Caring for your Soul

Posted by on May 11, 2013 in Foods, Reflection, Self-Care | 0 comments “You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output – how much you produce – not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the...
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Good Nutrition

Posted by on Feb 19, 2013 in Foods, Nutrition, Self-Care | 0 comments Good nutrition isn’t just about what goes into the body. It’s also about everything that flows forth from heart and soul, and how we feed and nourish the world.” Marc David, Director, Institute of Psychology of Eating
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Inspire Health

Posted by on Feb 4, 2013 in Foods, Health and Illness, Self-Care | 0 comments Inspire Health is a nonprofit organization offering integrated care to support people with a diagnosis of cancer.  The approach is integrative and evidence based, drawing from the best practice of a number of different integrated and complementary health care practitioners. Anyone with a diagnosis of cancer can join Inspire Health. A good place to start is by attending one of our weekly...
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Compassion

Posted by on Feb 4, 2013 in Foods, Self-Care | 0 comments   This is a beautiful presentation by Joan Halifax on the topic of compassion and the true meaning of empathy. Enjoy. http://www.ted.com/talks/joan_halifax.html.
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The Guest House

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in Foods, Reflection, Self-Care | 0 comments This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the...
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Sit. Feast on Your Life

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in Foods, Reflection, Self-Care | 0 comments The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take...
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