Posts tagged "healing"
My Dance With Pain: Exciting Updates!

My Dance With Pain: Exciting Updates!

Twenty years ago I wrote a post called My Dance with Pain, about significant discomfort that I had in my body: where it was, how it felt, how it migrated, what I understood at the time, what I learned… Now I am thrilled to share exciting new information that has radically changed my experience of...
Live Out Loud the Language of Love

Live Out Loud the Language of Love

How can we live out loud the language of love? Let us count the ways. So many horrific, inspiring, catastrophic, compassionate events have happened in the last year, the last months, the last days that I don’t feel willing or able to try to say anything original about what has transpired.  But I am drawn to share this with...
Self-Loathing: Feeling It, Healing It!

Self-Loathing: Feeling It, Healing It!

The experience of Self-loathing is the pits! Well do I know. ‘Self-loathing is that underlying feeling that we are just not good: not good enough, not good at this, not good at that, not good at … . It can be subtle, we may …compare ourselves to others,…find fault with ourselves, put ourselves down, we may...
Choose Connection

Choose Connection

Choosing Connection is not always my natural inclination.  In fact, while I have dealt with fears about being alone, it’s casual company rather than deep connection that is more within my comfort zone.  With people I don’t know for sure, and sometimes even with people I’m close to.  So when I came across the poem, Choose Connection*,...
Healing and the Heart

Healing and the Heart

We have just celebrated International Women’s Day, and I am feeling grateful for the abundance of remarkable women in my life, and in the world.   Elizabeth May, the only Green Party member of the Canadian Parliament, just sent out a note about a “dream” she had, that she had become Prime Minister, and had appointed...