by adminwomen | Jan 2, 2022 | Finding A Mooring, Self care, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized
This year, let yourself be soothed and calmed by your “Touch Trees.” Last month I talked about Amanda Gorman, our Poet Laureate, and her Time Magazine interview about how she has found her “Touch Trees” this year of Covid-19 by writing and reading...
by adminwomen | Dec 6, 2021 | Lost at Sea, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Growth
What really matters to you in your life? Amanda Gorman, the Poet Laureate who read her poem at President Biden’s inauguration, told Time Magazine that this year of Covid-19 has brought her closer to finding her “touch tree.” When asked what is a “touch tree” Amanda...
by adminwomen | Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’d like to journey into the collective wisdom of the ancient and modern people of Peru with an incredible group of like-minded women, this is your opportunity. We have all witnessed major change and turmoil over the past two years. As I have been looking for...
by adminwomen | Nov 8, 2021 | Grief, Rebirthing, Self care, Working with Grief
Jon Kabat-Zinn tells the story in the introduction to his powerful book Coming to our Senses- Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness. (2005) of a retreat leader asking him as he entered the retreat, “How is the world treating you?” Then the retreat...
by adminwomen | Oct 8, 2021 | Self-Compassion, Uncategorized, Working with Grief
Why do we start with witnessing? Several years ago I went with the UCC youth group to the Oglala Lakota Reservation in Pine Ridge, S.Dakota for a Mission Work Week. The intentions we went with were totally changed by the time we had been there for 2 days because our...
