Tending Our Dreams

This weekend we are in Brooklyn, NY for a birthday celebration for my younger daughter with the family and friends who live here. We visit once a season or so, enjoying what residents love about living here, including awesome and inexpensive...

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Choosing to be Queen

As women, our roles often involve supporting and accomplishing things for others can leave us with an unease about whether our own life is being supported and accomplished as well.  Symptoms that we are not doing so well in honoring our own life...

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Our Sensory Invitation

If you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, fearful, or insecure these days, you are in very good company!  Most of the people I know-both clients and peers-are experiencing sensations that reflect a measure of the turmoil of transition that is going...

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A Woman First

At my family reunion last weekend, one of my "outlaws"-as the spouses of my siblings have come to call themselves-asked me to explain to him the whole "divine feminine thing" he kept hearing about from the women he worked with in his job as a...

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The Strength of Rituals

This week, my 6 siblings and I, living literally coast to coast, are gathering in the middle to celebrate our parent's 56 years of marriage as well as my father's life of 80% of a century, as my youngest daughter loves to tell him.  Preparations...

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Leaning into Life

A plan to visit a friend in Vermont for the 4th of July weekend fell through and my daughter and I were faced with recreating plans.  My daughter of 12 years wanted to go to real fireworks and I wanted to go to the ocean, not having been for months...

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The Importance of Ceremony

A common theme in conversations these days is the rapid pace of changes, both personal and wordly, some chosen and some unwanted and many challenging in some way to deal with.  When asked for my wisdom on how to deal with the challenges of change,...

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Being a Woman Matters

We are living within amazing and powerful transformations of the foundations of how life on our planet is ordered with all that calls Earth home affected, essentially requested to transform. We have valued the intellect at the cost of the...

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