by Katy | May 9, 2018 | Enneagram, food, mindfulness, personality, seasons & cycles
I’ve spent a lot of time pulling weeds. Starting with the most common ones—Creeping Charlie taking over the whole backyard when I first moved in with Dave, grass growing in garden beds, plantain, dandelions, and here in Minnesota, those purple...
by Katy | Mar 6, 2018 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices
What does it mean to be awake? An age-old question, for sure. If things aren’t going wrong in our lives, we sometimes don’t even know that we’re not very awake. It can be so easy to glide along in the comfortable illusion of awakeness. I’m...
by Katy | Oct 12, 2017 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices, The Feminine
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Einstein Dave and I taught a daylong on the Law of Three, a deeply embedded teaching of the Enneagram, for our Minnesota Enneagram community this past...
by Katy | Jun 8, 2017 | awakening, Enneagram, mindfulness, self-care
This is the 1st of a 3-part series. Read the 2nd here. Or listen to the full talk. The F-Word. As a born-again Christian (and an Enneagram type One), this word was totally off limits. It was a BAD word. Only BAD people used it. And I, of course, did not want to...
by Katy | Apr 14, 2017 | awakening, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, practices, ritual, self-care
Come, come, whoever you are Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving Ours is no caravan of despair Come, yet again, come. ~Rumi Both Passover and Easter are about freedom. The brain, on the other hand, likes patterns it can repeat, which makes it easy to...
by Katy | Feb 14, 2017 | awakening, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices, relationship, self-care, The Feminine
It’s Valentine’s Day. How about a focus on real, everyday Love? Romantic dinners, heart-shaped gifts, chocolate, sexy lingerie—they are a fun way of expressing Love, but I’m talking about taking steps to choose and create Love in a simple, daily way. Today, can you...
