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 | 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 | 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...
