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Breathe and Be Here
Breathe Sierra Marin https://open.spotify.com/track/1Ycmq6IcydGeRy8x67d5Eh?si=UMphMaf1R7aV5wBEMijDzA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5VllXqahcf...
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May 4, 20241 min read
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Breathe and Listen
The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness, meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest. The shakiness and uncertainty in the belly....
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Apr 30, 20242 min read
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Breathe
The next time you notice you’ve turned against yourself, tangled in a looping storyline about how you’ve failed, how you’re not enough,...
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Apr 26, 20243 min read
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Rewiring with Breath
Early relational experiences are encoded in our neural circuitry in the first 18 - 24 months of life. Stored as implicit memory, these...
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Apr 22, 20242 min read
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Intimate Relating
In any close relationship (where we take the risk of allowing another to matter) we open ourselves to the two primordial energies of...
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Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Rebirth
By Alex Elle There will be moments when you will bloom fully and then wilt, only to bloom again. If we can learn anything from flowers,...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Waiting to Be Free
BLACKBIRD By the Beatles Interpreted by Evan Rachel Wood https://open.spotify.com/track/2gQhXam6W18YxCNoHQQ24s?si=rV0MHGMOSj-...
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Apr 10, 20241 min read
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Fierce Grace
For many of us, initiation into soul awareness . . . Awakening . . . occurs by way of transition, shattering, loss, and reorganization,...
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Apr 6, 20242 min read
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The Wound and the Healer
Many who are interested in spirituality and healing have been wounded – physically, emotionally, or at a soul level. Sometimes this...
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Apr 2, 20242 min read
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Receiving the Ancestors
Our ancestors continue to live within us, deep in the somatic unconscious, the shards of their unlived lives emerging-into-now by way of...
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Mar 30, 20242 min read
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Holy Water
Tending to grief is an essential task (if not THE essential task) of the alchemist/healer. Providing a sanctuary and safe passage for its...
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Mar 26, 20242 min read
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The Alchemy of Tears
Rumi says . . . “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they...
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Mar 23, 20242 min read
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The Love Dimension
Love Dimension by Beautiful Chorus https://open.spotify.com/track/19KSp74blKCq3Busay80hW?si=9acfa8ab62bd43db https://youtu.be/LkTOxyoKHTk...
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Mar 18, 20241 min read
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Letting Go
By David Whyte At the end things pass away into a hard won perspective. The sepia photographs of childhood like twilight encounters with...
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Mar 14, 20241 min read
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Unraveling Resistance
On a conscious level, of course, we very genuinely want to heal and fully step into a life of deep intimacy, creativity, and aliveness....
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Mar 10, 20242 min read
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