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Healing the Mother Wound inside us All

Elephant Journal

For all the beautiful healing women, still searching, still trying to quiet that voice….

The mother wound is very much alive.

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Posted On: January 10, 2018

Taming the Monkey Mind

Elephant Journal, Musings, Sivana East, Wellness Universe

The Monkey mind is a real and often frustrating phenomenon. These 5 steps will help you tame the monkey – forever!

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Posted On: January 10, 2018

How Sensitive People can Survive in a Cold, Hard Corporate World

Elephant Journal, Musings

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Posted On: October 12, 2017

This Is for the Quiet Women

Elephant Journal, Musings


This is for the quiet women.

The women whose hearts are as large as any other, yet their soft voices fall on deaf ears tuned in only to noise.

The women who inwardly scream with passion for all they hold dear, yet outwardly present themselves more discreetly than others.

The women who are overlooked and ignored by those who may speak louder, though not necessarily with more substance.

This is for us.

~

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https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/09/this-is-for-the-quiet-women/

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Posted On: September 7, 2017

Three Steps to Keep Moving Forward when Panic Creeps in

Elephant Journal


I’m keenly aware of the cycles of life these days.
It wasn’t always this way. I spent much of my young adult life blissfully unaware, just riding the wind wherever it took me.

Yet this kind of freedom is deceiving. It feels free—until it comes crashing down without warning. And then there is no plan for dealing with it effectively. The result is usually to avoid or ignore, to move forward on the path that seems to come with the least amount of pain.

Like when my mother was diagnosed with cancer for a second time—a liver metastasis from her colon cancer a few years earlier. I was getting ready to graduate college and start graduate school. My adult life was ready to begin, and yet I found myself moving back home. I didn’t have a plan for that.

And then two years later, when the cancer came back again. And two years after that, when it took over her body. At 27 and just four years into a young marriage, there was no plan for dealing with that either.

The ups and downs of this haphazard path take a toll over time. For me, it resulted in a debilitating case of adrenal fatigue, which forced me to slow to a crawl.

I’ve never gotten fully back up to speed. I doubt I ever will. That’s how incapacitating a lack of awareness can be.

In that forced slowing down, however, I realized I had to find a different way, because what I had been doing clearly wasn’t working. So I spent years studying and practicing holistic nutrition, mindfulness, and self-healing. I attended the “Woman Within” weekend training and joined a local empowerment circle. I started a regularly writing practice.

Slowly, a shift began to happen. New insights began to emerge. A plan began to form.

KEEP READING: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/03/three-steps-to-keep-moving-forward-when-panic-creeps-in/

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Posted On: March 16, 2017

Warriors of Peace – A New Era of Love

Awakenings, Elephant Journal, Musings, Poetic Healing

Friends & peace warriors, I invite you to read my new essay and poem published on Elephant Journal!

“Rather, I mean tapping into that inner space inside where love always lives, no matter what happens on the outside. That place in us that exists even when we feel angry, fearful, sad, hopeless or hateful. That place gives me hope. The place that reminds me that I’m not alone. And it lights the path, not just for me, but for each one of us—the warriors of peace.”

http://www.elephantjournal.com/…/warriors-of-peace-a-new-e…/

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Posted On: August 2, 2016

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