Maybe you’ve heard the adage, “Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” We may value and appreciate the transformative power of forgiveness, but no one really tells us HOW to do it. When it comes to trauma, betrayal, unwanted events and the violence that has happened to us in the past, forgiveness and letting going […]
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In my energy healing practice, I often hear people say that their heart is telling them one thing, and their brain another. I imagine we have all been in this state: one in which we are living in a state of inner conflict. We feel an expectation from some unspoken agreement or the pressure of
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There\’s certainly no one-size fits all structure for assessing life, but when it comes to looking at the relationships, conditions, environments and situations of our life that create stress in our bodymind, sometimes a simple framework is useful to begin sorting things out. It\’s an art to become objective about our subjective human experience. In
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It started out as an ordinary family holiday, everyone gathered in the kitchen, the happy din of chatter and laughter, people cooking, people playing games at the kitchen table. We eagerly anticipated the feast. I was sitting at the table having a delightful conversation with a family member who was in her first year of
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It was a real epiphany to me the day I realized meditation wasn\’t about stopping my thoughts or \”watching them float across my mind like clouds across a sky,\” as some suggest. Not helpful! It was like a mental hurricane up there in my brain, the barrage of thoughts zipping and swirling, and the more
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