On the Path with Kissiah Young

Life is our longest-shortest experience, how are we choosing to live it? Now that I have officially turned fifty years old, I am really giving thought to where I place my time and attention. I'm peel…

Disappointment is a normal part of life. It happens. We seek something or someone, we have hopes wishes and dreams, we put ourselves out there in different ways, and sometimes we are left disappointe…

Dating can be its very own trying experience. Many people have thrown in the towel, completely giving up on "looking for love," because of the unfortunate experiences had in the dating world. It seem…

No one is exempt from experiencing grief. So many of us have been holding on to a kind of unexplored grief from childhood that, unbeknownst to us, impacts our lives in big and little ways. Have we gi…

I have learned a lot over the years when it comes to love, romance, and relationships. Trust me when I say, I have had my fair share, yet it hasn't been until now that I feel like I have not only cra…

Have you ever really given thought to that, how our sexuality is not synonymous with our sexual orientation? There are so many layers to sexuality and often we do not spend time thinking about who we…

We have been conditioned to go, go, go, and do, do, do even at our own expense. Many are operating on fumes trying to keep up with the many tasks, to-dos, roles, and responsibilities. This comes as n…

Have you ever sat and thought about the reality that we as sentient beings hold within ourselves the ingredients of both life and death? I've been sitting with the truth of this, contemplating how cl…

We have arrived at the ninth and last of The Nine Contemplations on Death. It has been a rather reflective and contemplative series for me, and I appreciate having been able to share this time with y…

We meet again here as we contemplate number eight of the many layers found in The Nine Contemplations on the inevitability of death. When we think of the many people we love and who love us, we must …

Many of us work hard to accumulate or access different material things in life. One doesn't have to lose themselves in consumerism to still manage to look around at the view of all we have. How tight…

There are so many things that we unknowingly outsource, such as answers to questions where the answers rest within. Validation is so desired that we nearly abandon our own path for that of another, o…

How often we take for granted our bodies and the ways they carry us. We do not necessarily focus on gratitude that they continue to withstand. I believe we need to. It's important. As strong as our b…

I am thinking about the Los Angeles fires and the many people whose lives have been completely undone, and am reminded of this nine-part series on the inevitability of death, and the nature of imperm…

Where are you in this moment now? Have you given thought to how much of a gift it is? So often we wake and move through life as if the moments thereof are guaranteed. We seem to operate on a kind of …

Death is inevitable and will arrive when it arrives. It needs neither invitation nor permission to enter when it knocks. Death has access to our lives whether we desire it or not, are prepared or not…

In her poem, The Summer Day, poet, Mary Oliver, asks  "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Have you ever asked yourself a similar question, and not with the…

Have you ever sat and gave thought to the truth that you are going to die? Have I? Death is inevitable, so what are we doing with the reality of that? This episode explores the first of nine contempl…

So often we live as though death is out there somewhere, reserved for other people. We neither see nor seize the moment to befriend the reality that we will one day die. Imagine sitting with it and g…

I am one of those authentic people in life. Anyone who truly knows me can attest to this. I believe in being true to ourselves, which often means having the ability to enter into hard or uncomfortabl…