Category: seasonal
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Season of the sticks
I absolutely love the fall and look forward to it every year. It is a time of year to really lean in to the awe that the season offers as we prepare for more surrender as we approach late fall into winter. Mother nature wisely models for us to include both awe and surrender as…
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Releasing expectations
Lately I have been thinking about expectations, it is now summer and we all have some sort of expectations about what a ‘good summer’ should be like. We all have expectations, expectations about how our life should unfold, how our children and spouse should behave and the meridian of expectations we hold for ourselves down…
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Timeless yoga wisdom, exploring the Klesas
“Ignorance consists of regarding a transient object as everlasting” – Yoga Sutra 11.5 and a parallel saying from the Bible: “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For…
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The light within
What type of practices do you have to help you remember your goodness, the story that was written on your heart by God and not by humanity? Let’s face it life can be challenging when we do not purposely and frequently put on our own ‘life jacket’ or remember the practices that move us to…
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Our Daily Bread
Have you every noticed when someone is going through a hard time, even you perhaps, the common saying is “I can’t wait to get my life back”. Other times people tend to want to get their life back is when they have children… “I can’t wait to get my body back after the pregnancy”, I…
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Choosing Harmony in the Darkness
I haven’t blogged in a week or two because a lot of my energy was diverted to assist with a sudden family illness. Please note that I said a lot of my energy and not all of it! I think when times get really tough, we tend to throw in the self-care towel feeling that…
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Choosing Harmony in the New Year
A few years ago, at a new year gathering with a few trusted friends, we pondered our word of the year. One of my friends pulled out a very large list of words and she suggested we circle those that caught our eye and then narrow it down to one word. My chosen word was…
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New Year’s Evolution
I have never been a fan of new year’s resolutions. To me it implies a lack of trust in ourselves to truly love, nurture and care for ourselves. In the end we should know in our bones that self-care is not optional and should come from a place of love and not arise from a…
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Choosing Joy in the Advent Season
As we enter the third week of advent, I was musing about what the word advent means. Ok, I know what it means from a Christian perspective but what are the roots of the word? A simple definition of advent is arrival as we can see when we trace the origin of the word from…
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Choosing Peace in the Advent Season
Most of us are familiar with the Christmas story and how Jesus entered the world. The Jews had been waiting for the Messiah for so long, some had begun to lose hope. The reading of his arrival into a cold manger in Bethlehem can be a tradition that helps us feel Jesus’s sweet presence. The…
Therapeutic Temple Musings 