It isn’t like this hasn’t been a lifelong theme. I have an addiction to being busy. I create a life of constant going and constant giving. I have a really hard time saying no and I an even harder time taking care of me. I loathe the idea of having free time. I realize that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reflection’
Chaos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chaos, disabilities, growth, letting go, reflection, self-care, therapy, yoga, yoga for people with disabilities on May, 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Finding me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged life, love, nature, Oneness, reflection, spirituality, trees on March, 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My latest spiritual deepening comes from The Book of Awakening, written by Mark Nepo. It is a rich and wonderfully insightful daily reading that both grounds and opens me. Yesterday Nepo wrote about finding ourselves within the aspects of nature. He offered an idea of learning from nature–how the stone cracks to let light in, [...]
Week of the year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2011, gratitude, insight, reflection on December, 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a little girl I often spent new years eve at my grandmothers house. On the morning of a new year, my grandmother would ask that we go to the back door and kick the old year out by saying thank you and then go to the front and graciously welcome the new year in. [...]
December Reverb time again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, expansion, growth, love, reflection, reverb11 on December, 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day 1 What was your guiding word for 2011? My guiding word for 2011 was expansion. I had hoped (and am glad to report) that did not mean my hips. When I began my journal January 1, 2011 and the word that came to me was expansion, I had no idea what might be in [...]
Sit and wait
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, jobs, life, reflection on November, 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It is not like I haven’t endured changes before or received news that, at the time appeared to be devastating. I have learned in the last three years that everything–regardless of how awful it seems at the time–is an opportunity to grow. The most challenging times can offer the most rewarding outcomes. Over the last [...]
To be free
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged freedom, reflection, soul on August, 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The wise gull says, ”We choose our next world through what we learn in this one; learn nothing and the next world is the same. The same limitations, the same lead weights to overcome.” During this time of deeper self-discovery, I am challenged by the echoes of the voices inside my own head and by the [...]
It seems
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged reflection on August, 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that when the heart is yearning for something outside of what we think life should be giving us, we miss what life has simply put in front of us? For me it is sometimes missing the value of friendship that gets lost in the hurry of life. It is the connection to [...]
My Eulogy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged philosophy, reflection, truth on August, 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The final assignment offered in my Philosophy class was to write your own eulogy. It was an experience of great reflection and inner peace. It was a lifetime that was spent seeking purpose and seeking freedom. Spending much of my life grappling with feelings of worthiness and struggling with the ability to speak my truth [...]
In awe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hiking, nature, reflection on July, 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Discovering a new trail recently, I find myself in awe each time I step foot on the forest floor. I am mostly in awe of the sheer size of the trees as I walk along side hundreds of ponderosa pines that reach towards the sky in their vertical beauty. It is here in the silence [...]
Me and a trail
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hiking, introvert, life, reflection on July, 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I made my way along a trail through the trees and canyons on a sunrise hike with only my pups as my companion, I realized (again) how important it is for me to re-fuel the introvert that is me with solitude, with silence, and with introspection. Getting lost is easy for me, especially when [...]
