Holistic Health
DISCERNMENT: The Art of Knowing What to Keep
“Love and compassion don’t at all have to make us weak,
or lead us to losing discernment and vision.
We just have to learn how to find them.
And see, in truth, what they bring us.”
– Sharon Salzberg
Greetings to all my precious people!!
There’s a moment every Autumn when you walk outside and suddenly know – not think, but know – that everything has shifted. The light falls differently. The air carries both the fullness of harvest and the promise of release. Your body recognizes what your mind might miss: this is the season of discernment, when Nature herself demonstrates the profound art of knowing what to keep and what to let go.
Trust & Truth: The Integration Practice
“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.”
~~ Rumi
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve completed an extraordinary journey together. From kindness as embodied healing through awakening, grace, contribution, joy, possibility, resilience, remembering ancient wisdom, self-compassion, and surrender—we arrive at the integration point: TRUST & TRUTH.
Not the small truths of personal preference or opinion. Not the rigid truths that exclude complexity and paradox. But the living truth of who you’ve become through this journey—and the radical trust required to offer that authentic medicine to a world that needs exactly what you’ve learned to give.
This is where everything comes together: trusting your healing journey enough to live your truth out loud.
REMEMBER: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
~~ African Proverb
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve journeyed through kindness as embodied healing, awakened to kindfulness, discovered grace through gratitude, explored contribution as medicine, found joy in service, expanded our vision of midlife possibility, and redefined resilience as community strength. This week, we turn to something our individualistic culture has almost forgotten: REMEMBER.
CONTRIBUTION: Your Healing is a Gift to the World
“The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.”
~~ Pablo Picasso
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve journeyed together through kindness as embodied healing, awakened to kindfulness as warm-hearted presence, and discovered how gratitude alchemizes into grace. This week, we explore the profound truth that many of you have been feeling: your healing journey was never just about you.
Every moment you chose curiosity over judgment, optimism over cynicism, awareness over denial, courage over comfort—you weren’t just healing yourself. You were preparing to become medicine for the world.
This is the week we explore CONTRIBUTION—not as depletion or obligation, but as the natural flowering of a life lived with authentic intention. continue reading
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
