We want to bring a bit of richness and pleasure to your midweek, every week. Wednesday can be dull. But here, we want Wednesday to be a little dip into sensuality, a little treat for each of your five (make that six) senses. Today we are thinking about simple celebrations. Life is short and here […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Dancing In the Dark
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. ~Pina Bausch Change is a terrifying word. Especially arbitrary change—change we feel we have no control over. It’s no wonder that the word menopause is not nearly as scary for most of us as the term The Change. “You’re going through The Change.” “She’s experiencing The Change.” It positively […]
Ordinary Celebrations and Tiny Revolutions
In my mailbox this week was a beautiful note. Handmade, with watercolors on simple paper, the cursive words were an invitation to come and celebrate the full moon with dinner. “We have realized,” it read, “that our life needs more celebrations.” It went on to say that their plans were simple, that children were welcome. […]
Awaken the Senses – Moon
At midlife we often find ourselves fighting the inclination to become dull and stiff. We may go through a phase during which we feel our senses are not as acute, our pleasures less intense, our mind and body less flexible than they were in younger years. Many of us have felt these things. Yet this […]
Listening to Our Bodies
When this year began I made one giant promise. Not the sort written at midnight on New Year’s Eve, fueled by holiday indulgences and anxiety at the year ahead and not the kind written in shame-scrawl on the back of an envelope which also happened to contain notes from a recent doctor’s visit. No, this […]
Daily Menopause Wisdom: An Autonomous Woman
ARE YOU AN AUTONOMOUS WOMAN? What does it mean to be an autonomous woman? Sometimes we think of autonomy as complete independence – – the idea that we don’t need or depend on anyone else in our lives. This take on autonomy has always seemed a bit cold to me – not to mention unattainable. […]
Full Moon Wisdom
How are you feeling? We are just coming out of the intense energies of yesterday’s Capricorn Full Moon… have you noticed, as we enter the Wisdom Years, that although our bodies no longer cycle so obviously with the moon, that we are still profoundly tuned to and aligned with the lunar cycles? If you are […]
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