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{I originally posted this blog for 2024 New year on my previous website- but felt its pertinence as we enter into 2026, so am posting again...} First Full Moon of this new year 2024!! WHEW! Numerous times, I have tried to sit and write some kind of New Year Hooray  message but "life" got in the way. The New Year decided to start off with a "Bang" with the boiler in my house going (exactly at the same time we experienced the coldest temps of the year, but of course),my car ov

Ingredients: ✨ 1 cup Mushroom coffee, amazing- preferably self-mixed and ground ( yes, it must be amazing- there are no adequate substitutions!) ✨ Roses, or other flowers at hand, with morning dew still attached ✨ Early morning Sun ✨ Songs of local birds (song sparrow, catbird, Phoebe's are what I used here) Sip. Savor - with this Morning Beauty Recipe To make: Pour your morning mushroom coffee into a favorite coffee cup, preferably handmade, from clay of the earth. Step out

Shutting Off to Find Your Authentic Self

A little Christmas eve magic from my house to yours.... On Christmas Eve, I always feel the full on awe of the full magical potential of...

Winter Solstice Rituals for receiving the dark and stillness.

A simple breathwork process that I use to bring more peace and light into my body The world outside feels quite heavy at the moment... I am sure that many of you can relate to feeling into this current quality of time. World dynamics, national politics, shifting climate, personal challenges rippling out to bring in much heaviness and feel of hopelessness, helplessness and density. So this morning I sat with a candle, inside a holder wrapped in birch bark to reveal a dove sym

"I am worthy of my life, my body, my gifts. I am worthy of this life, this body, these gifts. I love and am worthy of my life. I love and...

I don't know about you, but little jingles, mantras and silly tunes have been a very simple powerful part of my healing path. Often...

To even understand ourselves and our relationship to beauty, I think we need to first understand how beauty is defined, within our own mind and body. The Oxford dictionary gives the following definitions for beauty: "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses , especially the sight; a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral sense And the Merriam-Webster: 1. the qualities of a person or a thing that give

A spur of the moment idea to sit down and record a couple videos as to what my morning routine typically entails.....beginning with thanking my bed! But of course! I have an awesome bed, often shared with a snoring old fat grandma cat! PART 1 - Gratitude and Shakin g PART 2 - Mirror Work and I am Beautyfull Facial Routine