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Authentic Voice Project: C is for Contentment

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 3 (Full Moon) C is for Contentment Ahhh, contentment. Society says: Contentment is swinging on a hammock while staring at the sky. It is walking along a beach, hand-in-hand with your love, golden retriever bounding by your side. At least that’s what the commercials would have us believe. But most [...]

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Do you need a map or a box of chocolates?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I have to thank Mark Matousek, with whom I took a class at the Therapeutic Writing Institute, for his insightful article in Psychology Today: What’s Your Metaphor? Shifting Shapes In The New Year. This post is my response. Having never asked myself what word or phrase I consider my life metaphor, and how it affects [...]

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Again with the Tension?! (Or, It’s OK not to know)

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

It’s happened again. An old theme has come circling around, adding another new level of understanding. June 2009: I wrote this post on a different blog, which I then re-posted here in July 2011. This is the gist: During a Journal Therapy training I wrote (well, it kind of wrote itself while I held the [...]

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Hallelujah!

Posted in In my Humble Opinion, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It would be a stretch to say that all Christmas music is beautiful. Every year when turkey-leftover soup is still very much on the menu and I find myself in a store singing along with some ear-gnawing song, I cringe with self-derision. But the Christmas carols, the ones I have heard and sung since birth, [...]

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Trust your pen

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on December 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I have to share a beautiful experience that speaks to the power of the pen to tap into something deeper and older than we can explain. This morning I was reading The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. I won’t go into all the emotions this book arouses in me but I cannot emphasize [...]

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Natural Wisdom – in verse

Posted in Healing, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

These poems were written by a participant in one of my recent workshops, Natural Wisdom: Writing as Spiritual Voice. They are Alphapoems written in response to prompts while listening to sounds from nature. As you will read, not all are directly related to nature, but this is an example of the wonder and power of [...]

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Resume the Stability of Tension

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , , , on July 13, 2011 | 7 Comments »

This is a post from a couple of years ago. I am re-posting it because this phrase – Resume the Stability of Tension – keeps popping back into my mind lately. Although I am in a completely different life situation now (I left my job very soon after this post and started grad school a [...]

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Trust the Process, pt. 8: I Am Matter

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“Are those really concepts? Aren’t they aspects of a woman’s life?” (Referring to the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone) “What it means to be a woman? Don’t you mean what it IS to be a woman?” “Don’t YOU matter?” … “Yes, I do matter. I matter. I AM matter.” And so go conversations at Goddard [...]

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It is connections that heal

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , on January 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Since I began grad school last August I have been particularly awe-struck by the twins, Synchronicity and Serendipity. Connections everywhere! Seemingly unrelated events, conversations, books, memories, people have suddenly fallen together like perfectly synchronized cogs. My life paths and how they have led to where I am and what I am doing today is the [...]

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Trust the process, pt 7 (Everything is connected, 2)

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In my Yoga ‘n’Write class this week I talked of the need for balance between our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. We wrote about where we were at this moment in each of these areas and where we want to be.* Our yoga teacher told us about the Sheaths: Physical Body, Mental Body, Energy [...]

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