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self-love/power
personal authority
truth-seeking/speaking
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Grounded in Hope
Free use from Pixabay Each year at this time, I look forward to the tulips 🌷 blossoming in my front yard, the geese returning, and seeing the children playing outside, their winter jackets all tossed in a heap on the last pile of melting snow. The spring season represents opening, rejuvenation, and renewal. The promise of spring shows us that after…
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The Unappreciated Value of an Empty Life
The Vastness of Space “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” ~Carl Sagan Space comprises 96% of the known universe. Our human bodies are 99% space. Yet, despite the prevalence of space everywhere, we humans...

I’m in a Long-Term Relationship With Writing
“For now.” That’s the response my husband teasingly gives me each time I claim that some new way of being in the world—a coveted role or title—will be mine forever, or, in cultural terms, that I’ve finally figured out “What...

I Am Who I Am — For Now
After decades of trying to figure out “what I want to be when I grow up,” I finally found a label that I can embrace wholeheartedly: “multipotentialite.” I heard this concept in a Ted Talk entitled “Why Some of Us...

Six Real-Life Ways to Experience Inner Peace
“The pursuit of inner peace is more important than the search for happiness or success.” ~Chris Shea If you’re reading this article, it’s probably because you find inner peace to be elusive. You’re not alone. Given the turmoil of our...

Six Effects of Spiritual Practice That Have Nothing to do With Finding Peace
A Not-So-Peaceful Awakening “I thought yoga was going to make you more peaceful,” my husband teased gently. I had just gotten home from my weekly evening yoga class, and my mind was spinning with thoughts and ideas I just had...

Writers: Honor the Passion of Your Original Idea
“Let inspiration lead you wherever it wants. For most of history people just made things, and they didn’t make such a big freaking deal out of it.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert Hedging, equivocating, and buffering While peer-editing an article for a friend...

Parenting isn’t an Instinct; it’s a Muscle You Develop Over Tiny Moments in Time
Photo by Manuel Schinner on Unsplash Colicky Beginnings As a new parent, I often worried that I didn’t “click” effortlessly into the role of mother. I didn’t feel an instinct or a parenting intuition awaken within me moments after...