Reflections

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This is 39.

Last year was the first time I remember being fully intentional about my birthday, and it set the tone for the year ahead in such a beautiful way.

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On Sale Now: The Sacred Nature Retreat

If you’re feeling burnt out, wrung out, turned inside out, this is for you.

Come as you are, however you are.

Leave reconnected, restored, and refreshed, with a deeper relationship with the earth, your essential self, and an incredible community.

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Back to Nature, Back to Self

Here’s what I know: nature is the answer.

If we’re feeling lost or disconnected or sad, nature is the answer.

If we want to make a good day better or heighten our joy, nature is the answer.

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Why do we do this work, anyway?

Why do we spend time learning how to regulate our nervous system, challenge painful thoughts, and expand our capacity for what’s possible? 

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Insomnia, Imbolc, and Intentions

I used to be tormented by waking up in the middle of the night.

I still wake up between 2am and 4am most nights, but it no longer torments me.

The situation didn’t change. The story I told myself did.

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Loving Kindness Meditation

May I be happy. May I be free. May I find peace.

May you be happy. May you be free. May you find peace.

May all beings be happy. May all beings be free. May all beings find peace.

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What Are You Willing to Be Bad At?

This year feels ripe for me to dig in and tackle some things that I’ve always wanted to be good at, but… am not. Yet.

Which reminded me of the wonderful question:

What are you willing to be bad at long enough to get good at it?

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The Power of Ritual

Rituals can look any number of ways, but they all mark a change, an arrival or departure or some combination of the two.

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