Category Archives: Healing

The Dark Night of the Soul

Posted on January 26, 2012 by jenny

Recently I’ve been struggling with depression again again, and my friend Lynelle reminded me of a book that Elizabeth sent me several years ago when I was going through the worst of my breakdown.  The Dark Night of the Soul, … Continue reading →

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Medication

Posted on January 18, 2012 by jenny

In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that everything was getting harder. Just getting through the day is harder when I find it difficult to do practical things like shop or prepare a meal or take out the compost, … Continue reading →

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Choices & Dysfunctional Beliefs

Posted on December 29, 2011 by jenny

(Written in April 2003) I’ve been reading thru Byron Katie and feeling really discouraged because her process doesn’t work for me.  I think it must operate more at a cognitive level, has to do with beliefs that are taken on … Continue reading →

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Winter Solstice

Posted on December 24, 2011 by jenny

I got back this morning from an overnight trip.  I went to Canada for a Winter Solstice celebration, and spent the night at a friend’s house about halfway home.  I just sat here for a while, looking out at the … Continue reading →

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Bodymind Work

Posted on December 12, 2011 by jenny

(Written in February 2011) Kevin was a huge help.  I told him about the trouble I’d been having with my right leg — tho it was a lot better when I demonstrated the knee down twist.  I told him I … Continue reading →

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The Power of Love

Posted on November 30, 2011 by jenny

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Integration

Posted on November 20, 2011 by jenny

I took the collage down to Caryn, and did my best to interpret it.  I said how I’d been a little disappointed at first, but the addition of Bella and the dancers really brought it together.  How did that feel … Continue reading →

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“Visioning Boards”

Posted on November 19, 2011 by jenny

Four of us gathered to make “Visioning boards”.  We had a bunch of magazines, heavy paper, scissors, glue sticks, colored pens.  The idea was to gather images of things you wanted to have in your life in the future.  The … Continue reading →

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“Occupy Jenny”?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by jenny

In a bodywork session in January 2008 I had an experience that, in retrospect, sounds an awful lot like what Eve Ensler described for Occupy Wall Street: “I had the fortune to spend the night with a group of about … Continue reading →

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Occupy Planet Earth

Posted on October 27, 2011 by jenny

“Occupy together” is not just about banks, or finances, it is people angry and upset about “injustice and inequity and poverty and Wall Street corruption and soaring college debt and unemployment and homelessness, institutionalized racism and violence against women, the … Continue reading →

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