by adminwomen | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
I want to share with you my Covid journey and how it has taught me so many lessons. I had just come back from a wonderful and powerful trip to South America with my new partner —a trip of a lifetime that we had been planning before Covid and finally got to do it...
by adminwomen | Feb 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Have you traveled away from home during this Covid period? Have you been beyond the borders of the US? I just returned from a trip to Chile and Argentina and I can tell you it was very empowering to get outside of the US Covid fear, anxiety and paranoia, and be in a...
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...
by adminwomen | Aug 28, 2021 | IFS (Internal Family Systems Work), Self-Compassion, Uncategorized, Working with Grief
How do you know when it is time to make a change in your life, to change a behavior, to switch gears and move in a healthier direction, to let go of a relationship, to notice your pain? The first pillar of finding this discomfort in your being, in your behaviors is...
by adminwomen | Aug 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
The last week of July was a rainy one in the Taos Ski Valley and surroundings. It rained every day and sometimes many times each day and the ground became soggy and muddy, slippery. The clouds came and went and the sun often only peeked out a bit in the mornings...
by adminwomen | Jul 5, 2021 | Self-Compassion, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized
“FULL BODY YES” STARTS WITH SELF-AWARENESS— THE ABILITY TO LISTEN INSIDE What helps us to create the shift in our lives from “me, me, me it’s all about me” to “I am a part of something bigger and I have a role in creating what I want that to look like?” These two...