Why Affirmations Don't Work: 4 Simple Shifts to try instead
Have you wondered why affirmations don’t stick? Tried many things, felt lousy when it didn't help bring change? Let's learn why,move forward
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Peace Perspectives
Explore the wonders of Life, Death, and Everything in Between.
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Moving Forward in Grief: Types and Timelines
Grief is not a linear process to get through. What are the rules? How will we feel happy, less alone, lost, flooded with surprise feelings?
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Grief Lifting, Shifting from Grief to Living
The between of Grief and Living, holding and not holding. When we start to shift from deep grief, it can feel off. Where are they? Who am I?
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Sacred Rituals and Science for Inner Peace: Creating Spiritual Practices to Ease Worries
Sacred rituals, science intertwine for inner peace. When we create meaningful, simple, repeatable practices, we ease worries, gain clarity.
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Grief Questions: Shame, Blame, Guilt Spirals
What to do with grief emotions and challenges that shift, layer like the weather. Spirals of Love, Shame, Blame, Guilt? Birdi shares a story
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Communion: Wind, The Birth of a Poem
We expect poetry to bring emotions, senses to life in a way that makes the words in the poem disappear, opening a portal, connecting us.
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Changing the way we think can change our life.
"Live as if today was your last day" NO! There are many phrases like this that keep us choosing from fear. Let's do it differently.
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Feeling Stuck? Here are 3 Inspirational Quotes and Ideas to Get You Moving Again
We all have times we feel stuck. It can be in our emotions and mindset, or patterns, or even our circumstances. We may wonder why happiness
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When our Sense of Worth Feels Off
Sometimes, we get surprised by a feeling or reaction. We can ignore it or we can accept an invitation for an inner conversation, a tune up.
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I Am Enough. Really?
Are we ever ENOUGH? Being Enough. We hear this. You are enough. You are not enough. These are conflicting messages we feel bombarded with...
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Revisiting Past Lives, Soul Contracts, and Story Time
Past lives, Soul Contracts, What part of Special am I? How do we sort this? How do I pursue this? What do I do with this? - Blog with Birdi
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Inner Thanksgiving and Kaddish
What is Inner Thanksgiving? And no, Kaddish is not a recipe, or maybe it is?. When my cousin comes for Thanksgiving, he will be taking a...
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What is Right Mindfulness?
What is Right Mindfulness? How is it a lifestyle practice? What does it look like as an engaged, applied, practical, modern living person?
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Impermanence and no self
A Contemplation about impermanence - how can we understand we are whole and also not a separate self?
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Sacred Contracts and Ceremonies
Recently I created another custom ketubah. This one was a little different because it was for a non-Jewish, non-binary couple. Their...
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Birthday Reflections
Today is my birthday! I often find on special days, like a holiday, or anniversary of whatever kind, a birthday, a celebration, I reflect...
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Nuthatch Legacy
Signs, Symbols, Stories we tell ourselves vs. Being the Witness: through the lens of grief and loss Rowan passed away at home on a Monday...
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Birthday Thoughts
Often on birthdays we reflect on the previous year, look ahead to what we may want to accomplish, did or didn’t accomplish, Tick Tock! or...
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Prayer and Meditation: What is the Difference?
Are there rules to praying? Sure, but who makes them? Same for meditation. Were you taught them by your religious upbringing? Or a practice
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We ask Who AM I Now?
"I wish I could go back to the way things were," or "Who I was when," or "How I was and how things were..." Here is a link to my sister...
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