Oh my love! It’s the day of the moon. The perfect day for making magic. Four simple steps. Start where you are. Take a few slow deep breaths. Feel into your body. Where do you feel alive? Is there tightness, or holding? What emotions are present for you right now? Are there stories about what… Continue reading Monday Love
Hello my love! Would you like to hit the reset button today? Thinking these words from a most beloved children’s book, The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, might just do the trick. “Of course, there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it… Continue reading Monday Love… the magic is in you
Whoops… Hey Friends, it was a holiday here in the U.S. yesterday, and therefore felt more like a Sunday than a Monday. So here is your Tuesday love: … and she waits for the words to find her. and waits. Then closes her eyes and begins to tune into her breath. Emotions swell. Tears well,… Continue reading Tuesday Love!
Hello my love, Absolutely delicious to be back here with you again. It’s like coming home, to the most lovely, peaceful spot on earth. A deep sigh of relief, ripples through me. Settling into this body, with all the beauty and wisdom it contains. Hello, hello, hello. I’m so happy to see you. To sit… Continue reading Monday Love
What happens when you start three different blog posts but can’t seem to finish any of them, and take a nap instead? Nothing. Here is what I came up with instead:
Let’s play a new game. I call it the creating game. Now it may feel a little funny at first, and not necessarily true, but stay with me for a moment. Our habit is often one of recreating the past. We do this in the name of truth-telling. Actually, we do it for many reasons.… Continue reading The Creating Game
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Where do you go to feel good? Me, I head to the woods, or the ocean, jagged cliffs or soft sand—any of these will do. As will… Continue reading The Healing Power of Nature
Practice = the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use. There’s no mention of the word “perfect” here. We humans made that up. Practice makes perfect. In mindfulness practice we call this “conditioning.” The stories we make up or get passed down… Continue reading Practice, makes as good as possible
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I cannot speak highly enough of the wisdom of being quiet, or at the very least, taking a pause. Mind you, I am not talking about the silent treatment, or stuffing your feelings or being complicit through silence. Those… Continue reading Getting Quiet
Today is five of five in my exploration of mindful parenting. What keeps coming back to me is how I do anything is how I do everything. How I live my life is directly connected to how I parent. Nothing is separate. It’s not me over here and my kids over there. It includes… Continue reading Mindful Parenting: Divorce, Baby Daddy and Me.
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