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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Peace Perspectives
Explore the wonders of Life, Death, and Everything in Between.
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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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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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Spirit Messages, Gifts, Signs
Self Trust, Relationships, Spiritual Messages. Love. Growth. Healing. Presence. Stillness. Newness. Perspective. All of this and a baby pic
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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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How do I do Stillness?
What is Stillness that we keep talking about? How do I do it, be it? Do I have time for another practice? Can we be still and busy?
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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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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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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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What's in a Name?
Names, around the world, all through time, inside ourselves, and in our societies. A joy or a trouble? What's in a name?
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