Embracing Change + Transition

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Leveling up

When our kids were little, my sister had to be away for a few days and left her toddler son with me. He is around the same age as my...

Brasserie du Piton

I have been traveling through France, making my way to the tiny town of Sancerre in the Loire Valley. Here, we will stay a few weeks so...

It's not the destination, it's the journey

My formal educational training started with a BA in French with a K-12 certification for teaching French. Early in my teaching career, my...

How Do Our Endings Allow Us To Begin Anew?

This is the week of the spring equinox and with it comes a time of rebirth and renewal. Endings that left us in the void during the...

Working Through The Growing Pains of Expansion

If you have seen the movie The Miracle Worker about Anne Sullivan’s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller to communicate, you...

Year of Abundance

Happy New Year! As we move into 2024, (2+0+2+4=8) we move into an eight vibration. According to astrologer Jacquelyn Tierney, this is the...

Are You Meeting or Exceeding Expectations?

So, was Christmas everything you imagined it to be? Did you enjoy the gatherings and smatterings of family events? Perhaps you dreaded...

How to Find Your Happy Place

I was speaking with a woman yesterday who mentioned that when she saw the people that had retired from her workplace, their faces seemed...

Ashokan Farewell

We all have music that inspires us or gives us a time and place to reconcile our feelings around our pain. I am usually transported back...

Time to change your frequency?

When I tune into the spirit world, I do not sense every spirit that is in the spirit world. On an average day I carry a certain vibe that...

Need Guidance on the Go?

If you just had an experience that left you feeling disempowered, we will figure out together how you can understand the energy behind...

The Year of Seven

Happy New Year! Are you ready for 2023? It holds a 7 vibration as 2+0+2+3=7. Check out Denise Linn’s book Sacred Space if you’re...

Finding Your Fortune

In tarot, the Wheel of Fortune card is a major arcana card. There are twenty-two of these big wigs in a tarot deck. What makes them...

What's In A Name

Have you ever heard the song A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash? It’s hilarious! This young man makes it his life’s mission to find his...

Transcendent Wisdom: Hang Loose

When I was a little girl my sisters and I would sometimes descend upon my mother needing her to solve all of our problems at once. She...

Coeur-Age

“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” - Anaïs Nin In energy work we speak about ascension. Ascension in this sense is...

The North Wind is Calling

I remember standing outside in my yard of my dream home, a house I thought I would never sell, feeling my spirit disconnect from the...

Finding Light in Adversity

“Partner with adversity. The light of our highest potential is hunting us down to liberate us from our hiding spot.”-Matt Kahn Adversity...

Letting Go Of Our Family Pets

Her name is Fleur. No one is immune from death. Death comes in many forms, and in many stages of life. It is part of the cycle of life....

To Compartmentalize- or Not To Compartmentalize?

When I was younger, I remember my mother saying that sometimes she and my father could be having a fight that felt so big to her right...

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