Nourishing

How we get hooked in – by Yours Truly (who is not a scientist, not even close): Note: This excerpt is a continuation of my last post: “Fear Fall: It’s a Mind Field Out There.” [...]

“The mind can do some amazing things with very little data and evidence. In five minutes I had gone on a whirlwind tour of my worst nightmare, based on nothing more than an innocent inquiry [...]

  “Don’t let them think that we’ve broken down; that we’ve cracked up. We’ve merely dropped leaves for further spring.”–Rumi.     Yesterday I [...]

“I want to shed my waste with quiet reverence like the pine…Keep me mindful of what I take into my home, the items brought to substitute for real living… Help me slowly to surrender all excess.” [...]

Labor. It sounds so… um, painful. And exhausting. Yet, we spend most of our days unconsciously laboring… Laboring at the computer, laboring over what to wear, laboring over what to [...]

My lower back spassed out last week while I was helping my husband assemble the large pieces that would become the new Adirondack chairs for the patio. One mindless lift of a chair part, one [...]

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe. Any questions? I love this message by Arthur Ashe. It assumes that every moment is a new moment, we have everything we [...]

“Most [traditional] clearing efforts do not make room for us to feel our feelings, honor our ebbs and flows, create a container of safety, embrace our shadow side, or allow us to be more [...]

“Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now.” –Rumi Stillness. What if it could be as simple as turning on a switch inside you? An [...]

When Anne Dimon, editor of Travel to Wellness, offered me the opportunity to become a regular contributor for the magazine, my first reaction was an enthusiastic yes! I love travel, and what [...]