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Nurturing Your Spirit: 10 Steps for Creating a Sacred Morning Practice
“The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.” – Rumi In the rush of our daily lives, finding moments of tranquility and connection can be a challenge. We often let our own well-being take a back seat to the hustle and bustle of daily responsibilities. I have seen first-hand the power of nurturing your soul and carving out sacred moments for self-discovery and inner growth, and yet… During the summer it’s easy for me to fall out of my morning routine. ALL the kids are home ALL the time, we’re traveling and away, and honestly, it feels impossible to keep many of our routines…
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5 Ways to Avoid Burnout This Summer
Ah, summertime…the season of sunshine, relaxation, and carefree days. We’ve made our way through a long dark winter where we were dedicated to “being” and inner pursuits like self-reflection and shadow work. In spring, we planted the seeds we’d nurtured over winter, and now we’re ready to stoke our inner fire and let it burn like the hot sun overhead while we take MASSIVE ACTION and GO and DO ALL THE THINGS!!! But let’s pump the brakes here for a second. As we feel pulled toward a thousand adventures and the desire to make the most of this special time, it’s important to avoid over-doing it and flaming out in…
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Are You Getting These 7 Types of Rest?
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” -Brené Brown In our 20’s, my husband and I climbed many a mountain. Most weekends you could find us headed for the mountains straight from work on Fridays with a trunk full of climbing and mountaineering gear. Our longest expedition was on Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska. We were on the mountain for three weeks and every day – every thing – was meticulously planned. Not just the route we would take and the gear we needed. I mean EVERYTHING. We counted out baby wipes and scheduled which days…
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10 Ways to Practice Self-Love
“How you love ourself is how you teach others to love you.” -Rupi Kaur According to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, self-love is “a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support your physical, psychological and spiritual growth. Self-love means having a high regard for your own well-being and happiness. Self-love means taking care of your own needs and not sacrificing your well-being to please others. Self-love means not settling for less than you deserve.” Self-love is an idea that’s bandied about a lot these days. It shows up in so many shallow, unfortunate, and wrong ways. In advertising, entitlement, selfishness, excuses…none of these things are…
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Choosing A Word Of The Year
“The words you speak become the house you live in.” -Hafiz Welcome to a new year! You made it! You survived! Or thrived! But most importantly, you’re here – still standing, and maybe even feeling some lightness and positivity stirring. Turning the page on another year is a natural time of reflection, celebration, and looking with optimism and hope to the year ahead. It’s perfect for thinking about how we want to show up in the world, who we want to be, and how we want to feel and be of service. Today I want to talk about something I’ve done the last few years that’s made a huge difference…
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Choosing Gratitude
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” -Melody Beattie As the days draw us nearer to Thanksgiving, a holiday ALL about giving thanks, I thought I would dive into the practice of gratitude in this month’s post. My guess is that most people consider themselves to be pretty grateful in general, but I wonder how many of us have ever had an intentional, consistent gratitude practice. I haven’t, and after digging into and…
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Shadow Work 101
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” -Carl Jung Let’s Start With a Metaphor, Shall We? Have you ever done an embroidery project? If not, I’m sure most of us have at least seen one. On the front is a beautiful display of color and pattern. But if you turn the embroidery over, you’ll most likely find a big ol’ mess. Embroidery is the metaphor British writer and speaker, Alan Watts, used to describe the Jungian concept of the shadow self. We love to present all of our wonderful qualities to the world, while hiding our “mess” away conveniently in…
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Creating A Sacred Space
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. – Joseph Campbell As we creep ever closer to the beginning of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, the crisp air and short days usher us onto a path of turning inward. These colder fall and winter months are perfect for slowing down, quiet…
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Less Hustle and More Flow
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~Lao Tzu What if you could move through life with more ease? What if things didn’t always have to be so complicated? I know. It sounds laughable. Unbelievable even. Living with ease goes against everything modern society has told us about how life works. Stress, anxiety, striving, grasping, and struggle have all been glorified as the only ways to get ahead, be successful, and make a life for ourselves. We start to feel as if life is a constant battle and we’re all just swimming upstream. Every day we are each called upon to find our own sense of balance between doing too…
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Navigating Liminal Space
“Honor the space between no longer and not yet.” – Nancy Levin Ah, the liminal space. That place between where you’ve been and where you’re going. Where you’re not who you were, but you’re not yet who you’re becoming. Yeah. Super fun. Father Richard Rohr described liminal space perfectly in his newsletter recently: “Liminal space is an inner state and sometimes an outer situation where we can begin to think and act in new ways. It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. We usually enter liminal space when our former way of being is challenged…
