Tag: Journal Prompts
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Preparation | Catharsis | Integration
I had the sense going into 2024 that I would be need to be patient and stay focused. I had experienced a strong enough taste of Yoga Nidra from the previous months of practice that began last Fall, to know that continuing a daily practice was going to change things. I knew that the friction…
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Death and Afterbirth at the bottom of a Lake
With startling synchronicity I found myself facilitating a dreaming circle while simultaneously participating in one. (I suppose when I saw the title “Earth Dreaming” I could’ve anticipated it, but I read that more figuratively so it came as a surprise.) In this circle we are inviting the Earth to communicate through our dreams. And the night…
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Getting Lost
You might think you really know yourself, and what you’re capable of, until you endeavor to move through a period of time without a well-formed “plan.” It turns out many attributes that I thought were character might’ve been well-honed methods pretending that I can control the outcome of my life.Boredom becomes a sticky, viscous material…
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The Art of Journaling
I suspect every one of you reading has heard the suggestion, or are aware of the practice, of journaling for self-care. It is one of the best, practically free ways to process emotional material and deepen insight. For me it’s right up there with conscious breathing and body awareness as an essential part of any…
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Is healing possible?
Healing can be a loaded word, and lately it seems trauma has become one too— the subject of numerous think pieces about whether the wider understanding of what constitutes trauma has gone too far. As a person who has experienced both “big T” and “little T” trauma, I feel it’s a great disservice to compare…
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Out of the Lion’s Gate and Into the Fire
Somewhere between July and August my Chariot went off-road. Things that had been moving smoothly, if sometimes slower than I wanted, started to develop snags. Like so many interruptions to flow these snags were entirely within my own mind and energy, not the sort to simply force through. Synchronicities were loudly asking for my attention…
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Timeline Hopping: Part 2
In late spring I found myself shifting towards exploring more about general topics, after a long stretch of more personal writing. If I’m being honest I guess I started wondering if it was interesting or if people want/benefit from hearing dispatches from my various astral travels. Or maybe as I started struggling out of this…
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Creative Expression and Energy Movement
This is the third part of a short series on energy movement Free play, spontaneity, and creativity are perhaps some of the better recognized assets of the child’s natural gifts. They are also the first to dissipate in a traumatic or high stress environment. When I worked as a child therapist, it was so reliable that…
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Heart Opening and Boundaries
Any time energy centers develop blocks, it’s always for a good reason. The arrangement and flow of the energy body is ideally suited to meet one’s environmental conditions and is adaptive in nature, but sometimes we retain certain patterns of movement even as our conditions change. The energetic blueprint of the body works just like…
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Falling in Love with a forest
Due to some unexpected events, my wife and I changed our vacation plans and moved up our planned trip to Asheville a month earlier.I’m an almost fanatical beach person, my life heavily arranged in the summer months around facilitating very regular trips to the beach to swim and float. I have more ordinary enjoyments of…
Inward Vision 