Listening to the whispered wisdom from leaves of an unfamiliar shrub encourage me to meet myself with tenderness as I explore the next iteration of my work. (read more or listen, 6:36 minutes)
Listening to your inner wisdom
Lying on a frozen pond
Lying on a frozen pond, trusting the ice will hold me, feels akin to the decision-making that took me away from the solid ground of the familiar. (read more or listen, 7:13 minutes)
Mary Oliver at the beaver meadow
“Norma,” my inner critic, visited while I lingered at the beaver meadow. Mary Oliver’s poetry helped me reclaim my enoughness. (read more or listen, 6:05 minutes)
While looking for birch seeds
What I found while crunching through the snow searching for birch seeds. (read more or listen, 6:05 minutes)
Respecting No
How Asha’s instinctive No led me to begin to acknowledge and respect my own body’s No’s — without layers of Supposed to or Should. (read more or listen, 5:34 minutes)
Daring to rest
When my inner wisdom sagely invited herself into the conversation I was having with my inner critic, she posed a permission-giving question. (read more or listen, 3:59 minutes)
Holding on and letting go
How snow, a dog and a stick helped me hear what my heart most needed. (read more or listen, 4:08 minutes)
