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 | 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 | 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 | Dec 9, 2020 | Grief, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized
This holiday season I long for a more loving & livable world where we can all listen deeply and patiently with each other. When we are able to listen to each other from a patient and loving place inside of us, we can feel less separate and broken. We can stop...
by adminwomen | Apr 13, 2020 | Fear, Grief, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized, Working with Grief
We are all feeling the intensity of this Coronavirus storm that has surrounded us. It is ok to be reeling in this storm of uncertainty and fear. I am amazed everyday at the impact of the news, statistics, friends’ fears and just going out and seeing people in...
by adminwomen | Nov 27, 2019 | Grief, Midlife Transitions, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Growth, Women empowering women, Working with Grief
The 2019 Women’s Mindfulness Retreat Nov 14-17 was very powerful!One of the women who attended the 2019 Women’s Mindfulness Retreat this past weekend up at the Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Retreat Center shared at the end of the weekend that what I was teaching in...