Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Season 2, episode 4 of The Rebranding Middle Age Podcast. In theory at least, the holiday season is ‘supposed’ to be about gratitude, connection/community, a focus on what’s truly most important (and for some of us, an acknowledgement of seasonal living and our relationship to nature). The reality for many, however, is an increase …
Inside: Episode eight of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. “What if joy is not only entangled with pain, suffering, and sorrow but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things?” – Ross Gay, Inciting Joy SUBSCRIBE TO THE ALIP PODCAST Be sure to listen and subscribe on iTunes to make …
Inside: Episode six of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. When I’m driving on the highway and someone zooms past me at high speed or weaves in and out of traffic to ‘get ahead’ I always wonder, “where are you rushing to?” And is putting your life and mine at risk worth shaving a few …
Inside: Episode five of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. We are wired for community and need each other. “We learn from an early age that ‘masked and armored’ is the safe and sane way to live” writes Parker Palmer in A Hidden Wholeness. We are wired for connection – we need each other. Yet …
Inside: You cannot shame yourself into wholeness. Instead, practice self-compassion like your life depends upon it. It does. Episode two of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. You cannot shame or bully yourself into wholeness. My inner critic was vicious. It bullied me, held me back, pointed out all my flaws 24/7, and told me …
Inside: You are not bad, wrong, or broken, or a problem to be fixed. All of you is welcome here. Episode one of the ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. All of you is welcome here. Your strength and struggle, your grief and pain, your creativity and joy. You are not bad, wrong, or broken but …
Inside: When we can put a face and name to an experience, we understand it better. Perhaps you’ll see yourself in some of my experience as an HSP. This post contains referral links. Personality typing and deepening my roots of self-awareness and self-compassion in different ways over the decades has helped me, layer by layer, …
Inside: Lunar tracking and Seasonal Living in general help me witness my growth and show up fully – with joy and on purpose – in every season. This is the final new moon before my birthday visioning week which marks a sacred time of year for me. Early summer each year, I look back to …
Inside: You can learn to embrace your gifts as an HSP! Learning about the trait of sensory processing sensitivity changed my life. I realized that I was not broken or wrong but a highly sensitive human navigating a messy world without much support or understanding of how my brain and nervous system are wired. This …
Inside: Understand different types of autumn seasons, common characteristics of autumn seasons, and learn to thrive in the autumn seasons of life. A practice of Seasonal Living teaches us that the natural world, biology, and human experience are patterned around cycles and seasons and change is constant. As one revolution comes to an end we begin again. …
Inside: Understand different types of winter seasons, common characteristics of winter seasons, and learn to thrive in the winter seasons of life. A practice of Seasonal Living teaches us that the natural world, biology, and human experience are patterned around cycles and seasons and change is constant. As one revolution comes to an end we begin again. …
Inside: The way to be okay is not for life to be all one thing and not the other, but to practice opening ourselves up to joy in the middle of the storm. Or the wildfire. I want to be clear about something right from the start: I prefer control, everything neat and tidy, my ducks …
