by adminwomen | Jan 2, 2023 | Phase II — Finding A Mooring, Writing Tools
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 | Phase II — Finding A Mooring, Self-Compassion
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 | Embodiment, Fierce Compassion, Grief, Internal Family Systems Work (IFS), Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY IS OUR GRIEF JOURNEY 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 been...
by adminwomen | Jul 25, 2022 | Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
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 | Embodiment, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
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 | Internal Family Systems Work (IFS), Phase I — Lost at Sea, Spiritual Voyage
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 | Embodiment, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
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...
by adminwomen | Mar 4, 2022 | Phase I — Lost at Sea
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 | Fierce Compassion
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 | Phase II — Finding A Mooring
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...
