spent two years working in the school system.

I decided in 2015 that my desire was to have a little health food store. I am so grateful for all of the support I have received in bringing this desire to life

When she was working at The Food Conspiracy Co-Op in Tucson, a customer of mine wished me a Happy Interdependence Day. He then smiled and said, “…because we all need each other.”

That message has stayed with me these past few years and has offered me inspiration and a sense of purpose regarding the store.

I talk about the The Festival of Wesak and do a meditation. The Wesak festival is the Festival of the Buddha, the spiritual intermediary between the highest spiritual center, Shamballa, and the Hierarchy. The Buddha is the expression of the wisdom of God, the embodiment of light and the indicator of divine purpose. This Festival is fixed annually in relation to the full moon of May; it is the great Eastern Festival.

The Forces of Enlightenment are active at the time of the Wesak Festival

 Simrit is an amazing spiritual performer. I talk with her and about the event on Maui

A talk and meditation on Oneness. We are all one in spirit. As we experience oneness we can let go of the division that our country is going through,

The world is all going through the same challenges with COVID-19, and if we understand the oneness of all, we can overcome the feeling of separateness and being alone.

Learning Detachment, a Talk and Meditation. Detachment is a powerful tool to use during COVID-19. Things are changing rapidly, and with a lot things going away, we have to be able to be to let go with ease.

A talk and Meditation on the process of acceptance. 

This is a very easy way to use tools to reduce stress and use meditation to relax during challenging times.