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Writing Memoir as a Healing Process

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...

Tired of being stuck, fearful? Use Writing Tools to Heal from Grief and Loss

by adminwomen | Jan 2, 2023 | Fear, Finding A Mooring, Self care, Self-Compassion, Working with Grief

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...

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

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...

Learn the Embodiment Tools for Deep Diving: Be like a Tree!

by adminwomen | Jun 3, 2022 | Resilience, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Growth, Working with Grief

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...

Courageous women stepped deeper into Healing and Grief – Fall Retreat 2021

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...

Learn how to Expand your Compassion Container through Bare Witnessing

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...
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