I’ve been attending a Wisdom Circle for the past nine months. The group meets monthly and along with great speakers we check-in and share on topics related to weaving spirituality throughout our lives. I invited a friend of mine to join us for this month’s gathering figuring she’d enjoy not only the experience, but meeting the [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Posted in In the Know, Personal Conviction, tagged Community, healing, health, illness, inclusion, self-empowerment, wellness on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How Safe Is Your Home?
Posted in In the Know, Self-Nurture, tagged healing, health, illness, stress response, wellness on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When we think of safety in the home we usually refer to things like radon or fire hazard. Today a study was revealed that young girls who live in homes where there is ongoing stress go through puberty at an earlier age. The study reported girls as young as seven years old entering puberty. The [...]
Info or Intuition
Posted in In the Know, Self-Nurture, tagged health, illness, religion, spirituality, wellness on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You make decisions every day but have you ever stopped to consider how you make your decisions? Everyone has a process they go through when making decisions and it doesn’t change when you have a life-altering diagnosis. If anything your process becomes more pronounced because you rely on it greater than in the past. There are [...]
Interference
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, Self-Nurture, tagged hospitals and healing, Mehmet Oz, mind body connection on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When we discuss healing we talk a lot about focus. How do you keep focused on the task at hand, working toward a mind, body, spirit alignment? The problem that many have shared with me through the years is that they get distracted. Their attention is lured away from what’s most important and they get [...]
Right Back At Ya!
Posted in art and healing on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The “eyes” have it! I was listening to an interview on Colorado Public Radio today featuring Sally Lincoln, a Colorado artist. Sally goes to the VA nursing home and creates portraits of the residents. She thought she’d go in and paint a few portraits and then leave but the impact the portrait experience was having [...]
Let It All Hang Out!
Posted in art and healing, Having a Voice on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder if people know how wise they really are. I attend lectures, or have conversations with friends over coffee and out of the blue this profound statement becomes the center of my attention. I an struck with the impact a simple statement can have, especially when it’s something said in jest. Last night I [...]
The Great Autumnal Shift
Posted in Self-Nurture on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We just moved the clocks back and hour and my dogs wonder why their internal clock is not being honored. The autumn, fall back, is the difficult one because I can’t explain why this happens or the fact that they are going to need to be flexible. Like the rest of you I understand the [...]
