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Christmas…the Most Terrifying Time of the Year?
“Marley was dead: to begin with.” – Charles Dickens If you grew up in the United States, you know that the winter holiday season is supposedly the most wonderful time of the year. But a lot of people are not joyful right now, far from it. Some suffer from seasonal...
4 Simple Ways to Slow Down During the Holiday Rush
I recently overheard a mom at my daughter’s school say something about December being the busiest month of the year. I cringed, not at her statement, but at what was behind it. Our bodies aren’t meant to go this fast, this hard, all year, let alone during winter. This...
Ready or Not, Here She Comes
As each season passes, I tend to feel – or want to feel – that I’ve cycled through the receding season and am ready for what is to come. Especially as I’m facing the colder, darker days, it helps to be done with the summer heat until next year. I am certainly always...
Hope and Climate Despair
Merry Beltane! Beltane is a Celtic festival that honors the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. At this time, the energy of life, light, fertility, and mirth are growing to their summer peak. You don’t have to be of Celtic heritage (I’m not!)...
Reason to Hope
I used to love Groundhog Day. In the deep of winter, you can at least begin to think about spring! Of course, when the critter foretells six more weeks of winter, it’s a bit of a blow. But the conversation starts to shift and the energy of renewal begins to rise....
An Autumn Death
This time of year is recognized by various cultures for the deep shifts taking place. Not only do we see the landscape undergoing the dramatic change from summer into autumn, but energetically, the veil thins and we begin the turn inward. It is a time when our...
