Mindfulness
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
You Are The Magic
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“Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax.”
— Pema Chödrön
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are living in interesting times. For ourselves, our country, the world — there’s rarely a clean, clear signal about what’s beginning and what’s ending. We live in the middle of things, slipping between past, present, and future, partly in harmony and often in confusion, reminded that two opposing things can be true at once. Shift is constant. The emotional clarity we long for can feel just out of reach. continue reading
We Mother Each Other
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“I can promise you that women working together –
linked, informed, and educated –
can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
~~ Isabel Allende
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve spent the month of June exploring:
June 5: Taking up space (reclaiming the belonging mother’s body first taught)
June 12: Finding your voice (speaking from the body mother gave you)
June 19: Healing the mother wound (breaking the lineage pattern)
And now, the final piece: We are the mothers now.
Not just to our children (if we have them). But to each other. continue reading
The Mother Wound
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“The mother wound isn’t about a mother’s love.
It’s about a mother’s capacity.
And healing it is how we honor her by
becoming what she couldn’t be –
not because she failed,
but because she was doing her best with what she had.”
~~ Adapted from Attachment Theory
Greetings to all my precious people,
I want to talk about something tender today.
Not with blame. Not with anger. With deep, fierce compassion.
Because I’ve been sitting with this: The relationship between you and your mother’s body is the relationship you have with your own body.
And if that relationship is wounded, it’s not because your mother didn’t love you. It’s because she couldn’t emotionally attune to you in the way your nervous system needed.
And that matters. Not as blame. As context for healing. continue reading
