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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.
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?
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.
On Power – a Choice Between Stories
What if we lived in a fundamentally intelligent and playful universe in which we could choose to participate, rather than just going along for the ride?
3 Keys to a Real Green Life
In this essay I share the three aspects of our culture that make it difficult and counter-cultural to live a real green life, and how we can turn those three challenges inside out to unpack the solution (the key) from within the problem.
New Beginnings in the Garden of You
We all have an inner life — an inner “garden.” When we neglect it, the useful, beautiful things in it whither and diminish, and the weeds take over. This post shares ways to help your inner garden thrive by tending it in alignment with Nature’s seasons.
First Day of Spring (Southern Hemisphere)
Spring is the time to look at the “seeds” or intentions we’ve been gestating over winter, to choose those with the best chances of surviving and thriving, and to let go of the rest of them. As in the garden, so in our inner lives. Otherwise, your coming “growing season” may be filled with too much stuff, or with stuff that isn’t serving you. And if it isn’t serving you then it also won’t be serving your world, which is an extension of you.
What will the Full Moon Reveal for You?
The lunar cycle offers us a template for reconnecting to Nature and living in more balanced, regenerative ways. In this post: lunar cycle and full moon concepts I’ve been learning about, along with the journal prompts I use at the time of the Full Moon.
Reclaiming Meaning for Our Holy Days
Ideas and tips for tuning into Nature’s cycles to help us re-create the depth of meaning and connection that has been all but lost as the “consumer religion” has swept around the globe.