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PART TWO - Self Care The Feminine Energy of Smudging and Self-Care Explanation of self-care: Self-care is the practice of taking care of one's own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It is a way of honouring and nourishing oneself, and...
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PART ONE - The Explanation of Smudging Smudging is a practice that has been used for centuries by Indigenous communities around the world as a way to cleanse negative energy from spaces and individuals. It involves burning sacred herbs, such...
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I had to wait until the energies of March had passed before I could sit down and write my thoughts about March. As someone who only knows a little bit about astrology, I knew something big was coming up when...
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I’m in the middle of ‘having a moment’. I have become conscious of these quicker than I have even been able to before. Sometimes its hard to see what you’re in when you’re in it. Before I was even conscious of these events, I thought I was depressed for months or years on end. Glennon Doyle calls it the messy middle. We have a tendency to go dormant when we’re struggling. We want to get through the hard stuff on our own and show up eventually with our ‘ta-da’ moment. Here I am, all ‘better’ after whatever it is we’ve wrestled with. So, this is me in the middle of a ‘bad*’ week/month.
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I’m not ready to wish away 2022 or welcome in 2023 just yet. I’m still in the middle space. 2022 was the first actual, conscious year of my life. A life of my own design for the first time in 43 years.
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