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It is my birthday month

It is my birthday month

September is my birthday month, and as a Virgo, that has meant that I have a lot of personality traits I have learned to love. My perfectionist – That helps me set and meet high standards, but won’t let me do something if I'm not sure I can do it just right. My...

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Archetypes through a Shadow Work lens

Archetypes through a Shadow Work lens

Archetype comes from the Greek verb archein ("to begin" or "to rule") and the noun typos ("type"). According to Merriam Webster, archetypes are “the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.” When Jung discusses...

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God Jul

God Jul

Let me share a Christmas memory with you. I spent many Christmas on my grandparent’s farm, and in Sweden, there is/was a belief that little elf’s, or tomtar, are watching over the farm, the people and especially the animals. And if you treated them well, they will...

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The Wisdom that lives in our Shadows

The Wisdom that lives in our Shadows

I want to explore the wisdom that lives in our shadows. But first, let's define “shadow.” The swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung coined the term ”The Shadow” in the 1940s, and today we think of it as the unconscious reservoir for the things we have decided, for any number...

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Women who Rest with the Wolves

Women who Rest with the Wolves

I am about to embark on my next teaching of Limitless Self: Yoga Nidra, which I have taught many times before.  Fall/Winter is an especially wonderful time to do it as the days grow shorter and the nights, longer.  Our bodies natural rhythms are in tune with the...

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Breaking the Inner Glass Ceiling

Breaking the Inner Glass Ceiling

Glass Ceiling - Def. an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities. Reading this definition made me remember all of the times I was professionally passed over because of my sex or my age. “An...

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‘I don’t know’ as a portal to wisdom

‘I don’t know’ as a portal to wisdom

Most of us have a tremendous amount of fear around saying ‘I don’t know.’ There has probably been more than one time in your life when you’ve felt shame for not knowing the answer to something. As a young woman I had a fear of raising my hand in class even if I was...

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Face Your Dragon: Energy

Face Your Dragon: Energy

Rest & Renewal Spring always sparks joy for me and this spring I am especially excited about a training I offer which really speaks to energy as the gold we’ve all been in search of. I recently came to the end of my Limitless Self yoga nidra program which focuses...

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Face Your Dragon: Audacity

Face Your Dragon: Audacity

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Henry David Thoreau   Audacity is a word I never heard used much aside from Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American...

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Face Your Dragon: Agency

Face Your Dragon: Agency

I just finished teaching, alongside David Kaar, our first 7-week Face Your Dragon program online. We have taught this class in person but this was our first time teaching it since the pandemic began. I was hesitant and nervous not knowing how it would translate in an...

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Daring to Rest…and Rise

Daring to Rest…and Rise

In June, I posted a blog entitled, “A Well-Rested Woman” about my Limitless Self ~ Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra program. It was a wonderful journey with these women. Their shares affirmed what I already knew about this program -- it gives permission to rest your body and...

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The Secret of Manifestation

The Secret of Manifestation

  “What you put your attention on grows.”~ Deepak Chopra   We are manifesting throughout our entire lives though we often overlook the small manifestations that we create daily. For example, an individual manifestation might be doing poorly on an exam...

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Optimism and Gratitude

Optimism and Gratitude

I’ve been thinking a lot about Thanksgiving this year.  It’s normally such a festive time, gathering my friends and family around me for wonderful food and a feeling of appreciation and gratitude.  The holiday season, in general, gives me hope and optimism.  This...

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It’s worth (not)doing

It’s worth (not)doing

It seems to be an American value, or at least a western one, that we always must be accomplishing something in order to be worthy. Someone once told me I had a Ph.D. in GSD (getting s%&$ done). I had a belief that if I stopped “doing” I wouldn’t be valued. This...

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