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
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!
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
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
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...
“It’s not what you say…
it’s how you say it!” This crunchy phrase, said to me in the heat of an exchange, was part of “another fricking ‘growth opportunity” (AGFO), and the phrase resonated deeply. (It seems like the last AGFO was not long ago. Accelerated learning curve, I guess!) I wonder if this phrase has meaning for you… if so, I’d be pleased to hear...
Hope
As I write this, the Gaelic festival of Imbolc has literally just begun. It is also just after Groundhog Day and the Christian festival of Candlemas. I find that these holidays share a common theme: Hope. The feature image I chose for this post shows Snowdrops, also called Candlemas Bells, and they are said to symbolize...
Gratitude and Perception: A New Twist
Today is Thanksgiving for many of my family and friends. If that includes you, or did, Happy Thanksgiving! Even if you’re not celebrating this holiday, there’s still much to be thankful for, eh? 🙂 I continue to be blown away by the huge effect our thoughts and attention have: on our health, well-being, body chemistry,...
“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”
Recently I was unexpectedly struck by the heroic courage and commitment of one woman, and the difference she has made speaking out in support of other women, at home and around the world. The title of this post is something Hillary Clinton said in Beijing in 1995. Imagine that courage! I invite you to take...
Wild – Benefitting All Beings
Heartfelt thanks to my lovely friend and fellow travelling companion to revolutionary Egypt, Corina Bloom, for citing a section of Paul Hawken’s talk (given at the 2012 Bioneer’s Conference. The whole talk is deeply moving. The material quoted starts about minute 14). Hawking invites us to recognize and accept the wildness in us, in the natural world,...
