Today is Earth Day, April 22nd. I am reminded of how our relationship with Mother Earth may echo our first relationship with mother in the womb and the time of birth. Today, in 2023, we are as a species in dire need for more conscious connection with our planet. I ask myself, as perhaps you […]
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Welcome: A Pre- and Perinatal Principle for Life
Every baby needs and wants to be welcomed. This need continues throughout our lives, particularly if it hasn’t been well met in the beginning. To really understand this, we need to consider when “the beginning” is. Most babies are welcomed once they are born unless they are abandoned or given up for adoption or fostering, […]
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What Babies Can Teach us about Love and Resilience
You may have heard that babies are our teachers. They arrive still fresh with the aura of that mysterious source from which our beings emerge into a new life and return to at death. In the presence of that energy, we remember. We have the potential to learn. How can that translate into our lives? […]
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War, Trauma and the Potential for Healing
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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