Tag Archive for: rumi
(Video) How Are You Caring for Your Heart?
emotional self-care, Newsletter“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi
Whew, last week was an intense one for me. I was navigating…
If you don’t feel it, you can’t heal it
Newsletter, Self-CareI love Fred Rogers' line from from the wonderful movie based on his life, "Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about (and feel) our feelings, they become less overwhelming,…
You have to feel it, to heal it
Newsletter, Self-CareHow comfortable are you "feeling uncomfortable feelings?"
During my 20's and 30's I experienced my parent's divorce, my brother's suicide, and the death of my mother and father. All of the pain, sadness, betrayal, anger and abandonment these…
Feeling=healing: 4 ways to begin
Life Balance
This is the time of year that many of us who have lost loved ones can feel particularly tender. Both of my parents and my brother died between 1992-2000. The anniversaries of their passing and the holidays--when the absence of their physical…
Welcome Mat
Life Balance
I just finished writing our February life balance newsletter on emotional health and cultivating the ability to not take things personally. (Sign up here if you’d like to receive it on Wednesday.)
And for me, a big piece of emotional health…
Whirling Dervish
Self-CareThis morning I could feel that familiar fall sensation rushing through my body of “too much to do.”
Supporting my husband through his job search, helping my son with school activities and easing into 3rd grade, carving out time to connect…