Some of the most important use of time and energy is to restore our relationships with the living world…and to do this with as much heart as we can. Over the years, I have met some amazing people from all over the world doing just this… They are honing their life ways…refining ~ reskilling ~ … Continue reading
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The Toughest Work and Integration
Some notes on trauma, integration, and wholeness: The toughest work is loving yourself and arriving home in your own skin, inviting all parts of you back home. Then, the toughest work is extending beyond that skin into the world with expression, creation, and action…as if just learning to walk and be human. Once we connect … Continue reading
The Importance of Enduring Discomfort for the Sake of Transformation
I was thinking about various parts of this post today. So many wonderful gems to glean from this one! Learning the art of saying NO is very important. When it’s time to say yes…it’s not just yes…it’s HELL YEAH! Enjoy the read (smile).
Humans, Wildness, and the Web of Life
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on what is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.” ~ Egyptian king Thamus in Plato’s Phaedrus This morning in meditation, like many mornings that I … Continue reading
One Nation Under Trauma
“The simple truth is that every single civilization, including the western world, was brought into being from a sacred place to serve a sacred purpose. And when that purpose is forgotten, when its original alignment gets lost, when the fundamental balance and harmony of its existence become disrupted beyond a certain point, then nature has … Continue reading
Porn Kills Love
In our culture, where pornography wields a mighty $13 billion each year (and climbing), none of us are separate from the impact it is having on sexuality and intimacy. Is it surprising that the largest consumer of internet porn are male tweens, commonly seeing their first hard porn on the internet by the ripe age … Continue reading
Gratitude and Reflections
2014 Reflections ~ Madhupa Maypop What a journey it has been this year! This past year has been about revealing, revealing, and then more revealing. Some of my most personal and intimate information (via my blog post “I Was Born to Do This”) was unearthed this year and it’s just the beginning. I do hope … Continue reading
Family Constellations and the Great Untangling
The darkest day of the year for *we in the temperate world* nears… December 21st, Sunday will be the day. We’ve reached the depths of Winter and the days will *ever so slowly* begin to lengthen as the tired arms of coldness reach for spring sun-rays. And so, I’ve been reaching for warming herbs, lately. … Continue reading
The Honored Middle and Gut Health
Some thoughts on gut health ~ Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) say that gut health actually provides the necessary ingredients to protect the heart (where spirit or “shen” resides). In Japan, the large intestine is referred to as both the “honored middle” (onaka) and “center of the spiritual and physical strength” (hara). The soul … Continue reading
Releasing that Summer Heat
Oh where to begin!? There’s so much going on in the plant kingdom that needs our awareness ~ from ripening berries to blossoms showing off to pollinators to trees adding another ring of growth. The Summer Solstice is this weekend which marks the longest day of the year. We are at our peak in terms … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 