Each month we put together a playlist and Pinterest board which matches our feelings and thoughts around that month’s theme. We find that it’s a fun and interactive way to move our words and ideas from brain to body and heart. Matching the look and feel of the images and music to our monthly Vivid […]
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Introducing Vivid Reads
Something we hear all the time from women is how rare it is to see ourselves accurately depicted in word and film. Maybe this is because juicy, powerful, and sovereign (or fill in your favorite menopausal experience) can look and feel so different to each one of us. Maybe this is another reflection of how […]
Sensory Weekend: Take Heart
A Vivid Menopause February Playlist: If your heart is beating, alive, and your own, then I’m positive that it’s also complex and one of a kind. In other words, it craves love and understanding and it does so in its own unique way. In lieu of a February playlist full of cookie-cutter radio romance, here […]
Sensory Weekend: Deeply Rooted
A brand new year, fresh and clean and largely blank usually inspires in me a rush of happiness, the excitement of all unbroken things. I am prone to wake on the first day of a brand new year with relief at whatever happened in December being done. I am used to feeling rather like Anne […]
Sensory Weekend: Comfort and JOY
It’s the weekend before Christmas! How is this possible? Are you needing some joy for your last minute tasks and travels? We have the perfect gift for you: a brand new playlist guaranteed to lift your mood and add a festive background note to parties, errands, baking, whatever you have planned. How about some pretty […]
Sensory Weekend: Belonging
For your cozy weekend, which hopefully includes lots of space for tea and blankets, perhaps a conversation with someone who helps you remember your value, maybe a leisurely dinner or brunch, we’ve collected some images of beauty and rest on this specially curated Pinterest board. Do you notice the simplicity in these pictures? I didn’t […]
The Beautiful Brave
This week’s Pinterest board is full of women doing remarkable things considering their gender or the time in history or their culture, age, background, color, religion, or any number of things! Take a look at their faces and stories and be inspired. Aren’t they amazing? What about you? Some of us grow into our bravery […]
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 […]
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