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How to Find Joy!
“We need joy as we need air.
We need love as we need water.
We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
— Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are in the middle days of August, savoring the last of summer’s abundant light and warmth as our bodies and minds begin, almost imperceptibly, to prepare themselves for autumn. Moving from one season to the next asks for small adjustments — to our Qi, to our daily rhythms. This is a lovely moment to create some quiet, to let the great Yang excitement of summer settle, and to reflect on the memories we’ve made while we begin to imagine what we want to grow in the seasons ahead.
This week, the theme is JOY — that effervescent feeling, be it bliss, gaiety, or simple delight. continue reading
We Are Wired to Heal!!
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“What if there really is no divide between science and spirituality?
Is the ability to heal ourselves science fiction, or actually science-based? What would the world look like if we were truly awakened to the depths of our healing potential?”
~~ Dr. Shamini Jain, PhD
Greetings to all my precious people!
For decades, if you talked about energy healing, consciousness-based medicine, or the body’s innate capacity to heal, you were dismissed as “woo woo.”
Unscientific. Magical thinking. New Age nonsense.
But what if science is finally catching up to what mystics have known for millennia?
What if the divide between science and spirit never actually existed?
Your Symptoms are the Breadcrumbs Home
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“Eastern medicine helps us understand how what we do, think,
feel, eat, buy and expose ourselves to,
affects our bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships.”
~~ Dr. Claudia Welch
Greetings to all my precious people!
Here is a radical thought to consider:
What if your symptoms aren’t problems?
What if they’re not proof something’s wrong with you, not evidence of failure, not signs you’re broken?
What if they’re breadcrumbs?
Breadcrumbs your body is leaving to guide you HOME.
How We’re Taught to See Symptoms
Western medicine teaches: Symptom = problem. Problem = fix it.
Headache → take pill
Exhaustion → drink coffee
Anxiety → medicate
Weight gain → restrict calories
Insomnia → sleep aid
Pain → suppress it
The goal: Make symptoms go away.
The assumption: Body is malfunctioning.
But what if that’s backwards?
The Homesickness No One Talks About
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“I am Pure Soul. I am Pure Soul. I am Pure Soul.
I am infinite knowledge. I am infinite vision. I am infinite energy.
I am the abode of infinite bliss.”
~~ Dr. Seema Khaneja
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Let me name what you might not have words for:
You are HOMESICK.
Not for a place. Not for a time. Not even for a person.
You are homesick for yourself. For SOURCE. For the Truth of who you are beneath everything you’ve learned to perform.
What Dr. Seema Khaneja Discovered
Dr. Seema Khaneja is a board-certified pediatrician (Mount Sinai, Cornell). Traditional medical training. Emergency room rotations. The whole Western medicine path.
But she knew something was missing.
Even as a medical student, she felt a call for healing that couldn’t be answered within the confines of medicine. She studied Ayurveda, mind-body medicine with Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard, homeopathy, yoga, meditation.
And still, something ached.
Until she went deeper with A Course in Miracles and discovered what she calls Attitudinal Healing.
Her definition: “Health is inner peace. Healing is the letting go of fear.”
Not health as lab values. Not healing as symptom resolution.
Health as the experience of being HOME in yourself.
You Can’t Go Back But You Can Go Home
“I can’t go back to yesterday
because I was a different person then.”
~~ Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Greetings to all my precious people!!
You’ve changed.
Maybe you don’t want to admit it. Maybe it’s uncomfortable. Maybe the people around you wish you’d go back to being who you were.
But you can’t.
Alice knew this. Once you fall down the rabbit hole, once you see what you’ve seen, once you wake up even a little—you can’t go back to yesterday.
You were a different person then.
What’s Actually Happening
Here’s what I’ve witnessed in 20 years of working with women’s bodies:
There’s a moment when women realize they can’t keep living the way they’ve been living.
Not because they’re failing. Not because something’s wrong with them.
Because they’ve outgrown the old container.
Like the Snake shedding skin. Like Alice growing too big for the room.
You’ve changed. And the old ways don’t fit anymore.
The old strategies:
- Pushing through exhaustion
- Ignoring your body’s signals
- Performing who you think you should be
- Fixing yourself to fit someone else’s expectations
- Numbing the ache with busyness, food, screens, anything
They don’t work anymore.
Not because you’re broken. Because you’re WAKING UP.
