Wise Teaching: You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. - Rumi Words: Dignified, courageous, fire, heat, radiant heat. Thoughts/quote: Transform fear! Transform fear into its natural and dynamic partner - EXCITEMENT. Excitement leads to risk, adventure, dancing on the edge. Fear properly channeled...[ read more ]
Wise Teaching: Insist on yourself, never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. - Emerson Words: Vibrancy, alive, unapologetic, kind, positive, real Thoughts/quote What if you were born whole. What if there is nothing to fix. What if you reached in and embraced the messy and vibrant reality of...[ read more ]
Wise Teaching: If there is but one force which feeds the root of pain, it is the refusal to learn beyond this moment. (author unknown) Words: Scrappy, messy Thoughts/quote: Maybe there is nothing wrong with you, maybe it's what happened to you. Journal Prompt: How do you pollute your own body image? What do you do that contributes to your...[ read more ]
I recently read the most beautiful essay a client shared with me describing her journey into the darkness of an eating disorder. She captured the slow creep and spread of how it initially begins and then the ultimate capture the grip takes once it is in control. The last line of the essay really struck me: My eating disorder crept...[ read more ]
Dancing, singing, story telling Using our bodies and using our voices Moving our bodies and embodying our voices. Connection. Making Sound. Making waves. Vibration. Frequency. Transparency. Authenticity. Did we stop? When did we stop? Why? Why not still dance with the same feet you used to? Why not still sing and let the world or the forest or the car...[ read more ]
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. That is the book. Of all the books, for me, this is the one on top. My first copy fell apart. I somehow was lucky enough to stumble upon it at the right time. A wise woman gave it to me, she knew I was ready. I read it...[ read more ]
A Prayer for the Living - Jeff Foster Life Break in me whatever needs to be broken. Fix my hope of ever being fixed. Draw every ounce of creativity out of me. Help me live a radically unique life, Forever forging a never-before-trodden path in the forest. Show me how to love more deeply than I ever thought possible. Whatever...[ read more ]
Wise Teaching Do you have the patience to wait until your mind settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself? - Lao-Tzu Words Openness, flexibility, curiosity, more, spaciousness Thoughts/Quotes “I need to social-distance from my negative body image thoughts.” “You have to learn how to be still and by learning how...[ read more ]