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AS WE ROLL FROM APRIL INTO MAY, IT FELT NATURAL TO PULL ON A THREAD THAT WAS PART OF OUR APRIL THEME OF CLEARING OUT: RETENTION. Because sometimes amidst the fervor of Clearing Out, the flush of liberation that often accompanies acts of release, letting go, dusting until everything sparkles – we can overlook the […]
Following on our theme of Clearing Out for this month, let’s shift to the next stage in the process – actively working with the YES and NO piles that came from your Last Season’s Accumulations exercise. Thus far, the choices you’ve made are seated primarily in intention, not instant actuation.
This time of year, I get a little mad. As in loony, zealous, dotty, wacky. I start to feel the rising itch to shed all the heavy winter layers, of which there are always many. And it usually seems to happen overnight.
Can you hear it? That pulse? The steady thrum of ground beginning to rise and fall, earth turning over on itself as it stretches from a long, luxurious nap, ready to uncurl its winter-frozen spine? You may not hear it right away.
Authenticity, marked by a genuine attunement to the soul, feeds our resilience. When we push against our true nature, the very thing that is intended to have us unfold in our greatness, that rebellion wears us down, makes us less able to respond to the challenges of the world, strips us of the resource to
OUR RESILIENCE IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO OUR ABILITY TO SUSTAIN. As we are stretched and challenged by circumstance, relationships, children, world news, climate events, the ebb and flow of our own inner landscape – the demands on our resilience undeniable – it is our ability to keep going, to willingly wrap our arms around the
Suspension can be complicated. On the one hand, it can feel like freedom made real, our limbs dangling weightless in space, no burden to bear, no landing to be stuck, no commitments to be made. The Great Liberation that all wild hearts seek! On the other hand, it can hold us in a frozen state
If you know me at all, you know I’m a big fan of thresholds. Gateways. Portals. Passthroughs that usher us from one cycle to the next. An invitation for us to pause, reflect, step over that invisible line with intention and presence. We cross dozens of thresholds a day from the moment of waking to the moment
This time of year always seems to be marked by a study in opposites. On the one hand, there is the aliveness, the awakeness, the joy and celebration that comes with the holiday time. Twinkle lights hanging on trees, caroling music playing everywhere (and I do mean everywhere), and a sense of people letting go of
What of this word TOLERATE? A word that easily draws itself as a line in the sand, a firm press of the Sharpie marker onto the page with “what I will tolerate” on one side and “what I won’t tolerate” on the other. It makes for a tidy and potent elevator pitch, a quick visual
