• Gratitude & Grace List: Happy 2017 Edition

    Inspired by my dear friend Gala Darling, I’m taking my love lists out of my (gold, sparkly) journal and sharing them with you. Little Things I Love: Frosty grass * The frozen canal * Still finding beautiful leaves and feathers on the ground, even in winter * The heritage kale growing through the ice in the garden * My riding boots * Sweet warm hay breath from the horses * Raw chocolate with ginger and hazelnuts * Dried orange slices (still) * Making altars * Celebrating advent and epiphany * Recording trailblazer interviews * The amazing work of my friends and teachers, (see below) * Sharing Healing Boxes hygge on…

  • New Year, Your Way

    It’s a new year and everyone is making huge plans. There’s a new start, clean slate and another chance to get it right. What pressure! Social pressure encourages us to make big plans, live your biggest life, change the world, lean in, make it count. It can seem like everyone is planning amazing goals, but what if that’s not possible for you? I believe that we need kindness more than admonishment and pressure. (Click to Tweet!) Lasting, healing change happens organically to the schedule of your body, not when an artificially constructed calendar turns over. I’m refusing to pressure myself just because of a calendar invented hundreds of years ago…