Last weekend, I taught a little workshop on nourishing yourself with essential oils and with the idea of essence. Essence is a big idea to me both in the sense of what is the essence of something and the sense of a substance itself that nourishes. A few really interesting things emerged from the discussion. […]
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Making Meaning IS Making Medicine!
This week and last, I have been greatly inspired by The Feedback Fallacy, an article published this Spring in the Harvard Business Review and shared with me by a friend who does lots of coaching. Coaching and mentoring don’t seem exactly the same to me, but I love learning about how adults learn and thinking […]
Full of Medicine
If we fully express who we are, we are said to be “full of power” and expressing our medicine. Angeles Arrien, The Four-Fold Way Medicine these days can be a very confusing situation. What exactly is medicine? Is it Western medicine i.e. the science of health? Is it Eastern medicine, i.e. the art of […]
Tasting Sweet
I’ve never been much of a sweet person. I’ve always craved a bitter taste, a salty taste, a spicy taste, even a sour taste over sweet, preferring BBQ to cake, bok choy with cilantro lime butter to ice cream. Lately, however, I am noticing an increased desire for sweet and I wonder about that. In […]
Pink Provocation
This spring the pinks have been making me crazy! Everywhere I look I see pink and just a few days ago I looked down to see some neon pink toes to add to the insanity. What is it about pink? Somehow it suggests a new born babe, a fresh start, an exciting moment. And you […]
On A Mission
Discovering A Mission I have been reluctant, some might even say phobic, about professing to a mission in my life and work. It scares me. I have commitment issues. I like change. I like flexibility. I like spontaneity. How do these things fit with a mission? Recently, one morning, I sat down and wrote: I […]
