Healing

Fueling the Better Angels of Our Natures: Awe

One of the most interesting and uplifting findings around living a long, joyful, healthy life is the power of awe: putting ourselves in the presence of whatever inspires us with awe on a regular basis and then allowing ourselves to become not only curious, but overwhelmed with wonder, reverence, and admiration. The world is filled…

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Shattering and Mending

I am not a knic-knak person, but this bowl…. I loved the autumnal colors, the perfect size, the understated elegance of it so much that I hung it below the mantel in my dining room. There was nothing striking or attention grabbing about the bowl, yet somehow it brought the room to coherence. Our dining…

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Being Curious: Crosstraining for Heart and Mind, Body and Soul

An ongoing series of posts around Ways of Being that contribute to our becoming whole and healed in heart and mind, body and soul, that support wholehearted engagement with life: relationships, family, work, and world. Curiosity is a quality of mind and heart that prepares human-beings to more easefully transform themselves into their highest possible…

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Cultivating Cross-Fitness of the Heart and Soul

Being human means we are continuously faced with transitions of one sort or another: predictable and unexpected, joyful and painful, easeful and challenging. A big life question is: how can we learn to navigate through change, living lives of resilience and transformation, even transcendence, rather than of so much frustration, reactivity and stuckness? Navigational support…

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What is Wisdom Scout?

  Well, I named my business Wisdom Scout, not because I think I am wise, but because I truly enjoy exploring for wisdom. I revel in the entire process of inquiry, discovery,  investigation and experimentation,  and, finally, synthesis of wise ways of living, leading, and honoring life’ passages. I have lived my life as a…

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Healing through Ritual, Art, and Nature

Ritual, art, and nature are each a powerful and joyful way to heal the body and the soul. When you marry the three, magic happens! I had the privilege and the pleasure, along with Heidi Darr-Hope, of Healing Icons, to lead a healing ritual of co-creating this gorgeous Healing Mandala with the participants of the…

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