Why Affirmations Don't Work: 4 Simple Shifts to try instead
Have you wondered why affirmations don’t stick? Tried many things, felt lousy when it didn't help bring change? Let's learn why,move forward
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Peace Perspectives
Explore the wonders of Life, Death, and Everything in Between.
- 7 min
Moving Forward in Grief: Types and Timelines
Grief is not a linear process to get through. What are the rules? How will we feel happy, less alone, lost, flooded with surprise feelings?
- 8 min
Grief Lifting, Shifting from Grief to Living
The between of Grief and Living, holding and not holding. When we start to shift from deep grief, it can feel off. Where are they? Who am I?
- 5 min
Sacred Rituals and Science for Inner Peace: Creating Spiritual Practices to Ease Worries
Sacred rituals, science intertwine for inner peace. When we create meaningful, simple, repeatable practices, we ease worries, gain clarity.
- 6 min
Comfort Foods and Relationship Patterns: Nourishing Our Souls with Familiarity and Growth
Have you ever found yourself puzzled by recurring patterns in your relationships, despite your efforts to change? Comfort foods can guide us
- 14 min
Grief Questions: Shame, Blame, Guilt Spirals
What to do with grief emotions and challenges that shift, layer like the weather. Spirals of Love, Shame, Blame, Guilt? Birdi shares a story
- 6 min
Communion: Wind, The Birth of a Poem
We expect poetry to bring emotions, senses to life in a way that makes the words in the poem disappear, opening a portal, connecting us.
- 8 min
Changing the way we think can change our life.
"Live as if today was your last day" NO! There are many phrases like this that keep us choosing from fear. Let's do it differently.
- 6 min
Feeling Stuck? Here are 3 Inspirational Quotes and Ideas to Get You Moving Again
We all have times we feel stuck. It can be in our emotions and mindset, or patterns, or even our circumstances. We may wonder why happiness
- 12 min
Are You a Perfectionist
Discover what perfectionism actually is and how perfectionism can affect you High expectations, inner (and outer) critics, and...
- 8 min
The Labyrinth's Gift
So, here we were, dog and me, at this labyrinth, down the street from my home, newly placed, like it was put there just for me
- 10 min
I Am Enough. Really?
Are we ever ENOUGH? Being Enough. We hear this. You are enough. You are not enough. These are conflicting messages we feel bombarded with...
- 8 min
Spirit Messages, Gifts, Signs
Self Trust, Relationships, Spiritual Messages. Love. Growth. Healing. Presence. Stillness. Newness. Perspective. All of this and a baby pic
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How do I do Stillness?
What is Stillness that we keep talking about? How do I do it, be it? Do I have time for another practice? Can we be still and busy?
- 5 min
Inner Thanksgiving and Kaddish
What is Inner Thanksgiving? And no, Kaddish is not a recipe, or maybe it is?. When my cousin comes for Thanksgiving, he will be taking a...
- 10 min
What is Right Mindfulness?
What is Right Mindfulness? How is it a lifestyle practice? What does it look like as an engaged, applied, practical, modern living person?
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Impermanence and no self
A Contemplation about impermanence - how can we understand we are whole and also not a separate self?
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Sacred Contracts and Ceremonies
Recently I created another custom ketubah. This one was a little different because it was for a non-Jewish, non-binary couple. Their...
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Birthday Reflections
Today is my birthday! I often find on special days, like a holiday, or anniversary of whatever kind, a birthday, a celebration, I reflect...
- 6 min
Nuthatch Legacy
Signs, Symbols, Stories we tell ourselves vs. Being the Witness: through the lens of grief and loss Rowan passed away at home on a Monday...
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