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Tag Archives: heart
What I learnt at 50
This past week marked the end of my fiftieth year on this earth. A journey that has taken me from a small village in Germany to South Africa, Namibia, South Korea, Indonesia, the US, South Africa again, Australia and back … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, feminine, fifty, friendships, heart, life, love, the divine
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2014 The Engaging with a Wholeheart Project: May
Cultivating Gratitude and Joy – Letting go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark “Wanting a soul life without the dark, ………is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.” © David Whyte from The Heart … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 Engaging with Wholeheart Project
Tagged authenticity, compassion, courage, difficult, faith, fear, heart, intimacy, journey, joy, life, longing, love, trust, vulnerability
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A fool’s journey
By David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day … Continue reading
Posted in Love & loss, grief & joy
Tagged attention, community, control, courage, heart, journey, joy, letting go, life, loss, love, presence, transitions
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From me to you: Day9: Caregiving
Originally posted on justanotherspoonie:
As a parent with health conditions or parent to a child(ren) with health conditions, what do you hope you’re doing right? As I am neither a parent with health conditions, or one who has a child…
Posted in Caring for the Carers
Tagged care, compassion, courage, difficult, heart, journey, kindness, life, love, pain
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Getting out of the way
It’s taken me a while to get back to writing a new post, even as my mind and heart is preoccupied, my commitment to this blog writing demands that I not abandon it, to just write, no matter how imperfect. … Continue reading
Posted in Love & loss, grief & joy
Tagged accepting, allow life to find you, being lost, control, dealing with loss, fear, heart, Jon Kabat-Zinn, loss, pain, stop sit breathe be, trust, work
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Paying attention to the heart
“I also have one of those organs!” she said, hand over her heart, clasping with all her strength, “A real heart!” Eyes wide with wonder and surprise. I had been leading a short session last week with some care workers. … Continue reading
Posted in Caring for the Carers
Tagged attention, courage, difficult, health care workers, heart, journey, respect, work
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