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Choose Your Life Mondays – The Charlie Gilkey Edition

February 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments

I’ve been contemplating depletion a lot lately.
Partially because I’m offering five retreats in the next four months and partially because I’ve been on the brink of burning out myself.
And because I’ve talked to so many clients and friends lately who have wondrous lives but can’t enjoy them because they are crispy fried.
Charred.
I’m a learner, learning [...]

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Virtual and Mini-Retreat Winners

January 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Wowza – retreats are needed – that’s what I got from your responses to my Big Virtual Retreat Contest.
It is a holy need.
Sometimes in a “holy crap! I need a break” or in a “I’m full of holes, I’m ready for mending” or in a celebration of wholeness kind of way. All holy.
Here are a [...]

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Resting in Imperfection

December 17th, 2009 · 10 Comments

We’ve been resting this month at Comfort Cafe.
Exploring how to rest.

How to be… boneless wonder
tension drained away
nowhere to go, nothing to do
open to receiving without having to make anything happen or manage anything
easy with ourselves
content with what is
restful creativity
restfully engaged with something
resting from the quest
resting in imperfection
See, everybody has a different way of defining [...]

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Tags: Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort

Choose Your Life Mondays – The Holiday Prep Edition

December 14th, 2009 · 11 Comments

I’ve been doing Choose Your Life Monday posts for awhile now. I’ve blogged about being aware of various patterns, I’ve shared Life Organizer questions, and now I’m doing this post a bit differently.
Over the years, I’ve had a rocky relationship with holidays.
Celebrating the solstice by lighting candles in all the windows then going for a [...]

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