Holistic Health
The Healing Gift of Self-Compassion
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
Greetings to all my precious people!!
There’s a quality of softness I keep trying to carry home with me — the kind I always find in slower places, where time is measured in togetherness and not in hours. You can feel it when people gather just to sit and talk, when mornings are unhurried and the birdsong gets a chance to be heard. That softness is available to us anywhere, but most of us have to consciously choose it, because the pace of modern life conspires against it. continue reading
Speaking Your Heart Outloud
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“Courage starts with showing up
and letting ourselves be seen.”
— Brené Brown
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Longtime readers may remember The C.O.A.C.H. Method I’ve shared over the years — five movements I keep returning to: Curiosity (the radical act of not knowing), Optimism (hope as a practice), Awareness (seeing what’s actually true), Courage, and Healing. (New here? Welcome — you’ve arrived right where you need to be.) This week I want to dwell on the one that turns insight into action: COURAGE.
This is where insight becomes action. Where awareness meets the world. Where your authentic truth gets to have a voice. This is where transformation moves from internal to embodied. continue reading
Finding Your Voice
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“There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.”
~~ Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!
Last month on Mother’s Day, I wrote about the first voice you ever heard: your mother’s voice.
Today, I’m writing about the voice she gave you. Not just the sound of your voice (though that’s part of it). But the POWER of your voice. The capacity to name what you see, speak what you know, call things by their true names, say NO and mean it, say YES and claim it, take up sonic space in the world.
Your mother gave you this. Through her body. Through her voice teaching you language. Through the vocal cords she grew inside you.
And then—over years of conditioning—you learned to silence it. continue reading
The Quiet Beneath the Noise
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“I have arrived, I am home.”
~~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We have cleared physical space. We have released ancestral patterns.
Now we arrive at the most persistent layer of homecoming: the mental clutter.
The planning. The strategizing. The constant need to figure it out, know what’s next, have all the answers. The 3am thought loops. The voice that says you’re not doing enough, being enough, achieving enough.
The noise.
We live in a culture designed to keep you mentally occupied. Distracted. Scrolling. Consuming information. Comparing. Planning. Optimizing.
But your soul is trying to speak. And it can’t be heard over the noise.
This week, as we approach Thanksgiving in the US – a time traditionally about gratitude and gathering – I want to invite you into something countercultural:
The practice of sacred not-knowing. Of creating mental space. Of coming home to the quiet.
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.
