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I hope the posts and videos on this blog stimulate you to think differently about your health. I'm sharing from the perspective of my training as a homeopath and my experience practicing meditation and somatic healing for over twenty years.
There are hundreds of posts, some from as far back as 2012. I invite you to search for whatever interests you and contact me if you have questions about anything I've written.
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What Keeps Us Away From Dealing With Ourselves?
Watch this video we're talking about avoiding ourselves because we don't like what's happening with us.
Accepting yourself as you are is essential to your healing, and it’s something that only you can do for you.
No practitioner can accept you for you. I can guide and teach you to access and cultivate self-compassion and self-acceptance through the lens of what you're dealing with, but I can’t give those things to you.
When our inner-judge obscures, self-compassion guides us to what we need to do next.
When I look back on the times I was really struggling, one of the things that aggravated me was my propensity to judge myself about how sick I was, though I didn’t see it that way at the time.
Striking parallels between healing racism and our own health
Similar principles apply to healing racism and disease. In both cases, we need to shine a light on the wound so we can see it in the light of day.
My personal reflections on racism reveal a surprising and unpleasant truth
I don’t think I’m racist, I believe everyone should be treated equally, but I’ve come to see that I’m not yet an anti-racist.
Gratitude isn’t just a new age precept
I used to underestimate gratitude, equating my perception of its usefulness to self-help precepts like positive thinking.
Love Note to My Body
This poem inspires and humbles me. It reminds me how to be in right relationship with my body.
Self-compassion is essential for healing
When I look back on the times I was really struggling, one of the things that aggravated me was my propensity to judge myself about how sick I was, though I didn’t see it that way at the time.
The pace of your healing is unique to you
Comparing yourself to your perception of how another person is doing is unhealthy in all aspects of life but it’s particularly destructive in healing.
I may be a hermit after all
It's possible that I may just be a hermit, like my kids have called me for years. I don't like the societal circumstances that are causing me to stay home but that actual staying home part isn't that hard for me.
Feeling afraid? So many of us are. Here’s one technique to shift your experience.
What if you look at fear as nothing more than an energy? It’s a damaging energy to dwell in for too long because it creates contraction and inhibits our functioning at every level.
There’s no separation between the body and the mind
Beyond my healing education, life has shown me that the there's no separation between the body and mind.
Your reaction to your symptoms affects suffering
How do you react to a pain in your body or mind? Do you become scared, angry, sad or inquisitive?
Use acceptance and trust to raise your vibration
The fear being spread by the pandemic is as toxic to us as the virus itself. You might argue that there are good reasons to be afraid.
How do we cope when what we’re doing isn’t working?
What do you do when you realize that the way you're living is not working for your body or mind and that you're quite unhappy with the status quo?