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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Lessons Learned From Weathering a Storm

How do we weather the storms in life? This question matters to me not only because I’ve needed to get through my personal dangerous and disorienting storms and also not only because I worry about basement flooding or losing electricity in a blizzard. This question is also about the big Read more…

By emily, 8 monthsMay 27, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Why we need sacred spaces

Are we letting our children down when their education about the climate includes no tools for climate grief? The myth of Demeter and Persephone can offer some guidance.

By emily, 1 yearOctober 28, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Happy Equinox! How to keep moving in dynamic balance all year.

Happy Equinox! I love this time of year – still warm but offering us cozy evenings. Today in particular the day and night are equal. From a qigong perspective we say yin and yang are equal to each other. While they might be perfectly balanced today on some magical yin Read more…

By emily, 1 yearSeptember 22, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Abundance and Hope

It’s certainly feeling a lot like November. After a long, gorgeous autumn the trees have been dropping their leaves and we have turned back our clocks. I know many in Minnesota are still scurrying around outside to finish preparing their yards for winter. I hope that you are also finding Read more…

By emily, 3 yearsNovember 4, 2019 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Drawing on the ancestors for meaning and purpose in the midst of climate crisis

At the Minnesota Climate Strike A few signs were along the lines of “Adults, you have failed.” I admit, the jab at adults stung. Yet my younger self secretly harbored a similar sentiment. Actually, I’ve got those youth beat.

By emily, 3 yearsSeptember 23, 2019 ago
Pan sitting by the water playing his pipes, near a nymph
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

The Wild Unbridled Voice of Nature

I really don’t like being told I should panic. I’ve spent the last twenty years learning how to calm my panic about wars and ecological catastrophy. My body isn’t built to sustain chronic panic. Does anyone make their best decisions when panicked? I confess that I feel really challenged by Read more…

By emily, 4 yearsMay 16, 2019 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

An Uncovering

Particle respirator masks were an unexpected addition to my Thanksgiving in California. Even thought we were 200 miles away from the devastating fire around Paradise the air quality was dangerously unhealthy. The media frequently referred to the California wild fires as apocalyptic. It could certainly feel like the world is Read more…

By emily, 4 yearsNovember 30, 2018 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Climate, Water, and Healing Grace

Water is making the headlines big time right now. Catastrophic storms. Severe droughts. Water is giving fearsome expression to the changes in our climate. Climate can be such a vague notion. But water is tangible. Water is my way of staying focused in the complicated work of reversing climate change Read more…

By emily, 5 yearsSeptember 11, 2017 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Messy Transitions

I know I must be in transition when I have another one of my dreams about needing to pack up everything from college and get on a flight. Usually I have only an hour before I need to leave and haven’t begun packing. These packing-up-school dreams usually stress me out Read more…

By emily, 5 yearsAugust 28, 2017 ago
Cat's Eye Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

“In-the-Bones” Understanding 2.0

You may have noticed that “in-the-bones” understanding is a favorite phrase of mine. Intellectual knowledge gradually seeps into my body. As knowledge penetrates “the bones” it becomes spiritual understanding. And like our skeleton, this spiritual understanding creates a structure that can support our whole lives. One of my healing clients Read more…

By emily, 6 years ago

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