Surrounded in Surrender
No word has been as illuminating for me as much as this year’s word of the year, Surrender. I had no idea how much of a gift it would be when i chose it. I harboured mixed feelings (and some negative connotation to it going in) that i knew it would be a revealing word. I was very hesitant to embark on this year-long lesson and am so grateful for it. Alongside this year-long study…
My Embowered Birth: A Polyvagal-Informed Birth Story
After giving birth to my first child, i knew when it came time to birth my second, i wanted it to look different. It took a lot of inner work…
Stepping Out of the Fire: A Year of Living in a Pandemic
This has been the longest year. The official anniversary of the global pandemic was this week. Where i live, while we heard of Covid19 before March, my own life changed…
How do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways: Six Principles of Self-Love
This month, I have been diving into what ‘self-love’ means. Each year in February, i do a daily practice to honour what needs tending. It is a practice of self-love,…
Rise into a New Year
It’s 12 days into 2021. Today is the first New Moon of 2021 so a perfect time to look at the year ahead, with a strong back and soft heart.…
A Year in Review: My Mind Body Soul Rhythms
I am writing this from my bed on my birthday. Another turn around the sun. I am officially in my mid-forties now, as well as mid-life. I am in the…
The Journey to Me: Shadow Work and the Many Moons of the Self
I recently completed a course called Shadow Work, offered by Amy Wright Glenn at the Institute for Birth, Breath and Death. In honour of this darkening time of the year,…
Tips to a Find a Good Trauma Therapist
you are already whole just like the moon, who is only going through stages I’ve been going through a bit of a metamorphosis in my own life, as i have…
Harvesting a Good Feeling
Raise your hand if you have been having some big feelings these last few months! Don’t worry if you are reading this alone, because chances are, all of us are…