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Illegal Wildlife Trade Intersects with Homeschooling ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
People sense that when this global covid-19 pandemic abates we won’t be returning to normal—normal’s what got us here. No longer will a sneeze or cough in public be only background noise. We will move to dodge those droplets. What will your new normal look like? The world has given us so many signs that…
Read MoreMind/Body/ Spirit: Part II ll By Faye Maguire
What does the integration of the whole being look like in therapeutic practice? How do we address the separation of self that we have come to accept as the norm, and so begin to function with integration of the whole being as our new norm? First, let’s look at some definitions. What do we mean…
Read MoreBreathe Easy: Kitchen Herbs for Respiratory Health ll By Megan Anderson
Supporting health with everyday tools is much easier than you may think. Herbs, in particular, do not always come in complicated concoctions with exotic ingredients from far-off places. Many of the aromatic plants used to flavor foods are not only delicious but offer a myriad of health benefits as well. Here we take a look…
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Ants ll By Stephanie Boulton
This blog post is an amalgamation of excerpts from a paper I wrote a year and a half ago for an eco-psychology class. We were asked to write about a natural being that we found a connection with: Ants are among the social insects (social insects are all of the genera Hymenoptera which also includes…
Read MoreBeing With the “Full Catastrophe”: Cultivating the Nine Attitudes of Mindfulness to Navigate These Uncertain Times ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
Thirty years ago, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn published his groundbreaking work “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and illness”, outlining his work utilizing mindfulness practices to help patients. In this moment, we find ourselves grappling with a collective version of the “full catastrophe” in the form of…
Read MoreOne Air, One Breath, One Family: An Unprecedented Shared Experience ll By Dorothy Wallis
What we are experiencing on the planet is unprecedented. Never before have we had the magnitude of global interconnection and communication during a crisis that affects every human being, as we are experiencing in this moment. Much of humanity is focused on the media, the daily changes in life and the effect it is having on…
Read More5 Key Ways to Keep Calm with Mindfulness ll Kathy Hawkins
Do you often feel frustrated and anxious throughout your day? Sometimes it only takes one little thing to ruin your mood, stress you out, and tank the rest of your day. Maybe life has piled up around you making you feel overloaded. You’d like not to feel so overwhelmed and even to be able to…
Read MoreWhen Looking to get Lucky Let Your Mind Shine! ll By Brenda Bomgardner
Let your sapiosexual self out and get lucky this Saint Patty’s Day. The term sapiosexual, which is now mainstream on dating apps, such as OkCupid and Sapio, is putting a new twist on dating and takes a very different approach to partnership than the hook-ups and looks status quo. If you prefer brains over beauty…
Read MoreSpirituality: Wild Calls to Wild ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
I stood on the cliffside of the Baltit Fort in Hunza, Pakistan, as the wind howled and whipped snow flurries through the peaks of the towering Hindu Kush Mountains surrounding me. It was off-season, so I had that barren rock face to myself. My family had moved on inside. The boom of an avalanche broke…
Read MoreMind/ Body / Spirit: Integrating the Whole Being ll By Faye Maguire
We often hear about “treating the whole person”, which is an acknowledgement that modern Western medicine and psychology has, in practice, separated human beings in disparate parts and treated those parts as if they exist in a vacuum, unconnected to the rest of the person. Medicine has become the domain of specialists, highly educated in…
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