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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.

and there is only the dance

by Katy | Aug 11, 2017 | awakening, body, practices, ritual | 0 Comments

We begin in the name of Allah. Alleluia, Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. There is no God but God. Sacred, Holy, Heaven here on earth. Just four of the many chants/dances we began with our first night of the Dances of Universal Peace retreat with Sufi...

Savoring Dave, Chocolate & Summer!

by Katy | Jul 27, 2017 | food, poetry, seasons & cycles | 2 Comments

something different: a little, rhyming summer poem for you! 🙂 Even though we rarely eat sweets, Dave's 60th needed a treat. Something summery, simple, and celebratory to follow salmon, salad, memories, and stories. The family in the garden...

Building Temples of Forgiveness

by Katy | Jul 6, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices, self-care | 4 Comments

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....

Beyond Rightdoing and Wrongdoing

by Katy | Jun 22, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices | 4 Comments

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...

The F-Word

by Katy | Jun 8, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, self-care | 8 Comments

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...

Bowing Practice

by Katy | May 25, 2017 | awakening, body, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine | 2 Comments

I’ve been practicing bowing recently. When I was researching possible publishers for the book I’m working on, I stumbled upon a book called Bowing by Dahn Yoga Education. I was intrigued and ordered it. When it came, I devoured it in one sitting and started...

Cooking up Joy

by Katy | May 10, 2017 | awakening, body, Breakfast, Dairy-free, food, Gluten-Free, mindfulness, practices, self-care, Tea-Time, The Feminine | 0 Comments

One of the things I am so grateful to my mom for is the time we spent in the kitchen together! 🙂 She made it fun! We all got to get involved in whatever was being cooked up--from blanching and peeling peaches and canning them, to scraping corn off the cob for...

Free Heart

by Katy | Apr 26, 2017 | awakening, body, collage, mindfulness, poetry, practices, The Feminine | 0 Comments

May a woman's heart be a vast open field upon which wild horses can run. ~ Tibetan Buddhist saying My New Year's theme for 2017 is Free Heart. While i knew clearly that this was my path for 2017, i needed time to understand more and to live into it...

reprise: Come, yet again, come.

by Katy | Apr 14, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices, ritual, self-care | 2 Comments

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...

reprise: babysteps for presence

by Katy | Mar 29, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, practices, ritual, self-care | 0 Comments

do you feel it? it seems since the elections and the inauguration, we’ve been in a confused, chaotic, speeded-up world… i know it’s easy for me to feel like i have to learn more, do more, be more… we are bombarded by the outer world, with its...

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