Category Archives: Temple of the Healthy Spirit

100 Families, still enrolling!

Imagine a new (and very old) healing relationship: I am a retired family doctor and a mother of two. I am capable of easing your worries about a child with a fever. I can go with you to a scary … Continue reading

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Presence, and Mourning

I just listened to the first of the shift network’s “Winter of Wellness” series. What a ride; the guest happens to be a conventionally trained M.D. (www.elliottdacher.org) who has moved beyond that form of healing. Someone else like me, out there! … Continue reading

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Subscribe to “100 Families” and “Mermaid Magic”

#1. The “100 Families” Project: Imagine a new (and very old) healing relationship: I am a retired family doctor and a mother of two. I am capable of easing your worries about a child with a fever. I can go … Continue reading

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Loving Touch and Opening the Heart

Here’s a holiday gift that requires NO MONEY… Give someone you love the gift of loving touch,in the form of a SAFE, boundaried “sensory awakening ritual”. This is a term I learned from Margot Anand, author of several books on … Continue reading

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More on Managing MAJOR Transitions

Wow. Weeks of wonder. The Extreme Weather issues are hitting closer to home. Personal relationships are heating up. I am having more miscommunications, with more necessity for CLARITY in setting boundaries, while offering love and support from an appropriate distance. … Continue reading

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Morning (mourning?) Mermaid Magic 3/12/2011

Wow. “Waving Overwhelming Wonder” Every woman in our circle ( we are at 21 signed on at present, and still open to more) deserves the skill of transformational breathwork to breathe through the images and words regarding the WONDER of … Continue reading

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Facts and Fantasies, as the World Turns (inside out)

Wow. “Waving Overwhelming Wonder”. That is the skill that I am honing as I bear witness to a world in chaos. What May Be Coming Next has many possibilities. In El Mundo Bueno *, the Japanese continue to demonstrate awe-inspiring … Continue reading

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Jessie speaks Truth to Power

I went to write about the Chaos of the moment, but Jessie has already said it all:

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Kings of Cups: The Endocrine System

    Hang on to your hats, gentlemen… this is the BIG one. No one told any of us how important and complicated this system is.  It is second only to our immune systems on being unknown and unappreciated—and that … Continue reading

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Musings, for a New Year

Yes I know that now, 10 years later, you will hear folks talk about the HYPE around Y2K. But I was there; it wasn’t “hype”. As a reminder let me mention that one of the smartest presidents we have ever had– Jimmy Carter– chose to weather this particular storm out in Costa Rica, in a hotel where rich Americans had shown up in droves, paying up to $400 a night for their rooms. Continue reading

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Dreaming away the Darkness, in Dummerston

Oh, what a time I had, dancing, Dancing, DANCING the darkest night away! Simba plays yearly at the Dummerston Grange Hall, and I was honored to become a part of this annual ritual.  Rupa’s elegant facilitation of a beautiful ritual … Continue reading

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Kings of Cups: Heart Health, and Beyond

Lesson One:  IT IS VITAL THAT WE PROTECT OURSELVES IN A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT What this means to men in November of 2010 is that lifestyle behaviors need to support wellness.  We don’t learn these wellness supporting behaviors; not in school, … Continue reading

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