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Finding “My Way” into Elder hood: The Retirement Transition

by adminwomen | Dec 28, 2025 | Crone, Elder, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Voyage, Wisewoman Transition

You don’t have to know The Way, The Way knows The Way You don’t have to Plan The way Trust the Way Feel your Way The Way knows The Way knows  The Way knows The Way.    —Song by Lindsay Scott This song resonates with my year of riding the waves of life as an elder. ...

Bringing in Joy to Balance your Grief: How Nature Practice works!

by adminwomen | May 16, 2025 | Embodiment, Mindfulness, Nature practices, Self-Compassion

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night in fear, in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the...

How do we navigate our life transitions as Wisewomen, Crones and Sages?

by adminwomen | Mar 24, 2025 | Crone, Elder, Fierce Compassion, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Voyage, Wisewoman Transition

If you are in your sixties, you are already a crone, sage, elder!!  The historical goddess literature puts those of us in our sixth or seventh decade right into the Crone stage, but did you really know what historically the crone is all about?  The Crone Goddess is...

Storytelling can give comfort, when nothing else can go in –Compassionate Caregiving

by adminwomen | Nov 12, 2024 | Compassion, Grief, Self-Compassion, Writing Tools

I just returned from Florida from visiting my closest sister whose life just changed dramatically.  Wheww! It’s really difficult when it comes close to home. You have been there too.  When it is your own family experiencing life-changing accidents that impact...

Ready to learn how to Wrap Yourself in a Blanket of Love?

by adminwomen | Feb 6, 2023 | Phase II — Finding A Mooring, Self-Compassion

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...

Do you know how to create a Healing Container for your Grief and Pain?

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...
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  • Phase I — Lost at Sea
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Recent Posts

  • How do we find an Open Heart in the midst of Deep Suffering and Despair?
  • The Crone’s Truth Mandala
  • Finding the Yin side of Life: Falling over the threshold to darkness, stillness, non-doing, and possibility!
  • Finding “My Way” into Elder hood: The Retirement Transition
  • What does “Living Life Fully” mean and why is it so important now?

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