I’m just going to say it: This time is a Call to Action. A Wake Up Call. No one is immune to that! How we all “do the wake up,” is different. If you are a highly sensitive parent who likely also has sensitive kids, I am excited for you! Of course you feel the [...]
Summer gives us an opportunity to “step out of our daily lives.” The change of pace can be both welcomed and challenging for kids sensitive to their environments. One thing that remains a constant “parenting tool” is the language we use to communicate with our kids. Have you ever noticed if you are too firm [...]
I often think of February as a month of the heart for many reasons. Valentine's Day is perhaps the most obvious but the month has been deemed "heart month" by a variety of organizations. In addition, with winter darkness, a theme of more depression or blues, winter tugs at our heart strings to live from [...]
Here is a blog post that I wrote for Motherhouse of the Goddess: We often speak of clearing and cleansing with seasonal changes. However, there is always an opportunity to create anew. An opening exists to receive something new is always at our reach, like a canopy of trees enveloping you as you rest on [...]
As a culture, it seems we have a voracious appetite for purchasing and that many of our holidays and seasonal celebrations have been relegated to marketing to the “don’t haves or wish we could have” soft spots within our human states. Whether it is to our appetites or desire for sugar and other addictive foods [...]
Photo: michale/Flickr. “The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness.'” ― Marion Woodman People may think that humans are so wired by evolution to eat sugar whenever they can get it that there's not much hope to avoid unhealthy sweets in today's food economy, when they're available everywhere and [...]
Eating a rainbow of colors not only makes eating fun and colorful, but also adds a variety of important vitamins, minerals and nutrients. We benefit from increasing our fruit and vegetable intake to help offset our depleted soil, higher levels of pollution, pesticides, herbicides, and other environmental toxins. As a concept, this is fun to [...]
