How to Live Comfortably with Your Period
After writing about being comfortable with our bodies and about the miracle of our conception, I don’t think I can ignore the big issue of our monthly period. I have yet to meet a woman who enjoys having a period. I’m not one either, but I have developed an...
An Ode to Our Miraculous Bodies
One of the most fascinating thing about women’s bodies, I think, is the fact that we’re born with all the egg cells that we will ever have. It’s estimated that the number is somewhere around one million to two million. Just imagine a tiny baby arriving on this earth...
Gender Equality & Neutrality
Last week, I touched just a little bit on gender equality and neutrality in my post about the collective consciousness. In it, I speculated about a future in which everyone chose to be gender neutral. It was an example that I came up with at the spar of the...
Shift in the Collective Consciousness
Do you still listen to the radio? I almost never do, but for some reason, I tuned in yesterday morning. And I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. They were talking about death! It was not the usual depressing news about someone shooting another. It was a meaningful discussion...
Wisdom Hidden in Japanese Words with 気 Ki
Since I’ve been doing so many journaling prompts, let’s take a break and talk about reiki 霊気. Two Chinese characters, 霊 (rei) or spirit, and 気 (ki) or universal energy, make up the word reiki. In this context, 気 is the Japanese equivalent of Chi or Qi in Chinese...
When Being a Victim Creates More Victims
Tell me if you recognize this situation. Someone in your life does something that makes you feel hurt, so you tell that person how you feel. All you want is an apology, but what you get instead is an excuse, maybe even an accusation that it was really your...
Gratitude Journal
Since we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday here in the United States, I think it’s a perfect time to take a deeper look into keeping a gratitude journal. I hope you got a chance to get together with someone you care about yesterday, and that you got to appreciate what you...
Road to Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is a must in regaining control over your life from your survival instinct, or your ego. But it doesn’t come at a snap of a finger. I struggled with this for years! Deep down, I didn’t think I deserved self-acceptance. I would talk about the need for self-acceptance...
Don’t Underestimate Your Survival Instinct
***NOTE*** I believe our survival instinct and what people call “ego” are one and the same. I’m choosing to use the phrase “survival instinct” because people have such a negative connotation of the word “ego”. I didn’t want the repulsion of the word to influence your understanding of my...
Write Down Your Emotions
If you’ve never journaled before, the place to start is writing down every emotion you notice within yourself. Most of us have emotions that we’ve tucked away, too afraid to look at them. It might be because we feel guilty about harboring these emotions. We might believe we don’t...