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Spiritual Self-Care in the New Year

Over the past two months I have covered all the various types of self-care, but one. And, that’s spiritual self-care. I guess I was saving it for last, because there are so many myths about the spirit and how one can perform self-care. In this week’s post, I hope to shed some light on spiritual self-care, identify a few practices …

Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year

Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year

After the Great Recession, workers around the world were shocked into a hyper state of productivity. While wage rates have stayed mostly the same for the past 20 years, each professional has had to prove their worthiness in the current economy with greater output and working overtime. The national stress levels have been impacted by the economic crisis since 2008 …

New Year, New Decade, New You!

New Year, New Decade, New You!

As 2019 rolls into 2020, this marks not only a new year but also a new decade. We mark new decades based on our birth years but also communely when a new decade happens. And, new decades only happen about eight or nine times in our lifetimes, so they’re a little more important than 11:59 PM ticking over to 12:00 …

Abundance Mindset

Abundance Mindset

A cornucopia of food is on the horizon! Family and friends come together around the Thanksgiving holiday for a celebration of being thankful. And, as the autumn holiday brings about food aplenty, it’s a good chance to step back and do some reflection on the abundance mindset. Once you understand what it is, then you start to experience the many …

Learn 5 Ways to Connect with Your Loved Ones in Spirit

The majority of wisdom teachings and religions believe that we are all energy and that our energy moves to another realm when we die. The teachings suggest that we have the opportunity to connect with our loved ones in spirit. For each of these wisdom traditions, a very auspicious time of year is as summer concludes and the harvest autumn …

Reiki in Hospice Care

Reiki in Hospice Care, Working Together

The end of our physical life is always a difficult subject, because it means loss on a fundamental level. For the individual, for friends, for their lovers and families, there is finality to this stage of life. Thankfully, there is hospice care. And, increasingly, reiki in hospice care is becoming more common. According to the nonprofit headquartered right here in …

The World Turned Upside Down

In Lin-Mauel Miranda’s amazing Hamilton musical, he creatively takes our imagination back to a time of great turmoil as we collectively strived for our American independence.  It is far from easy as Miranda’s song “The World Turned Upside Down” alludes to the battles for our freedom.  Yet, once won, we begin the great American experiment of a new vision for a society, …