Healing in late summer: Many harvests
It is no coincidence that during this time of year, late summer, we honor our ancestors,...
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Tag: healing
Emotional wellness and your inner voice
Today on Self-care Saturday, I’d like to talk about our inner voice. We know there are...
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Can we ever truly be independent? Is nature?
Was it just me, or do all teenagers want independence? When I was a teenager and even as a young...
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The Grass Sometimes Seems Greener
Sometimes we think others are lots better off than we are and we’re tempted to get down about ourselves or to change what we are doing. Instead of thinking the grass is greener elsewhere and escaping our own situation, we can look at what the dissatisfaction is telling us about what we want in our life. What if we decide to begin to change from within and watch our ideal life begin to take shape before our eyes?
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Plant Spirit Medicine Healing & Beauty and the Beast
One of my favorite parts of the “Beauty and the Beast” movie is the moment when the animated objects run out of time and begin to turn completely into objects — no longer with human attributes such as feeling, speaking, moving, etc. There is something so poignant about those scenes. It absolutely made me think of Plant Spirit Medicine as a healing modality.
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How Plant Spirit Medicine Heals People
The inspiration for this post comes from a lovely video I just watched yesterday, thanks to my...
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In Nature, no good deed goes unnoticed
This natural world, this world of balance, exchange, wisdom and generosity which has such strong...
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Is Plant Spirit Medicine Healing Effective in Winter?
Okay! So we just had another snow storm in the Chicago area. Just when I thought spring time was finally here. I was already starting to be excited by the possibility of the plants, my dear friends, coming back to my garden and surrounding areas! This spring time snow reminds me of my first winter here after becoming a Plant Spirit Medicine healer.
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Cultivating the stance of a Plant Spirit Medicine healer
This morning I found myself contemplating the preparation that healers undergo in order to be able to share their gifts with others. A few weeks back I wrote about right relationship, and certainly this is one of the important things to cultivate with the plant spirits and the entire natural world as we endeavor to alleviate people’s suffering. Here are other ways in which we become ready as healers:
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Love, Friendship and Plant Spirit Medicine Healing
When I was in 7th grade, my dad took a nice photo of me sitting at my piano. He made black and white Valentine’s Day photo postcards for me to give to my school friends. Instead of “Happy Valentine’s Day,” the cards read “Happy Day of Love and Friendship.” As I contemplate Valentine’s Day I realize that my Plant Spirit Medicine healing work is all about love and friendship. Actually, all of Life is about that. All about relationship.
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Usher in a new year with Plant Spirit Medicine
It is absolutely important (and delicious to our spirits) to receive Plant Spirit Medicine any time of year but especially in winter. As they work powerfully and oh so very generously to bring us into balance and harmony, the plants remind us what is important in terms of our life purpose, and they help us connect with our larger vision for our lives.
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Healing our hearts and Plant Spirit Medicine
It is amazing how many burdens we can agree to carry at any given time. Not just our own but also other people’s burdens. These burdens are not ours to carry. They often turn out to be real drawbacks for our hearts. We are meant to live life in joy, together with others in community, learning, moving, flowing, like water. Working, observing, assimilating, taking things in. With gratitude for the chance to be alive, to be experiencing, breathing, smelling, singing, touching, moving, feeling.
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