Beauties, Change is so uncomfortable. Not changing, is so uncomfortable. Some of you know, I have been moving through a big challenge for several months involving some voice loss and issues with my neck. It's been a big ... Read More
Don’t Shoot The Messenger- True Healing
Healing Can't Happen Without This Resolutions and the wish to do better, be better, and create the life we want to live in~yes. But it's probably not going to be enough. And I believe that until you also do this, you won't ... Read More
Nourishing Sight
I have come to see and believe that each of us has a specific "medicine"- that mix of qualities and gifts that come from our specific experiences, history, genetics, perspective. All of it coming together in a way that allows ... Read More
Change How You Feel With Rituals
In the moment I choose to engage ritual, I can feel something happen. The air around me changes. At the moment I light the candle, or invoke the blessing, or run the grounding cords deep into the energy of Mother Earth.. I ... Read More
Trusting The Big Clean-Ups
I have a dear friend, the kind with whom I talk about the really big stuff. We have known each other since we were 18 and so have been through countless life events together. So many moments of beauty and joy and wonder. And ... Read More
Ending emotional eating…are you eating stress?
There is so much good information around how our minds and bodies talk to each other. (I love Dr. Lissa Rankin's new book, Mind Over Medicine). Our body hears everything we say... feels the impact of every thought we have. ... Read More
Creating Tiny Moments of Beauty (photos!)
Creating beauty and tiny altars in your home can nourish you in ways that soothe you and leave you less vulnerable to using food. I love attending to my surroundings. I love the placing and considering of objects.. the adding ... Read More
What’s harder- Changing a belief or a behavior?
Something I know about making personal changes...It's so much easier to change our way of thinking, believing, acting, reacting and such when we are not in the thick of it. When something is triggering the hell out of us, ... Read More
Playing Possum and Making Ourselves “Wrong”
This is the second part of a two-part essay on trusting your guidance, and why we so often don't. Why trusting our intuitive knowing can make us uncomfortable and how that may cost us. You can read part 1 here. Why do we ... Read More
You Know What You Know- Intuition as Survival
Lately I have been thinking about our intuitive knowing, not as a mystical "gift" or special talent, as some people may think of it, but simply as a survival instinct. Every animal species has intuition, although with animals ... Read More