ByCarrie Beleno
The ability to play football is not a gift. In fact, I don’t believe there really is anything that we are “gifted” with. The definition of gifted means “talented, accomplished, proficient, expert.” Society deems someone “gifted” when they are successful at what they set out to do. I’m going to argue that you may not even need…
ByJulia Chi
Just do it… The Nike advice is so very sound… Waking up early to climb up a steep mountain doesn’t always seem appealing, I realised today… ? My waking feeling was that it was all rather hard, the terrain, the thin air, needing to do it early before the blazing sun appeared over the mountain…….
ByCatherine Green
This week I feel a bit strange. My mood has dipped, and while I expected to be happy about my children returning to school after the summer holiday, I actually feel deflated. Yes, I admit, I miss my darlings when they are at school. They might squabble and shout, but they are my girls, and…
ByMichelle Adam
The water came on Valentine’s night, in small droplets as it does here in New Mexico’s desert after long periods of drought. But then, bit by bit, these drops became real rain, unabashed, filling the air with long-awaited moisture that seeped down into the thirsty earth. That night I stepped outside of my boyfriend’s house…
ByJulia Chi
The sound of the cicadas was deafening as we stepped out of the car into a blanket of late afternoon heat… We were half way up the winding mountain road and needed a quick pit stop, we’d been travelling since 7 am… The day had started when we stepped out of our Stables home into…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
The rule of fear I have been living following my intuition the best I could all my life, trying to discover myself and the mysteries of this existence. My curiosity and thirst for the truth pushed me in places and activities that I never planned to venture into consciously, so much so that at a…
ByMichelle Adam
The mist cleared beyond our retreat center at the top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, as we prepared to embark on the teachings of the medicine wheel of the North. We would learn the way of wisdom, of the ancestors, of the apus, the mountains that teach us that which we can’t see inside the…
ByCarrie Beleno
A reader commented that they’d like my take on “destiny and love” and since it comes up with many, many clients, I’ll share my insights! Destiny is a huge topic in the “spiritual community” involving lots of New Age buzzwords: fate, karma, free will. But I have found that simplicity is the theme for this…
ByMichelle Adam
Despite the growing cold of winter’s approach, I walked daily in the woods along the ocean at Odiorne Point, New Hampshire. I had moved closer to the ocean after my summer of healing on an inland farm, yet continued practicing walking meditations. My walks were inspired by lessons I had learned during my shamanic classes, especially…
ByJulia Chi
Today has been a lovely day, a special day… A day filled with joy and love and connection. All days have this within their essence… Each day we live has the potential to be a special day, a day filled with love, connection and joy. The key is that we stay at all times connected…
ByMichelle Adam
Three months had come and gone on the New England farm during the summer of 2000. The long days and nights of healing, walking, meditating, gardening, dreaming, and connecting with God had come to an end as had Monday poetry gatherings, swimming pool extravaganzas, and shared time and feasts with Jean’s family and friends on the…
ByJulia Chi
Winchmore Hill became a party street today, a big wheel right in the centre, and a stage on the green, Morris dancers in the street…Art… Music, food, clothes jewellery, gin! Everything in abundance and people crowded, packed together, enjoying the summer’s warmth… Perfect for the occasion. I could hear the merriment outside the peace of…