Category: Serene Living

Empaths possess a unique gift for saving someone through their profound sensitivity, navigating a world filled with emotional currents and challenges. All it takes is once, and you’re hooked. It’s another hour before dawn and you wake with the strangest, awfullest feeling that something is wrong with someone you love. You feel their fear, their…

Dammit! A month in, and I’ve already failed. A long-lost friend of mine used to tell me that the Universe has a way of ensuring that you’ve made a particular change in your life that you want to make. She used to say you can go days, weeks, months, even years on a new path,…

Almost 3000 miles I’ve pounded out with my own two feet. That’s what it took to get to the destination of forgiveness. You’ve heard that nonsense about forgiveness, haven’t you? If you’ve ever been hurt or angry or hurt and angry or brought to your knees, then someone somewhere has certainly lectured you on forgiveness…and…

Every year for almost a decade now, I do a burning bowl ritual to set my intentions for the New Year. Instead of doing these as resolutions on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, I perform this little ritual at the Winter Solstice with a non-denominational spiritual group I’ve hosted since early 2008. As…

A month ago…. Before dawn, on Thanksgiving morning, I woke in a cold sweat. For the past several nights, my dreams have been populated with visits from a former boyfriend, as well as other people in my past whom I have loved with much less madness. These dreams seem to be all sometime in the…

Continued from a previous post Electromagnetic Pulsing My most serious and, by far, most expensive foray into hacking my sleep has been a small box with a magnet attached called the EarthPulse Sleep-on-Demand unit. Although there’s a new version coming out, I bought the existing version from a dealer on eBay for $500 almost five…

Using electronics to go to sleep and wake up My old way–at least several years ago old–of going to sleep and staying asleep would have been to pop a pill. Most commonly, something non-prescription from the drug store or even grocery store. As I become more health conscious, I really hate the idea of popping…

The sun wasn’t even up yet—though the deepening pink on the tall white clouds announced its arrival—and my Fitbit had just buzzed my 10,000th step. I’d already said “Good Morning” to the usual dozen or so joggers and runners I see on my morning miles when I stopped at a little bridge to take in…

Continued from previous post The sun wasn’t even up yet—though the deepening pink on the tall white clouds announced its arrival—and my Fitbit had just buzzed my 10,000th step. I’d already said “Good Morning” to the usual dozen or so joggers and runners I see on my morning miles when I stopped at a little…