Nourish Your Intentions With Mindfulness

Volition is a source of energy that informs our intentions and energizes our actions, but not all volition comes from the heart. When we’re swept away by clever, compelling messaging from outside of ourselves, we lose touch with our internal volition — with our values and our authentic desires.

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Growing Taro: an Easy, Nutritious Homegrown Carbohydrate Solution

Taro is an easy-to-grow, nutritious homegrown alternative to rice and pasta from the supermarket. It can be a self-renewing food source, especially useful for when extreme weather events cut supply chains — because the wetter it gets, the happier taro is.

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What You Were Meant to Learn About Mistakes, and What to do if You Didn’t

If you grew up without learning that mistakes are ok you may have developed a strong inner critic who, like a 5 year old trying to prevent trouble, now controls your adult life to keep you from taking risks. The antidote is to give your self the compassionate leadership you missed out on when you were growing up.

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Full Moon Rituals to Discover Your Gifts and Illuminate Your Obstacles

Simple full moon journaling and breath work rituals to help you celebrate achievements and illuminate the obstacles blocking your path.

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6 Unexpected Benefits of Urban Foraging

This post demonstrates how urban foraging can transform your relationship with nature, wellness, and community. By GUEST AUTHOR Chelsey Reis.

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The Power of Hindsight

Each time I benefit​ from the perspective that hindsight offers, it adds a little to my ability to surrender to the present moment.

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Reconnecting Can Change Everything

When we feel disconnected, everything falls apart. What if instead of scrambling to try to control everything in our lives, we just focused on restoring our spiritual connection, whatever that means for each of us?

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How to Render Fat For Cooking, Soap-Making, Skin-care Recipes, or Candle-Making

I used to put off the task of rendering fat for cooking, soap making, and skin care – because it was time consuming, messy, and intimidating. After making every imaginable (and some un-imaginable) mistake, here’s the simple method I use now. Clean, odour-free rendered fat without the mess and stress.

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Where Am I Locating Power – Inside or Outside of Me?

Locating power outside of myself leads to me trying to create safety for myself by controlling the people and events around me. Conversely, locating power within myself liberates me to change my internal experience regardless of my outer relationships or circumstances — and that makes a difference to how satisfied and effective I can be both personally and in my efforts to make a difference in the world around me.

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We All Need a Village; Here’s How to Build One

In this post I share my definition of a village, why we all need one (whether or not we’re raising children), and the paradox you need to grasp that may enable you to start building your own village even when doing so seems impossible.

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