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If you’re feeling a little bit stuck, or cut off from yourself, or maybe too emotional or scattered, take a baby step and choose a practice or some inspiration from my blog to support you.

You are crafting your rich and soul-fulfilling life one mindful choice at a time.

Happy Spring Equinox 2019!

by Katy | Mar 20, 2019 | awakening, creativity, earth, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles | 0 Comments

Spring Equinox is Thursday March 20th at 4:59 pm Central Time. The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love. Every seed has awakened and so has all the animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we,...

nurturing & greeting rituals

by Katy | Mar 8, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, practices, relationship, ritual, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Imagine coming into the presence of a baby. (Or, if it's easier, a baby animal.) Eyes round and open, she is awake and alert, expressions flitting across her face. Would you ignore this luminous presence? Or would you take in her precious being...

to love

by Katy | Feb 14, 2019 | body, earth, mindfulness, practices, relationship, ritual, seasons & cycles | 2 Comments

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are part of everything we see— this is the love that...

Remembering

by Katy | Jan 25, 2019 | body, earth, poetry, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Remember by Joy Harjo from She Had Some Horses Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away...

Serene Alchemist of the Wild

by Katy | Jan 3, 2019 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Serene Alchemist of the Wild, she whispers into the circle of women at Women’s Temple, looking straight at me. Yes, the women nod, it’s my temple name. These women don’t know me. We have just spent about an hour dancing and practicing in circle together,...

the longest night

by Katy | Dec 20, 2018 | practices, ritual, seasons & cycles | 0 Comments

Winter Solstice is just about here. Friday, December 21st, at 4:23 pm Central Time. This is not a human-formed celebration, but an earth event, a turning of the earth wheel that happens once each year. As we are inhabitants of this earth, earth standing...

living fully!

by Katy | Dec 6, 2018 | awakening, body, practices, self-care | 0 Comments

"For what makes you come alive can keep you alive, whether you are paid well for it or not." ~ The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo, p. 399 I’m just back from my last training session to become a Full Voice Coach! What a rich and beautiful time, being with...

Tea & Be

by Katy | Nov 16, 2018 | food, mindfulness, practices, self-care | 0 Comments

Tea after water when I first awake. Tea as a meditation. Tea on a walk through the neighborhood. Tea while I work. Tea in the afternoon with a creativity break. Tea shared with friends. Tea in the evening before bed. I wrote this post on the airplane on...

what do you want to re-member?

by Katy | Oct 31, 2018 | mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care | 0 Comments

What have you inherited? With All Hallow's Eve, the Day of the Dead, and All Soul's Day almost here, it's a good time to consider our ancestors. We have inherited so much that we often forget how indebted we are to those who came before us... Your...

ripening into harvest’s fullness

by Katy | Oct 11, 2018 | body, food, mindfulness, practices, seasons & cycles, self-care | 0 Comments

Our bodysouls are always doing their best to move toward their fullest, wholeness in any moment. Even when we get pneumonia unexpectedly, when our bodies have pain we don't understand, when we feel exhausted... In the Diamond Approach, we call this the...

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