mental-health
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🎆 New Year’s Eve: Between the Last Spark and the First Breath
There is something tender about New Year’s Eve.Not loud—despite the fireworks.Not frantic—despite the countdowns. It’s a liminal night. A pause between exhale and inhale.The year behind us still humming in our bones, the year ahead not yet asking anything of… Continue reading
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🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility
Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… Continue reading
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We Survived the Year. That Counts as a Miracle.
🕯️ Sacred Snark Sunday: End of the Year Edition If you are reading this, congratulations.You made it. Not thriving, not ascending, not manifesting your highest timeline with perfect posture — just here. Breathing. Still listening. Still feeling. Still questioning. And… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors: Hannah Arendt — Thinking as a Moral Act 🕯️🧠
Some figures in history don’t descend into the depths of the psyche through visions or dreams — they arrive there through thinking. Not abstract thinking. Not cleverness. But the kind of thinking that refuses numbness, refuses slogans, and refuses the… Continue reading
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🎄 Thirsty for Truth Thursday
Christmas Day: Making Room for What’s Real There’s something about Christmas that slows time—if only for a moment. Even in the busyness, even in the noise, there’s often a pause. A breath. A remembering. We return, year after year, to… Continue reading
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✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years ✨
(Listening more closely this Christmas) I was listening to old Christmas songs today—the oldies, the ones that have lived in the background of a thousand Decembers—and something stopped me cold. A single line. From O Little Town of Bethlehem: “The… Continue reading
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✨🕯️Sacred Counterparts: Marguerite Porete & Jakob Böhme 🔥🌑
There are mystics who speak about God.And then there are mystics who speak from inside the rupture where language fails. Marguerite Porete and Jakob Böhme never met, never read one another, and never belonged to the same spiritual moment —… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays: Odin: The Masculine Who Kneels to Know 🐦⬛🗝️
When we speak of the masculine in myth, we’re often handed a narrow script: conquest, dominance, certainty, the hero who never doubts. But Odin—the All-Father, the Wanderer, the one-eyed god of wisdom—fractures that story completely. Odin is not powerful because… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday: Your Nervous System Is Not a Moral Failure 😌🌀
Somewhere along the way, we were sold a very strange lie. That if we were really healed,really evolved,really spiritual… we would be calm at all times, grateful under pressure, and capable of “holding space” while our insides were actively on… Continue reading
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✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation
There are moments on the path when the language itself asks to be listened to more carefully.Not because the words are complicated—but because they are alive. Two such words that often get braided together in spiritual spaces are transcendence and… Continue reading
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