The space between endings and beginnings. Sometimes it’s just a moment. A breath of time. A flutter really. Something barely acknowledged. We’re off and running with the next step forward.
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This is a story about how we talk to ourselves and listen to our bodies. This is my story of awakening to my wholeness.Last year at this time I spent my birthday in the ER, an I.V. attached to my arm, injecting what the doctor jokingly referred to as “our migraine cocktail of choice.”
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So, you failed. Or, you feel like you did anyway. "It" didn't work. The house, the job, the creation, the relationship—whatever "it" was didn't pan out. Not even close. I don't need to tell you what I'm disappointed about for you to know what I mean.
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She lives in each of us. We are HER.
Sometimes we just forget.Growing up in the ’70s my favorite outside play, once I had my own banana seat bike (aka. invisible jet!), was to act out the two female superheroes on TV – Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman.
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I feel the need to tell you the story of a rooster. For starters it’s the year of the rooster in Chinese astrology and we clearly have a rooster in the White House and it’s stirring s**t up.Well, we have a full-fledged rooster in our hen house now too.
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Are you stuck in what ISN'T working for you right now? Often we lose sight of what IS working in our life when the thing we really want isn't flowing as we wish it to. I recorded an audio blog post the other day as I was musing over this idea for myself.
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At the start of 2016 my divorce was finalized. It wasn’t something I wanted or was prepared for, but I made it through with grit and grace, and for that I celebrated.My word for 2016 was commitment. A new commitment made now that my marriage was ended.
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[For you, for me, for we. My hope in sharing this way in which I unpacked one of many challenging days as a single parent is that you will find yourself too. In these words, the range of feelings, I hope you will feel less alone.
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If I don't put attention on how I move through the holidays I find myself burning out by New Years.
The Halloween candy is on sale, costumes still scattered on the bedroom floor. Isn't it early to be talking about this?I don't think so. Nope.
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Often what we most want for our children is born of our own deepest struggles from childhood.
It may be the one thing you've carried with you all the way to their birth and beyond. If you pause for a moment I bet you can name yours.
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I just finished reading a copy of Mary Pipher's, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World. It showed up in my life, like many of the books I have read over the past three years of transition and transformation, at just the right time. (Sometimes, I think I must have a personal librarian in the sky and I'm deeply grateful for it.)
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I'm reminded of the first year we had chickens in our backyard city homestead. I was trying to plant our annual bean seeds to grow up the trellis (which we also used as a natural way to block our view of the neighbors chain link fencing). These were dual action beans with a purpose. Anyone who has had chickens knows that letting them free range and trying to grow a garden from seed can be a loosing battle.
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