Meditation
The three tenets of meditation
There are three tenets of meditation: awareness, clarity and equanimity. These are the principles of meditation. They are also the practice of medi...
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Make space for the struggle
We tend to seek comfort in life. Many of us avoid the struggle and cling to whatever alleviates our discomfort. We have stopped listening to the wi...
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Beautifully belonging
My parents, and their parents, were displaced. Forced from their Lithuanian birthplace and their homeland. A result of Germany and Russia fighting ...
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Memoir
The gift of suffering
My legs move up and down, my feet round and round as I pedal on the exercise bike in our little makeshift backyard gym. The sun is licking the floo...
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Self care
Surviving and Thriving
A dear friend and I connected recently about sometimes feeling like we are surviving, but not thriving. She asked me to muse and write about this. ...
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Meditation
Somatic Meditation
Somatic meditation is a healing and grounding earth connection practice. It is a meditation where we return to our beginning, again and again. Soma...
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Self care
Tenderly Tethered
There is a beautiful string which tenderly tethers your awareness to your body. A thin thread, not dissimilar to the strands of a spider's silk. Be...
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Self care
Unconditional Joy
There is a joy living deep inside us. It is always there no matter the circumstances. Like unconditional love, this joy requires no set circumstanc...
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Grief
The Teachings of Tulips
Last week I ordered a bunch of tulips in honour of the memory of a friend. I remember them being one of her favourite flowers. She bought them for ...
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Grief
Sculptor of the Heart
When your heart breaks open and falls to the ground in tiny pieces, the sculptor of the heart comes and gently gathers them. She picks up the bigge...
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Life
I am enough
For sometime, I thought abundance was about more. More joy. More money. More of whatever it was I desired. This worked for me for quiet a while. An...
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Life
Awakening abundance
I have been on a journey. It started with my relationship with money and has led to a connection with abundance. My trusted companions on this incr...
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Grief
The wisdom of death
What is death but the breath of life. Death is perhaps one of our greatest teachers. It gives great clarity to what is important. It has a way o...
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