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Ants, Quilts, and Emerging (Im)perfections
I recently listened to an old podcast from one of my favorite shows, Radiolab, called Emergence. In it, a scientist who studies ants describes how if you follow one particular ant, you will see chaos and seeming futility of activity. For example, she explained how she watched one ant drag a stick one direction, and…
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Using Your Energy to Heal
In a medical intuition course I’m taking, I’m learning more about the energetic causes of disease. One of the basic principles in the course describes how our bodies can leak energy, which, over time, can lead to health problems. Your Daily Energy Allotment Imagine that each morning, you receive an allotment of energy, and before…
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Coming Out of the Dark
It’s been a long, cold, rainy few months up here in the Pacific Northwest. While the fall and winter times are usually cold and rainy, we’ve had even more rain than normal (I saw one estimate at 125%), and the spring has been slow to get here. As the calendar moved into fall, I got…
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How Healing Physically Can Also Benefit You Emotionally and Spiritually
I recently finished a series of 10 Rolfing sessions that has made me open to a deeper level of understanding of the mind-body connection. Rolfing is the name given to a type of bodywork that was originally created by Ida Rolf in the 1970’s. The practitioner (or “Rolfer”) uses a steady pressure to access the…
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Navigating the Turbulent Waves of Life
Have you ever been tossed and tumbled by a wave, completely at the mercy of the powerful ocean? I remember one such experience vividly. It happened in the waters of Cabo San Lucas, where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez and creates a turbulent setting. I’ve always loved the ocean and was confident…
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Looking for Answers
“The answers are all inside you.” When you’re struck dumb by one of life’s quandaries, or frustrated to the point of wanting to tear your hair out because even after multiple tries, you still can’t figure out how to change your situation, this simple platitude seems like a slap in the face. I’ve often searched…
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Letting Go and Finding the Wisdom of My Soul
A few years ago, my life seemed to fall apart. One by one, I experienced major losses in my work, my social support, my health, my relationship, my hopes for the future… At the bottom of it all, I was quite literally adrift, not even having an official address to call home. It was obvious…
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Gifts Found in the Dark
Yesterday marked Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, the day with the shortest amount of daylight. Over the last few months, as the days have been getting shorter and darker, I have been confronting some darkness of my own, in the form of some challenging health issues and the accompanying thought storm that…
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Permission to Rest
Sometimes, we feel like we need permission to rest. Or maybe that’s just me. I feel like I need permission to rest, take it easy, not push myself so damn hard. This seems to be a lesson I haven’t quite mastered. I’ve written previously about how I injured my hip from over-pushing myself and not…
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The Fear and Thrill of Trying Something New
I’m often encouraging my clients to do things that are a bit scary or out of their comfort zone, in order to help them achieve the goal or feeling they want to create. We all get stuck in ruts, doing things and thinking the same way day after day until something causes us to change.…