Self-Care For The Soul

Is constant exposure to distressing news keeping you in fight, flight, or freeze mode? It's hard not to get overwhelmed. We need to take regular breaks to intentionally reset our nervous systems and allow our bodies space to regulate and heal. Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for some soothing breathwork and a guided body scan - to bring healing love, peace, and nourishment to all pa...

Today, we gather with our deepest prayers and intentions for peace for our planet. We call on the Divine Powers of Peace and Wisdom to surround our planet and infuse into all her inhabitants, to penetrate the hearts of our leaders, to steer the actions of all people, including each of us. Please join us, bring your heart, mind, soul, and the Divine Powers that manifest through you.  You're in...

This week we wrap up our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Earth: The Grounding Wisdom. We will use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to connect with the Sacred Mother Earth that provides us with stability and grounding. We tap into the sustenance and feel the deep wisdom of the innate knowledge our earthly bodies carry. We are not on the Earth, we ar...

Experience yourself as a being of water, an open cup floating in an ocean of living consciousness, one with all life. Allow the water to flow through you, cleansing and purifying your vessel, restoring and rejuvenating you, and healing you with the gentle rain of Mercy. In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we dive into the Element of Water: The Cleansing Rain of Mercy. We use the Sacred...

Feel yourself as an instrument in Earth's symphony that is playing now. Tap into the winds that create harmonic melodies, that bring everything upon the planet to play beautiful love songs that bring us all to fall madly in love with Life itself. This week our deep dive through the Elements continues with the element of Air: The Breath of Life. We use the Sacred Sounds and Divine Attributes of the...

This week we continue our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Fire: The Flame of Purification. This is where you find the sweetness when you call on your Source in times of constriction.  We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to invoke the purifying sounds and frequencies so that the imprints on your psyche that are incongruent with who you are can b...

This week we embark on a 5-week deep dive through the Elements. Contrary to my nature – we are not going to cover all of the elements in one session. We’ll dive into one each week.  We begin this week with Part 1 - Ether: The Light of Truth. We tap into the inner light that is your core consciousness - the Higher Light within you. We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes to feel the r...

This is a perfect Mother’s Day message – it’s about nurturing the nurturer. Receiving the Nurturing from the infinite, eternal, ever-present Source.   You're probably in the habit of nurturing others. It's what we do. But when times get tough, we need our own nurturing. We need to be nurtured. We need space to be present, to allow it in, and to feel it.   Just like unconditional lov...

As women, we are somatic creatures. We are meant to be connected with our bodies and with the earth. When we are not present in our bodies and connected to our senses, our programmed conditioned not-self behaviors take over. In other words, when we are not in our vehicles, in the driver's seat with hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road, we cannot navigate the twists and turns of our pat...

There is a lot happening right now for which anger is a natural response. Anger is a motivator; it can inspire us to take much-needed action. However, anger is not always the best place to act from.   If you are uncomfortable with anger, you might find yourself stifling the emotion and abandoning the needed action altogether. You might feel that it's safer to do nothing than risk the danger t...

As a young mathematician, I was told over and over again that women were not good at math. Yet my test scores proved otherwise. In my high-tech career, my achievements were diminished and uncompensated as I was told repeatedly that "women do not make it here." And yet I held my own and then some.   Where do our gender expectations come from? More importantly, are they accurate for you? At som...

Do you eat when you are not hungry? Could you be eating to cover shame? The nature of shame is to hide - it doesn't want to be seen. When we are still and things get quiet, that old hidden shame from the past starts to surface and we feel agitated. It could be from our past, it could be ancestral, or it could be that innate programming that so many of us are born with - listen for more about the i...

When something comes up 3 times in the same week, I take that as a sign to address it with the group. The issue is feeling undervalued at work and working so hard to prove yourself that you are near collapse, and you are still overlooked.   You are not getting support you need because you feel like asking for help would be admitting you are not capable, even though you are often doing the wor...

There is a divine force of Power itself that runs through all of existence and manifests in many ways. And there is a place where that Divine Power penetrates you to live, express, and manifest through you. This Power meets and merges with your ego nature to become your inner power. This is where you have choice and responsibility for how you engage with Divine Power and use it hopefully for the g...

In this Meditation, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on a Holy Fire Reiki Journey to explore and integrate the healing power of Air. Air is the quality associated with the direction East, the rising sun, and the Spring Equinox. The Spring Equinox is the beginning of the agricultural year and the time when the Earth awakens. It is an excellent time for us to initiate and celebrate new begin...

Fears, frustrations, anger, stress - they can build up inside us and act like the steam inside a pressure cooker. We need to regularly decompress - to let the steam out. These days it needs to be a daily self-care practice. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I share 7 practices that you can use, and we’ll do four of them together.  You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation &...

Difficult times present us with opportunities to discover who we are. We have a chance to push through our limitations and discover our strengths and values, but we have to dig deep. We have to find courage and hold tight to our convictions. We all have it within us, often more than we know.   In today's Meditation and Healing Circle, we support each other to reach beyond our inner depths to...

I have a book that is set to launch in the next month, pre-launch opens this week. It is called Fear, Food, and Feminine Power. I started writing it 8 years ago which feels like a long time, but it turns out the timing is perfect.   Women have long held a generalized vibration of fear, feeling unsafe in their bodies. Many of us use food as a crutch to self-soothe, and we wrestle with a body t...

Have you ever been a victim of an attack or abuse and then been blamed for your own attack? Or unjustly scrutinized? Victim blaming is something many of us, especially women, have been conditioned to hold. Now we are seeing this in the firing of government employees given a justification of performance or lack when this is not the reason for their termination. We're seeing it in the way DEI h...

With all of the turmoil we are in right now, it’s important to remember what we do have, what we can do, and to focus on elevating our frequencies so we can stay aligned with our truth. We have been talking for a while now about ascension into a world of peace. Meanwhile, we’re in the storm. So how can we weather the storm while staying focused on evolution and elevation? This is the focus of this...

How much of your persona and habitual behaviors are influenced by cultural conditioning? How much of this conditioning is counter to your true essence?  Society imprints so many expectations on us – what we believe, how we speak, how we dress and wear our hair, who we hang out with, what we eat, and the social and political ideologies we identify with. The influences can be so subtle that we...

This meditation targets the underlying generalized sense of fear. It focuses on releasing unexplained fear so we can be more present with current life events and make clearer judgments and decisions. There is a lot of fear in the air waves right now, and much of it can be explained and justified. However, there is an underlying fear that resides in the nervous system that gets amped up when the pr...

Have you been feeling a bit overwhelmed or anxious, feeling uncertain, finding it difficult to ground or connect with your true self? You are not alone. Here are some tools for your toolkit! In this Meditation & Healing Circle, my dear friend and colleague Camela Widad leads us through breathwork to regulate the nervous system and help us connect with our hearts, our natural rhythms, and our t...

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk wrote the brilliant book The Body Keeps the Score . Your body holds the story of your life journey and gives you keys to healing. But your body is not limited to the effects of your past. It is still evolving with you as you write the next pages and chapters of your life. If you have ever looked in a mirror and not like what you've seen, or if you disconnect from your body...

Our culture pushes us to identify with labels that tell us how we’re supposed to believe, look, and act: What does it mean to be a woman? A man? Nonbinary? A teenager? An adult? A parent? A liberal? A conservative? Independent? A professional [fill in the blank]?   What’s your stereotype? What pictures do you fit in?   The messages are full of double standards that are impossible to meet...