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Burned Out: Rising Up Out of Anxiety and Stress

9/29/2020

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Phoenix Rising from Ashes
Have you been checking the news?  Often?  Every day?  Is it comforting or ramping up your anxiety?  In an attempt to grab and keep your attention the headlines sensationalize the latest traumatic event in order to provoke a heightened emotional response.  Your brain is geared to being alert to threats to your safety.  Even hearing and imagining worrisome, shocking or disturbing events causes stress hormones to stream into your body.  When you watch repeated startling images it can invoke a posttraumatic stress response.  Your body does not know the difference between an event you are watching or imagining happening and actually experiencing it.....


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Give Me a Break: Change and Transformation is Rocking My World

12/31/2019

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It has been quite a ride and sometimes as I look back on 2019, I feel like my life was swept up inside a whirligig with the continuous momentum pulling me from one relational experience to the next.  It has been a year of connecting with friends, loved ones and new people, which has been richly rewarding.  There are so many dear people that I did not connect with yet have been so present in my heart.  I remind myself that there is time for everything and how valuable it is to pause and reflect on what this year has brought...


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Finding Gratitude Even When It Seems Impossible

11/23/2019

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Loving Kindness
The sunlight bounces off the myriad shades of burnished auburn and gold as I rake leaves into plump piles.  The azure sky is a deeper blue in autumn as the angle of the sun dips lower.  The air has a bit of a chill.  In Colorado the sun is quite intense and so the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold.  It is the perfect time to be in the garden or golfing or hiking or doing any activity outdoors.  "The Heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time." ~ Douglas Wood... 


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Wake Up to Your Life of Joy: Freedom from Oppression

7/19/2019

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​Sometimes it is best to move on.  Do you need a kick in the pants to disengage from people or situations that do not support you?  Rejoice because the support is here for you now.  The rising social consciousness in humanity mixed with the current cosmological aspects of Venus in motherly Cancer opposing Saturn the taskmaster in Capricorn has created a time period ripe for movement.  It is a movement towards freedom from emotional constraints and patterns of lack that oppress your spirit....  


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Coming to Center: What to Do When You Are Triggered

11/28/2018

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It’s tough when you are triggered.  It happens jet fast.  All of a sudden a prickly energy runs up your spine and you feel the energy rush to your head.  You are ready to fight and hotly defend yourself or your anger turns icy and you freeze out whomever or whatever is disturbing you.  Either way you disconnect.  It keeps you relatively safe, but it doesn’t feel good...  


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What Story Are You Living?

10/31/2018

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Tessa's Wonder"Wonderment" by Tessa Clarkson
There is Power in the Story You Tell Yourself
The creative life force flows through you and manifests itself continuously. Your body is recreating itself from the patterns in your DNA, from the thoughts and beliefs you hold, and the images and emotions that stream through your heart.  These are the elements of your story.  Your story is vast.  It is the story of your ancestor’s experiences and beliefs about life. It is the story of how they survived, their relationship to the land and the people they loved and those they had conflict with. It is the story of their pain and triumphs.  It is the story of their culture, the language, songs, dress, customs and mores, religions, social organization, governance and the ways in which they formed community.  Your story emerges from theirs but at the same time it is your own. 
  In every moment you are born anew from the story you tell yourself about who you are...


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Relational Awareness: (Part 2) Mirroring Unresolved Wounds

5/31/2018

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Mirror Couple
Did a ray of sunlight enter your life and suddenly a radiant being appeared in your midst that invoked a magnetic pull?  What attracted you to your partner in the first place?  Did she have a smile that melted you?  Did his enthusiasm and playful nature capture your desire for freedom and fun?  Did you admire his or her humor, assertiveness, confidence, or intellect?  Did she or he possess a savvy adventurous spirit?  Did you share similar interests or concordant life paths?  Perhaps it was charm and kindness that felt like a comforting hug.  Did you feel safe?  Maybe you experienced your partner intently absorbed and interested in you.  It felt so special.  To be truly seen fulfills a longing to be known.  Knowing we are accepted just as we are gives us a sense of deep belonging.....


