"Wisdom begins in wonder." ~Socrates

Grief: a Transformative Energy

Grief: a Transformative Energy

We all know this feeling well. Most of us were taught not to acknowledge grief and, instead, to push that feeling down. I was. I wasn’t taught how to grieve.  We, as an American culture, have mastered the technique of numbing it out in a lot of different ways: binge...

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Playing: Are you?

Playing: Are you?

I gotta to say, this hasn’t been something I have been consistent with lately, yet I know it is so nourishing for me. What is play for adults? Brene Brown’s definition of play and her 7 signs of play really ring true for me.  Her basic definition of Play is doing...

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Feel your Joy

Feel your Joy

There is an innate Joy that lives in our core. Each one of us. It is our birthright to feel this joy, to  know it and to remember this Joy is hardwired in us.  Joy has always been here, inside all of us. Inside you. Inside me. And, often, we have to consciously make...

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Wordology

Wordology

I had a teacher, about 20 years ago, share with me the phrase: “Wordology is our biology.” At the time, I didn’t know what it meant, and, it felt familiar and true. A few years later I stumbled across a book, The Biology Of Belief, by Bruce Lipton. He described  the...

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Pause

Pause

Pause. Breathe deeply. Let your body relax-just where it is in this moment. Breathe. Feel the influx of energies that are shifting internally and globally. It is present. In this moment, just be with what is: the fear, the Love, the discomfort, the Calm, the anger,...

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Hug a Tree today!

Hug a Tree today!

Ah! Have you Hugged “your” tree today? You know, the one that’s in your backyard, favorite park, or along the path you often go to for quietness. Have you Ever hugged a tree?  I began, consciously, hugging trees when I was a teenager, I don’t know why I didn’t start...

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The Wisdom of Nature Emerging

The Wisdom of Nature Emerging

 I was walking next to the river the other day, I paused, I took it all in. Watching the clear water run over rocks and logs underneath the water, watching it move around bigger boulders and down trees. Sticks and leaves bouncing along the top of the water to a...

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The Month of Love is Here

The Month of Love is Here

February known as the month of Love. The month of Love is here, consider embracing this month in a new way. It has been quite a ride in 2020 with the pandemic, the restructuring of routines, the rearranging of priorities and finding new ways of living life in a...

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