These days I feel even more grateful than usual for my supportive practices of Continuum (mindful movement), meditation, and the ability to remind myself of my current age and resources (to help me not feel like a little one being easily overwhelmed). I look around my home and feel grateful to have one, as well […]
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Remembering Love
When you ask yourself, “Who am I?,” do you acknowledge the love that you are? As little ones, even before birth, we are carriers of love, emissaries with a mysterious message humans are uniquely designed to communicate. We can be reminded by other mammals, also possessing a social engagement nervous system, and we as humans […]
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New Year and the Metaphor of Birth
It’s not unusual to associate the new year with a newborn baby. We instinctively know that this new beginning is like a new birth. It offers potential. There is a whole year, like a whole lifetime, of the unknown awaiting us. What is less often acknowledged is that every new beginning is like a birth […]
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Depression, Low Tide, and Birth
You might read the title of this blog and wonder what do depression, low tide and birth have in common? Feeling depressed can feel like running on empty. On my walk today, seeing our local tidal river at low tide, it occurred to me that it was also empty. Nothing was flowing. The boats couldn’t […]
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Birth, Ghosts, and Messages from Mother Earth
As I write this, a major international meeting to address climate change is beginning. We all know that too many forests are burning. Too many floods are destroying too many homes and lives. Mother Earth is screaming. She needs our attention now! After years of motherly encouragement has been largely ignored, the question looms as […]
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