Women’s Health
The Threshold & The Doorway: Surrender into Certainty
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“The natural healing force within each of us
is the greatest force in getting well.”
~~ Hippocrates
Greetings to all my precious people,
We have arrived at the door we’ve been walking toward since the first cool morning in September.
Samhain — the Celtic New Year — falls this week. Tonight, the old traditions say, the veil between worlds goes thin enough to cross. Not frightening, exactly, though it can feel that way if you’ve been taught to fear the dark rather than trust it. The ancestors are said to walk close on this night. The harvest is fully in. The wheel completes its turn and, in the same breath, begins again.
This is the final beat of the journey we’ve been walking together all Autumn — the hero returning, not to where she started, but somewhere new, carrying something she didn’t have when she left. The old stories call this the Return with the Elixir. For weeks, I’ve asked you to trust an ember, tend a root, survive a shedding you didn’t fully choose. Here is the truth those weeks were building toward: the elixir was never out there. It isn’t a lesson you bring back from the underworld like a souvenir. It’s the natural healing force Hippocrates named more than two thousand years ago — the one that was in you before any of this Autumn began, simply waiting for enough clearing to be recognized. continue reading
Your Healing Was **Never** Just About You
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“In the shelter of each other, the people live.”
(Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine)
~~ Irish proverb
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Longtime readers will remember The C.O.A.C.H. Method I return to again and again — Curiosity, Optimism, Awareness, Courage, and Hope & Healing. (New here? Welcome. You’ve arrived right where you need to be.) Today I want to follow that path one step further than we usually go — past your own healing, to the quiet truth that so many of you have been sensing lately:
Your healing journey was never just about you. continue reading
What Do You Need Right Now?
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“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do
is be on my own side.”
— Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!!
What do you need right now?
When was the last time you actually checked in with your Self and asked? We are exquisitely attuned to the needs of everyone else. We know when the baby needs feeding, when the dog needs walking, when our people need a hug, a nap, a snack. But us? How often do we touch base with our own precious Self and ask what needs tending?
Just let that settle for a moment. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Place your hand over your heart — and ask: What do I need right now? continue reading
Health is Wealth: The Wisdom of Late Summer
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Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are in the “dog days” of summer — that long, sultry stretch the ancient Romans named diēs caniculārēs for the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, alongside the Sun. But even as the heat peaks, the wheel is already turning. Chinese Medicine recognizes a fifth season the West often misses: Late Summer — the transitional time when summer’s extreme Yang, all brightness and heat, begins to yield and soften into the cooler Yin of autumn. continue reading
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
