Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo
In 2003, I experienced the third recurrence of breast cancer and was now stage 4. By that point we were running through chemo drugs and radiation limits and this would be the fifth chemo to be tried. Each one had its own unpleasant side affect, the most common being hair loss. This next one was …
November is a time when we are heading into the holidays…a time when we are expected to give thanks and be grateful for what we have…a time we find ourselves in the midst of our families…with our myriad memories and traditions. For many this can be a difficult thing to do, an overwhelming expectation, especially …
There is a bit of a glorious teaching running just under the surface of most fairy tales, isn’t there? …a deeper story, easily missed, that wants to help connect us to soul. Through the different characters in fairy tales we are shown how we all have challenges along the way, have shadow parts of ourselves …
One of the incredible awarenesses that emerge when we begin to work with our dreams is how little access many of us have had to our feelings. Up until then we think we know our feelings. What most of us have are thoughts, opinions, judgments and even emotional reactions, that is a true feeling covered …
I spend a lot of time inside people’s dreams. It’s what I imagine spelunking might be like, with the cave being our psyche and me and the dreamer being two explorers going in with curiosity, openness…and a bit of fear. We take a lantern and leave the familiar world of our outer life on the …
Joe and I know to our bones how blessed our lives are and for decades on most gift giving occasions we make donations to those groups that care for children, animals, and health care. We do leave a space during our birthdays for some special gift to mark the day. I usually know several months …