Category Archives: Healing

Ups & Downs

Posted on May 18, 2012 by jenny

(Written in August 2009) One of the downsides of having a really good week is that the slight amount of discomfort I’m feeling now — a little sad & scared — feels like a failure.  What’s wrong with me that … Continue reading →

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The “Wiggly One”

Posted on May 17, 2012 by jenny

(Written July 2010) I was feeling so sad all yesterday morning that I went to talk to Lynelle.  What had come to me was it was about the work with Caryn and trying to bring the Zen me and the … Continue reading →

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Ocean of Compassion

Posted on April 16, 2012 by jenny

“Ocean of Compassion” refers to an experience I had at Findhorn in the summer of 2001.  Earlier that year I had started reading Peter Levine’s book on the physiology of trauma: Waking the Tiger.  There are warnings all through the … Continue reading →

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No Expectations

Posted on April 9, 2012 by jenny

(Written in September 2010) It’s interesting. I’m feeling OK right now.  Yesterday I decided that I wasn’t going to do anything today, I also expected to feel horrible and figured I’d just soldier on.  This has happened other times when … Continue reading →

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Small Scale Diversity is Healthier than Huge Monocultures

Posted on March 29, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been rereading EarthDance, and I also picked up the Nature Conservancy’s magazine.  I read about a project in Northern Australia (Fish River Station) where they are giving a big chunk of land back to the Aboriginal people to manage.  … Continue reading →

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Gaviotas: a Village to Reinvent the World

Posted on March 23, 2012 by jenny

“Gaviotas is a village of about 200 people in Colombia, South America. For three decades, Gaviotans – peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids – have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas … Continue reading →

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The Will of God

Posted on February 15, 2012 by jenny

I’m SO TIRED. and feeling very empty — of meaning, of reason to go on.  Lynelle brought me the Cynthia Bourgeault CD’s on the “Wisdom Jesus.”  I remember listening to them driving down to Kripalu and back.  I really liked … Continue reading →

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A Time Out

Posted on February 10, 2012 by jenny

I desperately need a time-out from my life.  I wish I knew how to get one.  I read the Secret Life of Bees again recently, and found some paragraphs that were comforting. “I started thinking about the world loaded with … Continue reading →

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OOPS! Apologies to the Gratitude Dance

Posted on February 6, 2012 by jenny

I got the link wrong in the post for February 1.  Here it is again  Gratitude Dance! An opportunity to share the poem that’s used for the lyrics:  Stream Of Life The same stream of life that runs through my … Continue reading →

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Need Cheering Up?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by jenny

One thing I do, after I’ve called friends only to talk to their machines, is nourish my sense of humor with my favorite YouTube videos. There’s Paul Hawken’s speech to the Bioneers in 2006? was it? There’s Marianne Williamson on … Continue reading →

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