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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Comfort Foods and Relationship Patterns: Nourishing Our Souls with Familiarity and Growth
Have you ever found yourself puzzled by recurring patterns in your relationships, despite your efforts to change? Comfort foods can guide us
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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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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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Are You a Perfectionist
Discover what perfectionism actually is and how perfectionism can affect you High expectations, inner (and outer) critics, and...
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The Labyrinth's Gift
So, here we were, dog and me, at this labyrinth, down the street from my home, newly placed, like it was put there just for me
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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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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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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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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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Self Talk. Have the Real Conversation.
Self-talk. We all do it. It’s part of the mysterious design. But what is it? Why is it powerful? What can we know about it and do with it?
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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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