by jlouden | Jun 27, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Photo By Lillian Louden-Mosio When you don’t want to belong, it might be because you aren’t belonging to yourself first. Allow me to tell you a story. Lately, I’ve been choosing to not spend much time online. Sometimes that wonderful soup of tweets,...
by jlouden | Jun 20, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Offer yourself the sacrament of new beginning. Put any story that you are the one and only human exception to ::we all make mistakes, we all get hurt, we all need help:: on the fire of liberation. Light the pyre. (You are the exception to many rules but not this one.)...
by jlouden | Jun 14, 2012 | Favorites
How I envision as my personal poppy field Remember Dorothy in the poppy field in The Wizard of Oz? She is so close to Oz that she can see it – she is so close to getting what she wants – and suddenly, she just has to. take. a. nap. In the movie, the magic...
by jlouden | Jun 9, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Photo by Carla Blazek, owner of Zenamoon. This post is dedicated to my daughter who graduates from high school today. To your freedom Lilly baby! There is a Sufi teaching story about a caged bird. The bird was well looked after by her owner, fed and talked to, and her...
by jlouden | Jun 2, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I love that the world is full of stories of “I fell down, and down, and down, and then I got up and look at what is possible for you!” The famous video of Arthur healing himself through yoga is a heart soaring example. I think of that video, that man, all...