Can We Human Better?

Musings on energy, consciousness, embodiment, midlife, and rites of passage.

Melissa Brough, PhD, RMT Somatic Educator, Author

Welcome. I am a somatic educator and a passionate nerd about the emergent field of energetic literacy. I’m also a former professor of communication and social change, Fulbright grantee, PhD dissertation award-winner, mother of two, a life-long learner, and the descendant European settlers living and working on the unceded lands of the Abenaki peoples in what is now called Vermont. I’m a cisgendered woman partnered with a non‑binary person.

Below are some musings on energetic intelligence and energetic literacy (left column) and on peri/menopause, midlife, and somatic rites of passage (right column). We explore a range of ideas about how we might human better, informed by several brilliant and wonderful humans, a range of different cultures, and by nature herself. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

Society as we know it is changing faster than ever, and many of us are asking: What does it mean to human (v.) better?

On energetic intelligence

On the midlife threshold