healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Tying the Knots
Just over three years ago, my youngest son and his beautiful girl Ruby announced that they were getting married. Both of them are unique, a bit unconventional, and they share a love of bohemia, Lord of the Rings and all things woodsy. My home was newly branded as an empty nest after nearly four decades of kids, friends and orphans using it as a soft place to land. Even though I worked full time, there was something missing. I spent too much “me time” in front of trash tv or social media. I longed to do something creative, but I felt that whatever I did would never be good enough. When the bride mentioned that she wanted a large macramé backdrop for her mountain wedding, and was planning to make a custom purchase, I blithely said, “I can do that.” I was so innocent.
By Pam Hoyle5 years ago in Motivation
Herb Wisdom, Women's Wisdom
It's always been a little dangerous being a wise woman. Dangerous in whatever the sense it's meant: intelligent, cunning, experienced, old, witchy. In the long ago past, it meant you walked the fine line between miracle worker and heretic. To know the natural world, to understand it and feel it and teach it was somehow a sin. To be a wise woman was to be valuable and vulnerable, to have a weapon trained against you at all times. Is it the same today? It's still dangerous for a woman to speak her truth, her experience, her wisdom. Depending on the subject she can be ostracized, re-traumatized, re-victimized, vilified-only now it's not just a village hurling offense, it's on a global scale. In this moment that judgement is on every phone, and computer and television and it's a stone that drags us all down away from the light. Sisters, let's light a candle of wisdom together. I want to fight this tide of indifference and skepticism and sensationalism. I want to bring back the old ways that mattered, that helped, that healed. It is my passion to preserve this women's tradition, our oral history. The history of every culture that translates perfectly because it is the language of the body and the spirit, it is our collective medicine story.
By Sarah Snider5 years ago in Motivation
Preserving Kindness in a Busy World: We Are All Connected
Three times in the last two months I have almost been run over by someone else's car. Every time a customer who was running near me had to move abruptly and pass by, it was clear that he was upset by the obstacle, which was me.
By Arya Sharma5 years ago in Motivation
My Jewellery Escape
The activity I'm currently exploring is in creating embroidery jewellery this is a recent hobby that I have showed an interest in due to a health condition that has decided to appear in my life which resulted in a lot of changes that weren't positive and at times hard to deal with. So to fill my days and to keep my mind occupied I decided to learn how to create embroidery jewellery so I decided to do a few online courses in that particular area of jewellery making.
By Nada Ghazawy5 years ago in Motivation
The Therapeutic Art of Finger Knitting
Everyone warned me. They told me university was ‘tough’ - so different from high school. I told people I liked a challenge (and usually, I do!) However, the challenge of living 113 kilometers from my twin sister, moving from a sleepy town in the country to the chaos of downtown Toronto and trying to balance an incredibly stacked workload proved to be a bit more difficult than the trials of my high school years. Anxiety took up constant residence in the pit of my stomach and on the palms of my hands while fatigue followed me like unrelenting karma. As someone who had rarely dealt with stress in the past I was overwhelmed. Wading through the excess of self-care advice on the internet proved a stressful task in and of itself. Mindfulness, reading, meditation, bubble baths, exercise - I carried these remedies for stress around my waist like a tool belt but, while being viable options for others I’m sure, none of them really worked for me.
By Taite Krueger5 years ago in Motivation
The Aftermath
In early autumn of 2018, my world was shaken to its foundations. Hurricane Michael destroyed the heart of the Florida Panhandle and wreaked havoc across a major portion of the Southeastern United States. The storm grew so fast, we didn't even have time to evacuate. Instead, my partner and I were sheltering in place with my family when the stormwall struck. For over an hour the winds raged, trying their best to tear the roof from my grandparents' home. We watched as trees were felled, signs were ripped from the ground and thrown down the road, and torrents of rain flooded the surrounding area. During the peak of the storm, we heard the ceiling groan and shudder as it nearly came apart above us. It was the single-most intense and terrifying moment of my entire life.
By Rowan Vetere5 years ago in Motivation
5 Questions to Discover Who You Are and What Will Make You Happy
For twenty-five years I was happily married and had a good job, with many friends and a lot of money. At the same time, I became seriously depressed, underwent anxiety, and entered into a long-term relationship with a psychiatrist.
By Bishnu Bhandari5 years ago in Motivation
Setting Emotional Boundaries: Stop Taking on Other People’s Feelings
The longer I sat on the phone, the more I got. My mother was on the other side, as usual, throwing her feelings at me. I had moved to Los Angeles to graduate from school to escape all of this - my mother's unhappiness, my sense of responsibility, the pressure to be perfect.
By Samyog kandel5 years ago in Motivation
How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Let Your Life Shine
I have been in a state of wanting to be happy for as long as I can remember. I thought I was looking everywhere. I tried relationships, work, a fun trip, and a life full of friends and work, but I felt anxious. I was unhappy with life. The years of treatment trying to fix my problems did not give me a sense of peace in any way I thought possible.
By Samyog kandel5 years ago in Motivation
