Welcoming Change
I’ll admit that fall is not my favorite season. I’ve always had a hard time with the loss of seemingly endless days in nature’s beauty, digging in the dirt, planting seeds, and the manifestation of possibilities that spring and summer bring. To be truthful this year there is full-throttle resistance inside me as the season […]
Teaching Boundaries and Sensitivity Through Equus-heART
The horse as muse and facilitator offers young adults a way to see themselves…
Montreal museum partners with doctors to ‘prescribe’ art
Western medicine is awakening to the value of creativity as a vehicle for healing! Well, 30-years into this all I can say is…”Welcome to the tribe!” Lol!
Costa Rica- Part 4: Returning to Self
To feel a full untrammeled joy is to walk through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self felt itself like a death itself, a disappearance, a giving away, seen in the laughter of friendship, the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming […]
Part 2-What Happens in Costa Rica…stays in Costa Rica!
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller This was the quote on the cover of the binder I chose Day One, at the Eponaquest Adventure Retreat at Leaves and Lizards Arenal Volcano Cabin Retreat, in Monterey, Costa Rica with our hosts Debbie and Steve Legg. This trip had been on my […]
Healing Hearts with Horses – PTSD and Veterans
I found the video in this post today and it brought me to tears. This week I had what can only be described as a Spirit driven encounter with a veteran. In my work with the horses, I have had the great privilege and honor to work with Veterans at two of the therapeutic riding […]
Today’s Awakening: A New Day Rises
Rooster crows pink light weaves through dark green pine boughs, Mist leaves her dew on the frost covered ground soaking my boots and soul, The smell of hay and earth fills the air as steam rushes from wild nostrils, A new morning, a new day rises
The Art of Leadership
Today’s Awakening: I woke this morning with this thought, what is leadership? In light of the responses to the events in Paris and world at large as well as the USA’s current crop of potential Presidential “leaders,” which is quite frankly quite frightening […]
elephant journal Article-Wildfires From The Inside Out
I wish I could figure out how to embed and elephant journal (yes all lower case as advised by the crew at ej) published article, but I’m not that savvy, so I’ll simply give you the elephant link and let you find your way to my first ej article! My original title was “When Lightening Strikes,” […]
Groundlessness. Surfing the big waves.
Today’s Awakening: I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of “Groundlessness,” or as Pema Chodron says, “The idea that the rug has been pulled out from under you.” It’s funny, but that’s how I have been describing my life these last 6 years to friends. “I feel like I get my feet back under […]
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