Emotional wellness and your inner voice
Today on Self-care Saturday, I’d like to talk about our inner voice. We know there are...
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Category: Wellness
Healing and our basic needs
During college I was fortunate to take several Psychology classes and I very much enjoyed them. Among my favorite subjects were the humanist psychologists. They embodied a lot of what I thought and felt. It was like learning something which made so much sense to me I could barely believe it was “a thing.”
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Plant Spirit Medicine Healing and your Heart
Plant Spirit Medicine as a healing modality has much to do with Traditional Five Element Chinese Medicine. It also has much to do with shamanism. In the Five Element Chinese Medicine view we talk about the seasons and the five elements.
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The wonders and healing power of plants
When we feel lonely, stressed or anxious we need to reach out to plants, to be around them. Gardening is therapeutic and beautifying but beyond that, contact with plants begins to help us heal. Working with plants and being around them helps us remember who we are, what is important in our life and to regain perspective.
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want to improve your health and wellbeing? Dream big!
When we dream big, we are exercising our ability to wish, to connect with the longings in our heart. But we are also doing something else that is very powerful and beautiful: we are listening to the messages from the universe letting us know that we have the ability to make that dream a reality.
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how nature and plants help us heal
Airports can be places devoid of the healing touch of Nature. On a recent trip, this became very...
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finding your purpose
Most of my life I have been kind of obsessed with finding my life purpose. Even though I was doing...
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cultivating your garden
Gardens can be spiritual endeavors and they do contribute to our wellness. Here I share memories...
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say it now; do it now
When someone we care for dies, we do a review of the relationship. Do we feel regret? Why did we not say or do something, why did we not make more time for them?
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Can we ever truly be independent? Is nature?
Was it just me, or do all teenagers want independence? When I was a teenager and even as a young...
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Honoring Our Ancestors
I do like Halloween, even more now because of my young nephew. He loves costumes and movies and his innocent fascination makes us even more aware of the magic of the season. But more than costumes and trick or treaters, for me this time of year is about remembering and paying my respects to my ancestors.
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