All posts by: kathleen@katmcintyre.com

Our Ancestors — the light and the dark

Every year, about three weeks before Halloween, or Samhain in the Celtic tradition, I create and alter to my ancestors with pictures as far back as I could find. Seeing......

A Different Approach to Celebrating the Summer Solstice

Icarus and his father, inventor Daedalus, made a great escape from imprisonment through crafted wings. However, freedom is met with tragedy as Icarus does not heed his father’s warning not......

Slow Your Roll – Creation Can’t Be Rushed

The moment it starts to warm, it feels like we go from the slower flow of winter to full throttle–which can be jarring on all levels. It is easy to......

The Medicine of Movement

the gift of inner freedom I was loaded on a stretcher, carried down the stairs, and rolled out to the ambulance. The pain was close to childbirth, and the nurse......

The Sap is Rising: The Great Awakening

There’s a shift happening; can you feel it? The sap is rising. Rising—this word holds so much potential. There is hope in rising—change is often afoot when there is a......

Lessons from a Chipmunk

5 Strategies for Softening and Deep Restoration When an eastern chipmunk drops into hibernation, their heart rate drops from an average of 350 beats per minute to 15 little thumps,......

Make No Sudden Moves

Rest, and make no sudden moves. No proclamations, no commitments. Except for a commitment to rest, hibernate, go within, or look into the shadows. And be. There is something exciting......

The Most Important Returns You Can Make

Many of us are being called to make returns. These returns do not come with a receipt, as they have been handed down generation after generation—cultural conditioning, passed down trauma,......

Adaptogens for your Whole Self – medicine for dysregulation

ADAPTOGENS, a gift from Mother Nature, particularly when stressors we experience exceed our capacity to adapt. How do we know we have exceeded our adaptive threshold? We might experience feelings......

The Work of Rewilding

REWILDING — for me, the meaning of this powerful word is woven with the threads of hope, spaciousness, and freedom. John Davis, director of Rewilding Earth, states, “Rewilding, in essence,......