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Struggling with the Spirit of Christmas

Christmas has never been my favourite time of year and that is true for as far back as I can remember. It’s not that I don’t like spending time with family or friends. It’s not that I don’t like giving gifts. At one point I would have said that I didn’t like receiving gifts but […]

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Happy Equinox!

Happy Equinox! What an exciting time of year! The equinox marks the time in the year where everything is most equal or closely in balance. The yin and yang energies are at a point of intersection in the spring and again in the fall.  Yesterday or today, you may have noticed an equal amount of […]

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Summer Solstice and taking action in the light

Happy Summer Solstice! Today, in the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the greatest space between light and dark, yin and yang, and the Heavens and the Earth.  For the last 6 months, since the Winter Solstice, yang energy has been rising.  Yang is often thought of as masculine energy and with masculine energy there is a […]

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Sweet Surrender…

Surrendering to my body has been the theme of the last week. The first couple of weeks, I wanted to do, do anything and everything that would speed up my recovery so I could get on with my life, until I realized THIS is my life, being present in my body, on this journey, right […]

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Arrival…getting to the gate

It was 1 week ago today that my strong and gentle son, Andrew carried me into my home from the hospital allowing my healing to really begin. I wept as I saw my bed, in pain and relief, gratitude and love for the experience. Oh, to be in the folds of such love of my […]

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