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Returning home from 5 days spent on Bowen Island I walk into a new world. The woods beyond my back yard have opened themselves, leaves fallen, bare branches revealing the once mysterious landscape that lies beneath the green and gold canopy I had left. I feel the fierce winds that pruned the trees and flipped […]

How do you open space for your connection with yourself? I breathe. I listen to my breath. I allow my breath to guide me. I follow. I value myself and I value others. I explore new techniques and organically arising processes for listening to and connecting with my internal experience. I love others… through loving […]

Reflection Nebulas in Orion “Dust clouds lit by the reflecting light of bright embedded stars.” Oh how beauty inspires. This invites my memory to a recent prayer: Heart protector, please be my mirror. Reflect for me the brilliance that is my heart and soul alive. And be a transparently strong, illuminescent conduit so that the […]

Sunset over RocksOriginally uploaded by evobassman Another prayer said at my grandfather’s funeral Birth is a beginningAnd death a destination.And life is a journey.From childhood to maturityAnd youth to age;From innocence to awarenessAnd ignorance to knowing;From foolishness to discretionAnd then, perhaps, to wisdom;From weakness to strengthOr strength to weakness –And, often, back again;From health to […]

Part of my self-care practice is noticing my own patterns for being and doing. Here’s a recent conversation with Meredith expanding on some of our current observations: Meredith says, This work just keeps taking me on the most amazing journey. I never really feel like I know exactly what I am doing, but rather that […]

Hello! I’ve started a new blog, Educating for Wholeness. My intention is to use this blog as a way for me to keep track of the various activites, thoughts, stories, classes, groups, articles, etc. that I use in my work as a school counselor. I’m hoping the labels might help me organize… we’ll see. I […]

In a conversation at Heartmind Community, David D, a nurse consultant specializing in suicide and self harm, shares about his practice for processing the extreme situations that he engages at work: My wife and I both often come home straight from some hospital trauma, have done throughout the more than two decades we’ve had kids. […]