Posts filed under: Resilience

Resilience

Integration and Growing Pains

Life continuously invites us to expand the edges of our current container. Expansive moments such as a profoundly connecting with a new or beloved landscape, an aha moment that lands deeply, wisened......

The Life-Changing Art of Listening

“There is a very important distinction to be made between listening and hearing. Sometimes we listen to things, but we never hear them.” “When you listen with your soul, you come......

The Fire of Yearning

There is fire to yearning; it isn’t weak or fleeting. Yearning can be directed towards another person, an experience, or a way of life. If we dive deeper into the......

Clearing the Static to Make Way for the Sacred

There is a lot of noise–external and internal. With so much noise, it’s hard to hear the whispers of the sacred or what is True. The sacred is subtle and......

Shelter of the Soul

Many of us are in need of shelter – shelter from the brambles of the mind or wounds of the past stored within our bodies. We often reach outside ourselves......

From Sedating to Healing –a gentle pathway forward

When you feel ungrounded, unsettled, or anxious – how do you respond? There are two different paths many of us take – depending on how well we have been tending to......

RECLAIM YOUR NATURAL RHYTHM

To be fully in the world, but not of the world – these words point the way to reclaim authenticity, inner peace, and freedom. Another way to frame this is......

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......