Today I pretended I was my own client (b/c if I can’t walk my talk, no sense in continuing, eh?) and made a two lists: one with tangible intentions and another to help me move through this sticky sludge like inertia I’m feeling. Here’s the second list.
Navigating Stuckness:
Have a good cry
Discover what I need to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘unknown’
Shift Happens
March 3, 2009Dancing Hope
October 30, 2008I walk through a local store past aisles bursting with untouched merchandise, my clicking shoes the only answer to an eerie silence. In response my stomache clenches recognizing the fear inside the quiet. Next I arrive at Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout. As our group of 30 begins stretching and moving to the music, an undeniable force of hope enters the room. I dance in [...]
Spiraling Birth
July 13, 2008A favorite by artist Margaret Lindsey, photographed upside down.
A year ago yesterday, I completed my time at Homestyle Midwifery, an amazing on-call midwifery service at St. Luke’s Hospital which was unfortunately closed due to larger budget issues. After giving all of myself to pregnancy and birth in my work life, I had left other aspects malnourished.
I knew I needed [...]
Integration
March 25, 2008When funding for Homestyle Midwifery was cancelled and I completed my full time job as coordinator in July of ‘07, I needed to replenish from the experience. Homestyle’s absence created space for a new unknown regarding my work life and the only direction was a whispered word:
Integration.
I found myself hibernating; even when I wanted to emerge illness kept [...]
In The Colors of Synchronicity
February 2, 2008Yesterday, just after I published Imbolc, seeds and grief, I entered my car with the question “What is the relationship between grief and seeds?” reverberating through me. I turned on the radio to Ben Harper’s “In the Colors “…
So, meanwhile, in the not knowing, I’ll keep dancing.
dark light
November 20, 2007Marianne Williamson’s poem took me to a slightly different place. I would like to move away from the competitive duality of light versus dark. For me, darkness is home to the unknown, the place possibility also lives. I don’t think it’s an accident that seeds grow inside dark earth like a baby in a mama’s womb. Light is [...]
