Category: Health
Posts on health that meet the whole person — body, mind, emotional life, and the small disciplines that keep them in conversation with each other. Lived experience over prescriptive advice.
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Reason # 2987 Why I’m No Longer Enamored with My Day Job
Grrrrr. As I said, I’m not loving my job this week. I missed some meetings almost a month ago. The week Daddy died. While I was at his funeral. I’ve worked with these people for a long, long time. I’ve rarely missed their meetings, with the exception of one where I was at a conference…
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A New Phase
A new phase started today, according to my guides. For months, it’s been about short, quick, new initiations and self-mastery. Figuring it all out—what I want to do, how I want to do it, how to make things happen, how to be content with all that I am. This next phase will take me through…
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How to Pee
I’m not enjoying work this week. I occasionally have to work with an Alpha Female with whom I’ve often clashed. I don’t like her. That’s okay, though, because she doesn’t like me either. We have our own mutual dis-admiration society. I still remember being excited about meeting her for the first time as my new …
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A Narrow Escape
I’ve had a narrow escape. This time, I’m not taking the blame. Someone who stepped in to help me is. One of the projects I’ve been working on in my mundane life (as opposed to the more magickal efforts that don’t yet pay the bills) has been riddled with problems since Day One. I explained …
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I Just Wanna Cuddle, Snuggle, and Sleep
I’m running a fever tonight and suddenly feeling like I’ve been ambushed and it’s barely dark. I hate being sick. It’s like my body is betraying me. I feel useless and helpless and unproductive. If I want to lie in bed, then I want to do it because that’s where I want to be,…
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Meditative Work: Dream Boy’s Weekly Visit
He prefers Saturday mornings, when I’m meditating. This week, lighter, more social, learning something new. And the old gatekeeper is back — the woman who used to keep us separated. Why now?
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Sharing Visual Gifts
I went back and tried to re-create the orby thing on in a photo, but couldn’t. I took dozens of pics from the same spot, same angle, same lighting, same everything. Nothing. Visible only in this one photo, which was the first I took. I also, thinking maybe it was humidity, took several pics outside…
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It’s 11:00 — Do You Know Where Your Florida Is?
Sometimes I really enjoy it when people tell me I’m wrong. They’re so insistent…they leave me laughing hysterically. Some people refer to it as “Lower Alabama.” Some travel maps in the past have forgotten to include anything but the peninsula of Florida as the state. In the last presidential election, CNN and the major news …
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Exception to the Rule
I was in the Orlando-Daytona area recently on business and ran into an old friend who was going through a divorce. I had called before I arrived and asked if she wanted to get together for dinner and “catch-up.” Any time we’re going to be within an hour’s drive of each other, we try to…
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Punching Through: Stressed, Strained, Yet Strong
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. It’s hard to remember the last time I had this sense of forward motion. I feel like I’ve been pinned down for an ice age, crushed within a frozen planet, then dug my way out, shoveling debris and ice blocks out of my path…
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Breaking In Another Magickal Necklace
I’m breaking in a new magickal necklace. If it doesn’t break me in first! I’ve never cared much for diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, pearls. No, give me amethyst or jade or turquoise or any of hundreds of other gemstones that call to me. For years, I’ve worn my jewelry and worn it with magickal …
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Be Patient or You’re Going to Hell
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. I’ve just hired someone to tell me what to do. Oops, no, that would be a spouse. Let me clarify. I’ve just hired a coach. I’ve been an advocate of coaches for years and have done a little life-coaching for others to some degree,…
