Empaths, Honor Yourself First This Holiday Season.
With the holidays comes a plethora of additional emotions. For example, people are putting on a happy face when deep down they are miserable.
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Wild & Wise: Sacred Feminine Meditations. {book review}
Through a series of guided meditations, Wise & Wild takes the reader on a journey into and through the cultural influences that have shaped, and often misshaped, our relationships with ourselves as women.
On the Necessity of Being ‘Selfish’.
Tragically, some of us don't know how to love ourselves enough -- to be selfish enough -- even to survive properly, let alone realize our dreams.
Grieving Under an Invisibility Cloak.
It seems to me that the cloak of invisibility worn by those invisibly grieving is no less than a superhero’s cape. While tossing and turning on mourning’s high seas, it can take Herculean strength to simply get out of bed some days. It can take immense strength to acknowledge that one must amp ...
How Meditation Saved Me in the Fight Against My Body.
Much like any other remedy or proposed fix out there, I became a sucker for the benefits that the practice of meditation claimed to produce, and thought, "Sure, why not?” While I was initially only interested in meditation for superficial reasons, I quickly became fascinated with its ...
Practicing the Art of Radical Self-Care: Seven Tenets of a Balanced Life.
Nature is the quintessential balanced system, an ancient symbiosis that will outlast us all.
Hungry Ghosts and Benefactors: On Moving Through the Field of Motion Sickness.
We are told not to burn ourselves out, to avoid motion sickness, to be reasonable.
Early Consent and the Lifelong Pursuit of Pleasure as Self-Care.
I did not have low self-esteem for engaging in sexual activity. I had nerve endings. Thousands of nerve endings that enjoy and respond to pleasure just like any other person.
3 Ways to Awaken Your Astral Athlete.
Desperate to merge my need to sweat with my new identity, I started an experiment. I designed every training session with the Moon as my muse. I needed working out to have a purpose, even one beyond self-care. I became willing to accept that my body didn’t show up the same, day after day, like ...
Invoking the Red Tent: A Vow to My Wounded Sex.
I feel a snake, uncoiling; an energy, unfolding. I see an earthen star forming the five points -- the rooted stakes -- of my hearth’s tent. I see it rise, solid and strong. Stoic, in a way, as it holds within its walls all of the mysteries, the atrocities, the stories and the epiphanies leading ...