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Frugality, Self Reliance, Generosity and the Cost of Not Receiving

3/19/2018

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ReceivingPhoto by Evan Kirby
As a child of depression era parents, I was taught to be frugal.  Growing up in a small farmhouse in the country, there wasn’t a need for many material possessions.  Anything that one owned was valuable.  Clothes were practical and seasonally appropriate.  Taking care of them was necessary.  If they became worn or torn, we mended them.  I learned how to sew, knit and crochet from my mother and grandmother.  To this day, I hand wash my sweaters and mend the moth holes.  Repairing anything over throwing it out and buying new is a first response.  If it can be fixed, do so....


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Abiding with Stillness

12/31/2017

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Is the turmoil and chaos around the world impinging upon your life?  Is your level of anxiety increasing?  Do you desire relief from uncertainty and stress?  The world is rapidly changing and it may seem overwhelming to constantly experience so much change.  You may want life to be simpler, easier, and less complicated.  You may have a strong desire for peace and serenity, for all of the turbulence, disorder and conflict to stop.  You want to enter into the “good times” where life is pleasurable and you look forward to each day without worrying about anything.  You want space to breathe and relax.  ​You want the “noise” to stop...    


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Dancing in the Grand Design of Chaos

10/20/2017

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Daily, you are being bombarded with news of disasters, endless tragedies, and destructive and dehumanizing behaviors causing you to be more aware than ever of the Chaos happening in the world.  These random and outrageous events affect your sense of stability and security and may leave you feeling confused, disturbed, helpless and frightened especially when those unpredictable events cause death and destruction.  You are connected in a way that you never have been before.  Instant news and the Internet have created a dense enmeshed information web that envelops the globe.  In any moment you can hear about a catastrophe at the farthest outpost on Earth.  Your body knows even before your mind.  You are feeling it energetically.  You are connected through more than just the wireless radio waves that carry information.  You are a cell in the body of humanity.  Whether you like it or not, you are in a constant reciprocal flow with the human electromagnetic field coursing through your heart and processed through your body and brain....


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The Power of Forgiveness When You Have Been Wronged

5/20/2017

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You’ve heard it before, “Forgive and Move on,” and inside you are still reeling from the pain and hurt that has been done and there is no way you want to “forgive, forget or move on.”  The feeling of violation is strong and you feel justified in blaming and having resentment.  If you were betrayed, unloved, neglected, rejected, lied to, cheated, dismissed, manipulated, silenced, emotionally or physically abused, you want justice and acknowledgment of the wrong that has been done to you....  


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Longing to Belong: Reconnecting to Home

4/2/2017

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The Longing for Home is the Longing to Belong. Isolation and the belief that you are alone in a chaotic world crushes your spirit.  More and more in our world of inter-connected technology devoid of touch and face-to-face kindness, the dis-ease of isolation is causing depression and anxiety. A return to feeling connected to others and belonging here in the world begins with connection within and the sense of Home.

The sense of Home is more than a function of place and time in the external environment.  It is a deeply felt sense in the interior of your being.  It arises in connection with your soul and an engaged, concerned relationship with the world...    


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Developing an Internal Sense of Safety:  Much Ado about Fear (part 2)

9/16/2016

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​“Anxious, stressed, scattered, I can’t concentrate and can’t sleep through the night.  I am not in physical danger, but I just never feel safe.”  The aftermath of fearful situations or the uncertainty that the world is not a safe place can leave you shaky, unsure and on edge.  You have lost a grounded sense of security.  How do you develop an internal feeling of safety?  You may wonder if or even believe that a haven of serenity exists inside of you, but when fear arises you may wonder how to get past the fear...


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Much Ado about Fear:  Regaining an Inner Sense of Safety (part 1)

8/13/2016

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Child Touching Bear
Fear gets a bad rap.  When it strikes, it zaps you with an instantaneous jolt of alarm so powerful that nothing else registers but the feeling of sheer panic.  Your body screams, “I could die, I could be harmed, I am in danger.”  All of your senses and bodily functions are corralled into doing just one thing….to get you away from whatever is the source of danger.  With lightning speed Fear propels you towards Safety.  It is the body’s most protective emotion.....


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The Rites of Spring Cleaning

5/31/2016

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White PoppyWhite Poppy by Tessa Clarkson
Mid spring inside rooms stacked high with books, magazines, papers, and paraphernalia finds me sorting through eons of my life.  Clothing from the 80’s still smell of good times camping, dinner club parties, couples sans kids, skiing, dancing, singing, playing in the band, and long summer nights throwing darts as we downed tequila and spent hours reflecting on life and the state of the world....


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