Growing Trust Through Guided Visualization

After sharing my personal experience, I’ve been thinking more about the benefits of guided visualization. There are plenty of holistic websites that describe  how guided imagery helps people manage stress, heal ailments and enhance job performance. Other sites explore how we can use imagery to create a desired outcome.
The kind of guided visualization I’m interested [...]

A Visit With Shakti

“Shakti, supreme goddess of India, source of all energy that embraces the entire universe, dances her way into our lives…”  From Daughter’s of the Moon Tarot Book.
While on the outside I may look like a domesticated mother, inside a creative fire burns, fueling an ecstatic hunger to express.  Dance.  Sing.  Write.  Just last week I was [...]

Imbolc, seeds and grief

I can’t seem to tear myself away from staring at pictures of Glastonbury, England.   Perhaps it’s because today is Imbolc, and though I am culturally Jewish, I feel especially at home in relationship with pre-patriarchal earth based traditions.   Imbolc marks the middle of winter and holds the promise of spring.  In surfing (procrastinating!) I found a website that offers some [...]

Big Beauty in small bites

My husband immigrated from Russia when he was 12 and he will often half tease our kids with stories of what it was like to grow up in hardship.  When our kids complain about not liking a meal, he’ll say, “What’s this, ‘I don’t want chicken’?!  When I was a kid, I was happy just [...]