Waking Up to the Dark Ancient wisdom for a sleepless age By Clark Strand | Illustrated by Will Lytle | Penguin Random House (April 28, 2015) Do you often find yourself awake in the middle of the night? If you do, what do you do? Do you toss and turn and try to force yourself back to sleep? Do you start to take medications that help you sleep through the night? Or do you just lay back and relax in a semiconscious… Read more »
Wim Hof It was through my daughter, Tanya, that I first learned about Wim Hof. She suggested I listen to his podcast. I did and became intrigued. The Iceman Known as the “Iceman,” Wim Hof has done many way-out things in the cold: he climbed Kilimanjaro twice in a pair of shorts, ran a marathon north of the Arctic Circle in shorts, swam under a frozen lake in shorts (ok, probably a bathing suit), and he takes frequent ice baths.… Read more »
Happy New Year! These three words — Happy New Year — are full of new possibilities as we venture into the unknown world of 2021. My hope is that we all embrace it with an open heart. The world is in a state of amazing upheaval. None of us has ever experienced anything like this before on such a grand scale. Times like this can be the impetus for change – let’s make this happen! 2021 could be the year… Read more »
My December 2020 Message Hello and welcome to the last month of 2020. What an amazing year of change it has been. In last month’s message I touched on how uncomfortable uncertainty makes us feel. Let’s face it, 2020 has been unnerving at its best of times. Life, as we knew it, has changed. The increasing number of people affected by or dying from COVID-19 worldwide got me to thinking about our medical systems and how we approach death in… Read more »
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof By Deepak Chopra, M.D., Penguin Random House (September 16, 2008) Deepak Chopra has authored over 80 books. His signature 21-Day-Meditation Experience program has inspired millions of people around the world to meditate. This program originally launched with Oprah Winfrey in 2013. Transitioning from life to death Because I am called upon to help people with their end of life passage, I decided to reach back to re-read Deepak Chopra’s 2008 book, Life after… Read more »
Beginning today, I encourage you to write down things you are grateful to have in your life. Your list can be as simple or as complicated as you like. There are no rules except to have gratitude every day of your life. Plus, research shows that we need to write down at least one thing you feel grateful for every week. Aim for three times per week. Your Gratitude Journal To get you started, we’ve designed three PDFs for you… Read more »
My Summer with the Leprechauns: The Authorized Edition by Tanis Helliwell Wayshower Enterprises (February 18, 2012) Have you ever planned a trip and then remembered a book you wanted to reread? My Summer with the Leprechauns by Tanis Helliwell is the book I wanted to re-read before my trip to Ireland last year. I’m glad I did. I found my second reading just as fascinating as I had the first time. This book truly prepared me to recognize the magic… Read more »
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions (October 15, 2013) What a wonderful find! In Braiding Sweetgrass the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, unites science and spirituality into a beautiful tapestry showing us our need for both science and spirit to survive on this earth — and for the Earth to survive us. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and a professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University… Read more »
“To encourage the process of healing at a global level, we must first change the one thing over which we have real power: ourselves.” The Dance for All People Knowing that we only have power over ourselves, how do we go about healing the world? We start with right now. Right now, we can do one thing that when combined with other people doing one thing can make a difference. That one thing can be as simple as Taking time… Read more »
Be the change for healing Dear Readers, From my writings, you can tell these last five months have me wondering about our world today and what it will be like tomorrow. We are surrounded by dire headlines, protests, and disasters all over the world — natural and man-made. The results are emotional and physical chaos for us and mother earth. My hope is that we will be able to take advantage of these times resulting in huge CHANGE. I also hope… Read more »
