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 bellflowers that...
by Katy | Jan 18, 2018 | awakening, personality, self-care, The Feminine
At an Enneagram presentation a year or so ago, a question came up about being selfish. Selfish is such a buzzword–especially for those of us who grew up as women in this culture, over the age of 30 or so… We were taught that to be selfish–to be...
by Katy | Sep 7, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices
Apple pie and cheddar cheese. Fear and courage. Hungry and satisfied. Independent and dependent. Grief and compassion. Utter lostness and presence. Single and partnered. Strength and helplessness. Female and male. Dualities. Opposites. Two halves of a whole. I name...
by Katy | Jul 6, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices, self-care
This is the final post in a 3-part series on Unfolding the Heart. Start here, or listen to the full talk. Let’s take this a little deeper. Let’s look for the innocence. This was a hard one for me in the forgiveness work I’ve been engaged in over the past year. To...
by Katy | Jun 22, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices
This is the 2nd of a 3-part series. Read the first. Or listen to the full talk. Just choose Love over Fear! Love forgives. Fear blames and holds grudges. Not so fast. This may be true. In fact, I know it is, but for most of us it’s not that simple. The truth is: ...
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 fall into...
