How to Listen to Your Body and Stay Hydrated
Every day we have opportunities to attend to the bodies we live in. Take a few minutes to sit still with your body. Notice your feet touching the floor, your…
Embrace Body Connection in Liminal Spaces
Liminal space is the perfect time to connect with your body. During seasons of great change, I’ve noticed that it is easy to live only in your head and not…
Liminal Spaces: Navigating Life’s Thresholds
According to betterup.com liminal spaces are like thresholds. They represent times of transition, in-between places in which we find ourselves waiting.
Simple Techniques to Stay Grounded During the Grieving Process
What grief and those who mourn are consistently teaching me is that this uprootedness can call into question things that have seemed part of our solid foundation. Relationships, church, work and even hobbies can feel as if they no longer “fit” with who we are in the present moment. It can seem as if nothing that was of interest is even remotely interesting anymore. It can be hard to stay grounded in an unsteady season of loss.
Find the Joy in Relocation Transitions
Recently I watched via social media as friends and acquaintances have made significant life transitions. Recently I watched as friends have made significant life transitions.
Why Unbeautiful Moments Shouldn’t Be Ignored
“The ability to ask beautiful questions – often in very unbeautiful moments – is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to share…
Seeding Your Future Wholeheartedness
Seeding, Digging, chopping, pulling, pushing—shovel, hoe, pitch fork, wheel barrow. Working in my garden in recent days I began to think about the how much this physical effort is a mirror for grief. Mourning our losses is physically demanding.
Transitions Toward Wholehearted Living
I came across this quote in 2021. It resonated with me then. And it continues to resonate with me now. My life, perhaps yours too, has been one long season of change and transitions since 2020. Or perhaps even before that. For me the changes began in 2017 when one of my younger sisters died unexpectedly. That year several people I loved died. I moved to a new home. I began learning how to live my own life at 56.
How Liminal Spaces Can Help You Transform Your Life and Overcome Challenges
What is a liminal space? It can be defined as a threshold, the place between one time or season and the beginning of another. A liminal space can be the physical or geographic location of a threshold. Or a liminal space can be the emotional, cognitive, psychological experience of a major or minor life change.
In physics a moment is a turning affect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.
A turning affect. So many moments in my life have had a turning affect. They have caused me to turn from the direction I thought I was following and move…