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Darkness and Light: Poetry Composed in Community by 2020 “Between the Holidays” Retreatants
Artwork credit: Debra Sowald “We need to be in dark soil to grow. There is no spotlight in the womb. Darkness is incubation.” Not separateDarkness and light is whole in its contrast but also one in its wholeness of the same…Darkness and light are a continuumAll is required for life and growthTransformation from one to the otherBoth AndThe swirling, the deepening, the openingreconciled withinTh [...]
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How Mindfulness Stopped Me From Over-thinking My Life
by Nikolina Eisinger It’s getting harder and harder to pump the breaks of our busy lives. Silence is hard to find these days. We are constantly over-stimulated and/or distracted. In almost any given second, someone or something requires our attention. We are connected with our families, friends, bosses and the rest of the world 24/7 […]
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Give The Gift Of Compassion This Holiday Season With Co-Mindfulness
by Doro Bush Koch & Tricia Reilly Koch This year many of us won’t be traveling home for the holidays. We won’t be rushing off to parties to celebrate the passing of another year with our friends. We’ll find new pandemic-safe ways to get together with our loved ones – over Zoom, bundled up around […]
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Ripple Effect: Mindfulness and COVID-19
by Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head.” ~ Anthony De Mello Covid-19. That name alone sends shivers down the spine. Stories of suffering, death, tragedy. A global pandemic the likes we have never seen before, at least in our lifetimes. Bungled government responses. Politicalization […]
