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GRACE & GRATITUDE: The Sacred Alchemy
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~~ Melody Beattie
When Appreciation Becomes Embodied Elegance
Last week, we explored how kindfulness awakens capacities in your midlife brain that traditional mindfulness cannot—moving you from detached observer to loving participant in your own life. This week, we’re diving into the sacred alchemy that happens when gratitude and grace dance together in your kindness practice.
But let me start with a confession: I used to roll my eyes at gratitude practices.
Write three things you’re grateful for each day? Keep a gratitude journal? It felt like spiritual bypassing—a way to avoid dealing with the real difficulties of life by painting them with forced positivity.
Then I discovered the neuroscience. And everything changed. continue reading
Kindness is Good Medicine
“Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
~~ Albert Schweitzer
KINDNESS: The Science of Living Your Healing Out Loud
Greetings to all my precious people!!
As we complete our journey through the C.O.A.C.H. Method—from Curiosity through Hope & Healing—many of you have asked: “What’s next? How do I live this transformation in the world?”
The answer has been whispering itself to me for weeks, and this morning it became clear: KINDNESS.
Not the passive, people-pleasing version we’ve been taught. Not the “be nice” conditioning that asks us to diminish ourselves. But kindness as a radical act of embodied healing—the living expression of everything you’ve discovered about yourself through curiosity, optimism, awareness, courage, hope, and healing.
This is kindness as medicine. Kindness as revolution. Kindness as the bridge between your inner transformation and the healing our world desperately needs. continue reading
Embrace Hope to Support Healing
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
and sings the tunes without the words
and never stops at all.”
~~ Emily Dickinson
The Sacred Integration of Wholeness
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve traveled together through the complete landscape of transformation: CURIOSITY opened the door to possibility, OPTIMISM showed us that change is not only possible but scientifically supported, AWARENESS revealed what’s authentically true, and COURAGE gave us the strength to act on that truth.
Now we arrive at the sacred destination that was always calling us home: HOPE & HEALING – the integration of everything you’ve discovered into lived wholeness.
This isn’t the end of our journey. This is where the journey becomes a way of being. continue reading
Reconnect to Your Unattended Spaces
“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow human beings…
this is what our society needs… persons who can “be”, that is,
persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”
~~ Rollo May
Greetings to all my precious people!!
The season of Pisces is upon us and critical conversations are stirring up feelings, dreams, and forgotten wounds. The emotional downloads are potent with opportunities to release and recover, but at the same time we are encouraged to remember that support and wisdom for this journey are available to claim and trust. During the next 18 months, prepare to encounter new dimensions in consciousness, as we all learn how to navigate the world by creating shifts and establishing a new order. continue reading
The Year of Transformation
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation,
so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny
and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony:
this is what furthers and what perseveres.
~~~ I Ching
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are still in the midst of Winter, with freezing temperatures and blustery winds. The snow and freezing rain remind us that we are not in control of the weather! While the landscape appears barren, the ancient cycle of rebirth is occurring deep in the ground, at the root level of the trees. Transformation is constant and ongoing. Change is part of our environment, and the interplay of yin and yang is evident. continue reading
