Here you will find a curated list of the most popular posts from the blog organized into useful categories. This is a great place to start if you are new to me and my work. And, a great place to return to whenever you are in need of inspiration, want to know you are not alone, or to learn a new self-care skill.
Please note that the posts below are not in chronological order. I’ve been writing since 2009 and my work has evolved a lot over that time. Check out the post dates if you, like me, enjoy watching things evolve and have curiosity about what happened when. 🙂
Ancestors and Purpose
- Who Are You Inviting In?
- 7 Years After Meeting My Ancestors – A Reflection
- Our Bodies – Where Personal and Multigenerational Trauma Meet
- Healing Multi-Generational Pain and Trauma: You and Your Ancestors
- How Lighting a Red Candle Changed My Life
- Aligning with Purpose in 2014
- The Rock of Enoughness
- Find Peace Within: A Message from the Ancestors
Ritual
- The Power of Yes
- The Aftermath of Ritual: A Reflection
- Celebrating the Return of the Rain and Last Spring’s Tree Ritual
- Learning to Fail Magnificently
Nature Medicine
- The Importance of a Really Good Wallow
- Raccoons, Relaxation, and the Absolute Rightness of Being YOU
- The Medicine of Hops, the Hare
- Using Your Senses to Relax Your Body
- Committed Heart; Committed Action – A Real Life Example
- The Thanksgiving Address – Greeting the Natural World
- The Wonder of Wandering
Overwhelm
- When Overwhelm Strikes – 3 Practices to Restore Peace and Clarity
- The Ancestors-Overwhelm-Trauma Connection
- This Stress We Feel – It Might Not All Be Ours
- What Two Years of Exhaustion Taught Me About Receiving… Everything
Marking the Seasons with Self-Care
- The Conflict Between Winter and Modern Life
- Where is the Chaos? Where is the Ease?
- The Link Between Solstice and Self-Care
- Setting Seasonal Intents
For When You Feel Really Crappy
- Grief that Heals
- You are Worthy; Your Body Loves You
- The Hardest Thing in the World
- On Feeling Alone – Together
- You Are Enough
- Things Aren’t Going to Get Better
- Sadness Speaks
- A Story of Hope
Posts with Useful Exercises
- A Simple Formula for Restoring Faith in Humanity
- How to Stand in Integrity and Speak Up this Holiday Season (and always)
- Crafting a Sustainable Self-Care Practice
- One Small Shift in Perspective that can Change Everything
- How to Shift Out of Fear and Into the Present Moment
- How to Bring a Little Ease into Your Holiday Season
- I Can Feel the Pain; I Know It’s Hurting! Now What???
- The Return of the Free, Online Self-Care Expedition
Listening, Speaking Sensation and Owl Eyes
- The Art of Listening (to Your Sacred Self)
- The Story of the Floating Head
- Sensations: How to Speak the Secret Language of the Body
- The Art of Magical Listening – A DIY Guide!
- The Restorative Power of Deep Listening
- How Being in Right Relationship Leads Effortlessly to Right Action
- Are You Treating Yourself Like an Outcast?
- Confessions of Untoward Urges (Plus Chocolate!)
- When Exhaustion Wars with the Important Thing You Want to Do
- Self-Care Expedition Day 4: Waiting for a Break in the Rain
Personal Stuff
- On Showing Up in All of Our Humanness and Imperfection
- The Agony of Waiting; The Gift of Now
- What Little D is Teaching Me About Struggle, Frustration and Learning New Skills
- An Enchanted Day
- The Thing I Never Thought I’d Do
- One Year
- My Headache Story
- Revealing More; Concealing Less
- A Most Fascinating Question
- Self-Care Expedition Day 2: The Betrayal of My Body
Self-Care
- The Subversive Nature of Self-Care Now
- How to be a Self-Care Scientist
- The Beauty (and Danger) of Growth Spurts
- What is Sacred Self-Care?
- What Does Self-Care Mean to You?
- Learning to Tolerate Comfort
- The Dark Side of Self-Care
- Self-Care Expedition Day 10 (of 10!): wrapping up the expedition
On Resistance
- Why I Resist Things – Can You Relate?
- How to Work with Resistance to Self-Care (or Anything)
- It’s Not About Eating Broccoli – Defining Self-Care without the ‘Should’
- The Danger of Adding Your Self-Care Thing to Your To-Do List
- Self-Care Expedition Day 3: The pressure-resistance piece
- Self-Care Expedition Day 8: encountering still more resistance
Ortho-Bionomy (or Orthobionomy)
- My Ortho-Bionomy Story
- The Phases of Ortho-Bionomy: Bringing You Home
- Four Things I’ve Learned from Richard
- The Art of Relaxed Suffering
- Patterns, Patterns Everywhere: The Ortho-Bionomy – Shiva Nata Connection