Self-Care
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Sacred Stories: Feast of Mary Magdalene & Moving into Trust
Image Credit: Tanya e Torres Sacred Stories Series: seasonal psycho-spiritual checkpoints to share our history & remind us to pause. Today is the feast day of Mary Magdalene, traditionally, this is the time of year that people celebrated everything from redemption and devotion to the Divine Feminine. She’s been ascribed to the archetype of the sacred prostitute and named Apostle to the Apostles. Whether you are Christian, pagan, agnostic or atheist, if you live in the western world, you live in a society shaped by and saturated in these sacred stories. [Tweet “Sacred stories are all around us, in our dreams, woven into our most beloved tales.”]
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Gratitude & Grace List: Summer Loving 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. May they spark smiles for you too.
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Trailblazer Interview: Christy Tending & REAL Self Care
Christy Tennery-Spalding is an activist, yoga teacher and self-care instigator. Her classes also draw on yoga philosophy; Buddhist teaching and meditations; and some practices from Taoism. Her wish is for a healthier, more just world for all of us to live in. And her deepest longing is for all of us to be free together.
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My Favourite 5 Songs to Help You Smile
Sometimes, you just need a good song playing, you know the feeling? Maybe you are gearing up for a long-procrastinated task. Or perhaps you are feeling low on spoons, but need to attend an appointment and are looking for some beats to lean on as you get dressed. You could be looking for something uplifting to sing instead of listening to your thoughts take the same old tracks, inner-criticing around your mind.
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Finding Focus: Insights for Exploring our Divinity
“…I didn’t have time to pray, I had to make use of every spare moment for the seemingly endless array of things on my ‘to-do’ list… When I had no choice, when those little structures that we erect to keep ourselves going started cracking, I did stop. And in the stillness, I realised anew that comfort, renewal, and deep peace can always be found in the present moment if we allow ourselves even a few minutes to rest with our Source. No matter what the circumstances of our lives are, we can place ourselves in the presence of the Divine, the moment we decide to be still, to breathe, to…