Susan Kenny, LMFT

10/31/2025

Support local families

✨ When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher wall. ✨

Starting Nov. 1, SNAP (CalFresh) benefits will pause due to the federal shutdown — leaving many Marin families, especially women and children, struggling to afford groceries.

At Moonstone Skincare, we believe abundance is meant to be shared. That’s why we’ve launched Building a Longer Table, a community matching campaign to help feed our neighbors in need.

Here’s how it works:
💖 You donate directly to SF-Marin Food Bank or North Marin Community Services.
💖 We match your donation dollar for dollar, up to $3,000 total.
💖 We send funds out weekly so help reaches families immediately.

The campaign will continue until the federal shutdown ends or we’ve matched the full $3,000 ($6,000 to feed local families!).

Bring in, or email your donation receipt to [email protected], and we’ll add your name to our Longer Table Gratitude Wall — a growing in-studio display of generosity and hope.

Because no one should ever have to wonder where their next meal will come from.

10/15/2025

There are seasons in a life when the heart can no longer hold itself together. What once felt like wholeness begins to dissolve, and in the dust that is left, a portal appears.

We are conditioned to rush toward mending, to patch the wound, to turn away from the trembling. But perhaps healing does not always mean repair.

Perhaps the deeper medicine is found within the breaking —
in allowing the ache to open us, in letting the tears soften the soil around what is longing to be born.

Inside every shattering are seeds of new life. It is through a conscious, embodied, devotional relationship with the allies of grief, as they cycle and spin and twirl within and around us, that that water of life may flow again.

The threshold through which the soul ripens into its next becoming.

It is a conscious breaking - one that is fiery and alive, felt in the very bone and tissue - that prepares the field.

05/21/2025

Beyond all the theories, conflicting approaches, interventions, and strategies, for me therapeutic companionship is a process of bearing witness to the life of another as they come to befriend themselves in a way that was not possible until now.

To excavate meaning where there was none, to find purpose in the core of the purposelessness, breath where there was no breath to be found.

This befriending is not ordinary or passive, not always flowing and peaceful. It is fierce, on fire, and an act of revolution. It is the light shining out of the core of the dark night, the outrageousness of the human spirit, and the basic goodness of the human heart.

To walk into the dark wood, into the disorienting and hopeless places, without knowing where the journey will lead, if we will make it out in one piece, or where new life will be found.

Making sense together of where they have been, who they see themselves to be, and what they are longing to become. To illuminate what matters most to them and cradle it in our shared heart. To help them gather the pieces of the broken world.

To proclaim their experience as utterly valid, their feelings as ragingly honorable and intelligent, that they are worthy of love as they are.

That despite the pain of the present, the traumas of the past, and the fragmented dreams of the future we will dare to reclaim the aspects, parts, and pieces of the soul that have been turned from, now longing to return home.

We will assert together that pain is not pathology, that they need not be "cured" in order for us to stay near, that their suffering is authentic, that their hopelessness well-founded. Even their doubt is holy when allowed into the inner sanctum. What they are is not some project to be improved, but a mystery to be lived.

And then, from that foundation of companionship and bearing witness to the sacredness of what a human being truly is—including the profound grief, despair, and moments of great joy—we are able to turn together into the unknown and bow before its immensity.

It is awesome, in the truest sense of the word, to bear witness in this way. To fall to the ground in the beholding of the Totality in action, of the unstoppable wild bravery of the human spirit, and the relentlessness and creativity of love as it makes its way into form.