health
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A Simple Check-In
Not everything needs to be a lesson.Not every moment needs to be alchemized into meaning. Today feels like a pause—not the kind that’s empty, but the kind that breathes. I’m noticing where I’m tired without being broken.Where I’m tender without… Continue reading
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🌑 Mythic Mondays: Hekate at the Crossroads — When Choice Becomes Consecration
There are moments when life does not ask us what we want.It simply places us at a crossroads and waits to see whether we will recognize it as sacred. Tonight, the myth that steps forward is Hekate—not as spectacle, not… 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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✨ 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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The Cozy Cauldron Cup: A Healthy Hot Chocolate That Loves You Back
Seasonal Nourishment for Soft Mornings & Slow Evenings There’s something alchemical about wrapping your hands around a warm mug — especially when that mug holds a potion that tastes decadent and secretly supports your body. Today’s offering is my favorite… Continue reading
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✨ Soft-Bound Saturdays — Rest as a Sacred Rhythm
Some Saturdays arrive like a quiet threshold, the kind you don’t notice until you’ve crossed it — warm mug in hand, the body exhaling a little deeper, the spirit leaning into its own edges with curiosity rather than urgency. This… Continue reading
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The Seven Tears of the Soul
Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading
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Food Synergy for Body & Soul 🌙🌿
One of the most beautiful things about the body is how interconnected its systems truly are. When we talk about strengthening neuromuscular connections — the way nerves and muscles speak to each other — we’re also supporting the heart, digestion,… Continue reading
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🌿 The Garden Within: Tending the Gut as Sacred Ground
There are seasons when our bodies whisper… and then there are times they thunder.Lately, my own belly temple has been calling for mending — not through urgency, but through devotion. The gut is not merely an organ system; it is… Continue reading
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