Poetry

This is a poem Teal wrote about a death she had just experienced, which hit her deeper than most of her experiences with clients.

This poem represents the spiritual philosophy behind the four stages of the Great Work of Alchemy... The four stages being Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo.

While walking outside on a very cold November morning, Teal wrote this poem about our temporary lives but eternal souls.

This is a poem about striving in which Teal explains where we are all really trying to get to... and how to go about getting there.

A poem in which teal speaks to the human race

A poem in which Teal is talking to herself as a child.

Being an avid horseman since birth, Teal wrote this poem after a ride on her horse when she was still a teenager.

A poem about Teal’s favorite flower, which if you read closely, is also a poem about herself.

A poem about the summers in the Wasatch mountains where Teal grew up

A verse in which Teal is talking to her son, Winter, as an infant

A poem Teal wrote several years ago during her childhood abuse in which she describes the feeling place of it. The poem contains several hidden details of the actual abuse that was taking place.

A Journal entry written by Teal upon returning for a visit to her hometown after escaping

A poem Teal wrote in reference to her mother while in therapy for the abuse that she suffered as a child.

A poem Teal wrote in China while studying Qigong, in which she describes how everything that is, is made from nothingness… with our minds, nothingness being the beginning state which is accessed through meditation or dreamless sleep, which people fear due to their skewed morals. But which shouldn’t be feared at all because nothingness is simply the potential state of “everythingness”.

Teal wrote this poem as a teenager, while watching a sunset before running away.

A verse in which Teal speaks to us about worth.

A poem Teal wrote after escaping and years of healing… To the man who abused her.

A poem in which Teal is speaking about our detrimental, societal idea of justice.

A poem Teal wrote after watching a news program featuring soldiers at war in Iraq.

A poem teal wrote after a suicide attempt due to her childhood programming. In this poem she explains that a person can die many times in one life and be re-born again. In fact this process, however painful, is the very grounds of spiritual growth.

A poem that reflects on the way that positive is inspired from negative and in this way, joy grows from suffering, and therefore that which we call negative has it's own beauty and purpose.

This is a poem Teal wrote about grief while watching a family lose a loved one while she was in the ICU unit at a hospital.

This is a poem Teal wrote during a hike she took into the desert wilderness of Escalante Utah to a waterfall called Calf Creek Falls.

This is a poem written by Teal about enlightenment. It is meant to dispel of the idea that enlightenment is a "place" you get to or an unshakable state you achieve that exempts you from the human experience of life.

Teal was inspired to write this poem to her students after a workshop she held in 2012, where she encountered an understandable but unfavorable response (which she often gets) to one of her suggestions. The response was, "You don't understand how hard it is". Teal wanted to explain to those who see her as an awakened teacher that people often get to the place of being awakened by suffering, like she did, and thereby explain that she does understand how hard it is. And not only does it NOT have to be hard, but also that hardship is often what creates in us the very transcendence that we seek... and that she has achieved.