Healing After Loss: Birthdays, Vulnerability and Blessed Connections October 16, 2013 • 0 Comments This past weekend I had the good fortune to attend the 50th birthday party of a dear friend. She is a rare gem, one of those unique humans who naturally finds the good in people and nurtures friendships with attentive love and care. I had fallen out of orbit the last few years, so it was incredibly healing to reel…
The Healing Benefits of Bone Broth Soup October 14, 2013 • 2 Comments [With the cooler fall weather settling in and seasonal colds on the rise, I thought it’d be a good time to dust off my post on the healing benefits of bone broth soup.] If I had known about bone broth three years ago, I might have saved myself (and my poor stomach) some grief. I know about it now, so…
Healing Leaky Gut & Restoring Intuition: Leaky Gut Diet, Resources, More October 11, 2013 • 0 Comments “Most people, including many physicians, do not realize that 80 percent of your immune system is located in your digestive system, making a healthy gut a major focal point if you want to maintain optimal health.” Dr. Joseph Mercola, MD I continue to be fascinated by my self-created connection between leaky gut and diminished intuition. I wrote about this in…
Duality: Holding Opposite Emotions Within You October 9, 2013 • 0 Comments “If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn…
On Body Image and Being Enough October 7, 2013 • 2 Comments When I was an impressionable young girl my mother was larger than life, thin as a rail and favored cigarettes to eating. She subsisted on cottage cheese, See’s candy and vodka, and she looked damn good in clothes. While her contemporaries fell victim to the vagaries of middle age weight gain, she managed to defy it. I was never quite…
The Healing Process: It’s a Marathon September 30, 2013 • 2 Comments “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas A. Edison Fifteen years ago I ran a marathon with the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training program. The spark for this adventure began when a friend of mine was in training for a marathon and I made the comment that there was no…
Befriending Stress and Creating Resiliency September 25, 2013 • 2 Comments I recently saw a TED talk by Kelly McGonigal on befriending stress. It is worth watching because she outlines a deceptively simple concept: changing the way we think about something can alter our body’s response to it. My favorite part of her talk is the idea that how you think and act creates the “biology of courage.” In other words,…
Healing Resources: Sit. Stay. Heal. September 20, 2013 • 0 Comments I am a big fan of Pema Chödrön and I adore her book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times. I opened the pages many times during the last three years and found myself guided and comforted by the simple, yet profound wisdom on the pages. One of my favorite passages: “How are we going…
Unearthing Hidden Trauma and Beginning to Heal September 18, 2013 • 3 Comments Life exposes both her beauty and her cruel underbelly to us at the moment of birth, as we take our first breath in and the umbilical cord is severed. As we exchange the life giving connection to our mother for the life force of oxygen, the universe whispers to us that this is an invitation to embark on a journey,…
Healing Trauma: Vulnerability Is the New Black September 16, 2013 • 0 Comments I had a conversation with a woman I adore the other day about healing and spirituality, two of my favorite subjects. This woman is all heart, having been on her own painful journey, so we don’t have to pretend or mince words. These are my favorite kind of folks: the ones who don’t flinch when facing taboo or uncomfortable subjects.…