Tag: california
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Free Webinar: Mindful Parenting – Starting with You
Monday, June 22 8-9pm PDT Parenting in the best of times can be hard – parenting during a pandemic is intense! “Putting your oxygen mask on first” is not a cliche, it’s a necessity to create a healthier you which directly results in a healthier child and family. Join Krista Kotz, PhD, MPH and Roxanna…
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What’s Working (when everything seems broken)
Greetings from my apartment. Tomorrow will begin week 5 of sheltering in place. By myself. I would never, ever have thought I could be alone for 4 weeks without going insane. What I “counted on” in life has either completely ended or radically changed. Between the news of the world, concerns for my family and…
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Welcome Home
All my life I’ve been traveling. I was born in Maine and at one and a half, moved to Beirut, Lebanon. Another country, another culture, another climate. At four, in the middle of winter, my mother and I left the Meditteranean and moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, newly divorced in the late 60’s. At eight,…
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Road School 2017
This Spring, my son announced that he had two life goals: quitting school and living in a van. His love of learning has been with him from infancy, but ever since 6th grade, he’s slowly and progressively been losing interest in school. Over the past four years, I’ve watched the light go out of his…
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Chakra Series – 2nd Chakra
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran The second chakra is about pleasure, sensuality, touch, sexuality, creativity, fire, passion, life. Its essence is water. When open, there is an openeess to intimacy, an ability to express oneself freely,…