All posts by: kathleen@katmcintyre.com

The Subtle…. And restoration of your nervous system

SUBTLE: so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. (Oxford Languages). The subtle is often beyond words – though poets, artists, and musicians come the closest......

Getting Grounded – Thriving in a stress-filled world

Unlike the winged ones in the air, or finned ones in the ocean, we have feet – and they are designed to tread softly on the Earth.  Form follows function –......

The Year of Reclamation 

RECLAMATION. In it, I see a phoenix rising from the ashes, strength and resilience, new life after grief and loss, and my younger self as a fledgling forestry graduate student at the......

Reclaim Winter – And Create Your Best Year Yet

Winter was my least favorite season. The idea of slowing down and having my activities limited by the weather was not to my liking. However, years of denying Winter left......

Fire Tending 101:

Practices that stoke your inner fire for calm, clarity, and vitality I love the phrase “to tend to.” It is imbued with the meaning of care and attention. When I think......

Writing Yourself Back In

Have you written yourself out of your own story? Leaving in the parts useful to others but omitting parts that make you feel alive – both the perceived “acceptable” and......

Why you need to apply the First Law of Thermodynamics…

Energy can not be created or destroyed; it just changes form – the law of conservation of energy, also known as the first law of thermodynamics. We have evolved to......

Reclaim your Centerpoint

Today we have arrived at a balance point – the balance of day and night, the transition from summer to fall, movement from the busyness of the growing season to......

Rooting in During Heartbreak

Two weeks until I drop my daughter off at the Air France terminal – India bound – to start her next phase of life and finish her last 2 years......

Donkey Kisses and Good Medicine 

Laughter is good medicine  – not a gesture of pleasantry or out of nervousness, but a genuine laugh from the belly or heart.  Who doesn’t love a belly laugh… but......