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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.

Beyond Rightdoing and Wrongdoing

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

This is the 2nd of a series. Read the first and stay tuned! If you want to hear it in all one sitting, come hear me preach on Sunday June 25th at 10:00 am. Just choose Love over Fear! Love forgives. Fear blames and holds grudges. Not so fast. This may be true....

The F-Word

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

This is the 1st of a series. Read the 2nd here. If you want to hear it in all one sitting, come hear me preach on Sunday June 25th at 10:00 am. The F-Word. As a born-again Christian (and an Enneagram type One), this word was totally off limits. It was a BAD...

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...

Spring is Coming

by Katy | Mar 17, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Spring is coming, is calling, is COMING! Seeds, long held in the cozy dark, nutrient-rich soil, are beginning to push up through the darkness toward the light. Winter’s hold is not so tight. The light is growing, is coming, is calling—don’t go back to...

Essential Self-Care

by Katy | Mar 2, 2017 | body, mindfulness, practices, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

a few years ago, i was talking with a girlfriend about what to do when we're stressed--anxious, overwhelmed, rushing...how to help ourselves come back to ground. she mentioned going to a spa and spending the weekend pampering herself. at the time, i wasn't so sure....

Everyday Love

by Katy | Feb 14, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, practices, relationship, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

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...

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