by adminwomen | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
HOW DO WE NAVIGATE AND EMBODY THE YIN & YANG OF SELF-COMPASSION? This toolbox of self-compassion is a vast continuum from gentle, loving and open receptivity to the fierce discernment that comes from being in your absolute Truth, or standing firm for your...
by adminwomen | Feb 6, 2023 | Self-Compassion, Uncategorized
MINDFULNESS BREATHING PRACTICES HELP US FEEL OUR WHOLENESS What we feel when we breathe is different than what we think about ourselves. Breathing gets us in touch with our wholeness; our thoughts and our mind often is in charge of finding our “brokenness”. What’s...
by adminwomen | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized, Working with Grief
Writing a memoir is a very unique writing experience. Often as I began writing about the six major transitional events that happened in my midlife years starting with the birth of my son at 39 in which I developed severe post-partum depression, I had no idea where I...
by adminwomen | Jan 2, 2023 | Fear, Finding A Mooring, Self care, Self-Compassion, Working with Grief
Okay. I know it’s scary to think about writing down in words what you are feeling; especially when what you are feeling is big, intense and complex! But, what if I told you that journaling in some form or another is the best way to unravel your feelings and calm you...
by adminwomen | Nov 14, 2022 | Midlife Transitions, Mindfulness, Rebirthing, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized, Working with Grief
This October twelve women courageously walked deeper into their pain, grief and despair at this fall’s retreat entitled “Healing Yourself, Healing the World: A Self-Compassionate Path through Grief.” Like “Kali” the Dark Goddess in the Hindu pantheon, we found that...
by adminwomen | Sep 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY AND GRIEF’S MYSTERIES In l990, Maureen Murdock published a book called The Heroine’ s Journey. A woman’s quest for wholeness in our contemporary world, she says, is about defining woman’s experience of becoming and not how it has...
by adminwomen | Jul 25, 2022 | Deep Diving -Stage 3, Grief, Self-Compassion
Why are Self-Compassion and Self-Love essential to our Deep Diving through Grief? I am writing this post because of my personal experience with my own grief over the past year and how writing my memoir triggered so much grief that I had thought I had processed, and I...
by adminwomen | Jun 3, 2022 | Resilience, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Growth, Working with Grief
Growing up a female in a masculine powered world of the 60’s, I can tell you it has taken me a long while to find the ways of being alive and present in my life that really work for me. At 69, I can say it has taken experimentation with many mind/body tools to really...
by adminwomen | May 11, 2022 | Deep Diving -Stage 3, Grief, IFS (Internal Family Systems Work), Rebirthing, Spiritual Growth
In Stage 3 of the Midlife Voyage, Deep Diving, we learn about how to use our embodiment practices to take us deeper into our pain, suffering, and our darkness deep down in our bodies. We hold it all in our bodies because we have exiled it there during our childhood....
by adminwomen | Apr 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
What is Embodiment? Why do we want to be more embodied? It is learning to listen to our bodies and what they can show us about our human emotions, our feelings, our sensations that is different from what our minds are telling us we are about. It is not neat and...
