Lavender Pass
Six obstacle courses. One unforgettable journey.
This book is a form of psychotherapy for every man and woman who has ever journeyed from horror to emptiness, from a role to a person, from grief to lavender, from divorce to a relationship with oneself, and from lust and passion to mature love.
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Buy the BookThe Six Passes
The Pass of Madness
A story about how to ruin a wedding dress with a single word—“I want”—destroy a ten-year marriage on a single New Year’s Eve, lose a family behind a single green fence, and start living your life in a room with a mattress, string lights, and a ficus tree on the floor—with two children, no job, and no husband.
This is the story of a woman who walked out the door of her marriage and walked through a door where there are no openings, boundaries, or supports.
Buy the BookThe Pass of Birth
A story about flying 10,000 km from home to find peace, to see the burden on her shoulders, to accept her mistakes and failures, to traverse many high kilometers, and to transform into a snake-woman who slithers through the pass just as a child is born during labor.
This is a story about how a pass at an altitude of 5,614 can lead to choosing oneself—a choice that no longer seems like madness.
Buy the BookThe Pass of Emptiness
A story about how dishes shatter, bonds are severed, money is lost, and the first betrayal gnaws at the soul. How we walk away from Mom, Dad, and everything familiar. How prostitution seems like a better choice than fidelity, loyalty, and love. And how everything that was suddenly turns into “never again”—and through this agony, freedom begins to shine through.
This is a story about how meaning is lost in all traditions and norms, childhood and habits—and how a woman suddenly discovers that without all of this, she still exists.
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A story about cherry earrings, a penguin in bed, strange dates and men, polyamory, and the desire to learn to listen to one’s body. It’s a journey toward libido through the beds of casual and not-so-casual acquaintances, and the discovery of one’s own Pandora’s box through passion and lust.
This is the story of a “dirty” virgin who chose pure debauchery, of a “good” girl who became an “indecent” woman, and of the G-spot, which isn’t aroused by the desire to conform or please, but solely by the desire for pleasure.
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A story about caviar eaten with spoons, the masks we wear, the lies we tell, and the truth we extract from ourselves like a balloon from the throat. This is a story about the first man and the first woman who withstood each other’s openness—and stayed together only to part ways out of gratitude and love.
This is a story about freedom in relationships, which is possible only when we find the inner permission to be authentic, vulnerable, and honest with ourselves.
Buy the BookLavender Pass
A story about the final signature on a divorce document, a name change, motherhood, a career, and peace of mind. A story about six months of calm before the storm, and the crumbling walls of plans and homes. A story about the transformation of relationships and an escape to a distant land, about a city that cut me down to the root, and about new shoots of lavender—which can do what a person cannot in grief, horror, and pain.
To watch love and bees swaying on the branches.
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