“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” --Carl Jung
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As we approach Halloween and Day of the Dead, I like to tune into the connection between spirit and matter.
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Maybe I should have known better, but recently I reposted something on Facebook about respect. Or at least that was the message that spoke to me.
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It’s back-to-school season and as my daughter starts her senior year I’m in a state of amazement. Am I really almost at the next stage of parenting?
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This week, three people sent me an article about Dr. Joseph Mercola, the multi-millionaire osteopath who began his practice in the Chicago area. Dr. Mercola is now considered the #1 spreader of vaccine disinformation worldwide.
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A few days ago, just hours after the summer solstice, a tornado came tearing through the western suburbs of Chicago and touched down roughly two miles from my house.
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Fifteen days ago I committed to doing thirty minutes of Whalebreathing every day for ninety days. With each passing day, I’m becoming more aware of how much my body is waking up.
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As we come out of a difficult year, we have to balance our desire to get moving with the reality that nesting has become pretty comfortable! We may want to stay in one place, but we’re being called to move forward into a new paradigm.
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Recently, my daughter came home after a hard day feeling scattered and overwhelmed. She needed me to listen to her without giving advice.
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Last week my former husband Israel lost his mother to COVID-19. This happened three weeks after he lost his father, also to COVID-19.
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“Life is so inherently flawless, even when emotions get suppressed, the Universe gently moves you one step closer to cultivating the strength and courage to face your feelings directly.”
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Some astronomers believe that the “star of Bethlehem” in the Nativity story was actually a conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars.
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” –Carl Jung
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It was as if I heard a clear voice ask: Why hang on to the pain? I realized that it is okay to let go of suffering and acknowledge that my body has been doing the best it can.
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My first whale encounter occurred in Tonga, an island near Fiji. I had never been on a plane for 15 hours, and had never flown over so much ocean.
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This week I said goodbye to my 10-year-old Basset Hound, Rocky. We had been treating him for years for Addison’s disease but it was only in the last year and a half that his health declined, most likely due to cancer.
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Today I was taking a walk when I noticed my shadow and wondered what would happen if I looked down and my shadow didn’t exist?
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As I reflect on these chaotic times, I find it difficult to unravel one single thread from the knot of current events. We have so much coming up to be healed: a pandemic, racism, political division—the list goes on.
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This week marks the anniversary of a painful and profoundly meaningful moment in my life. I lost my newborn baby, Catherine Rose, seventeen years ago. Blooming Rose Healing was named in her honor.
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Though life does seem determined to be a beautiful, and entrancing distraction...our participation in this dance of distraction also makes more real, and more necessary, our ability to return to essential ground, to an essential person or an essential work. -David Whyte
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