Self-Care

  • Creative Writing,  Good Things,  Self-Care,  Self-Discovery,  Self-Esteem,  Self-Reflection

    The Gift of Words

    What you would like to bring more of to the world? Words. Beautiful words that elevate the soul while singing psalms of love to the body. Words that evoke those invisible things that make up the dimensions of a life well lived. Words that call us home, that offer comfort, solace, peace, acceptance. Words that reflect back to us the true and radiant beauty of ourselves in our fullness. What motivates you to bring these — why do you bring them? Because this is how we know god. This is how we know ourselves. This is how we dance with the divine, how we partner our soul’s true purpose –…

  • Good Things,  Self-Care

    Postal Poetry

    Received the most beautiful poem through my letterbox this morning from Deborah Weber reminding me that “pleasure is a thing that also needs accomplishing”. Don’t you just love how real mail, delivered from heart to hand to hand to heart by way of international postal systems, leaves you feeling blessed and loved and cared for?

  • General News,  Self-Care

    Have You Met Your Bliss Body?

    The wonderful thing about Rumi was that he knew what it was to be in erotic relationship with the divine. He understood that embodied pleasure was profoundly sacred, and that there was a way to be with God (the Universe, Source, Oneness, the Goddess etc.) through sexual and sensual experiences. For me, this is the bliss body. The delicious sacredness of our flesh, and the gifts that are available to each of us through tender relationship with the body, are all ways in which we can embrace, and be embraced by, the Beloved. But, we get so caught up in our heads – in our shoulds and our shouldn’ts. We…