In our modern world, exhaustion and overwhelm have become so common that they’re almost invisible – it’s as though it’s just culturally accepted that “it’s just the way it is.” We’ve learned to normalize it, to push through it, and to see rest as something that is earned. It’s as though there is some magic…
This is a multi-part blog series that focuses on rest, why it’s so important, why we’re not getting it and how we can re-frame our cultural programing and attitudes toward rest and how rest is the best thing we could do for ourselves and the world right now. Rest Is How We Return to Ourselves:…
I woke up this morning from a dream that felt like a potential future timeline. I was in a world where people were taken from their homes to work in camps to serve massive corporations. In my dream I was part of a rebellion and my life was filled with justified paranoia and fear, but…
It’s winter here in Vermont, USA. The snow began making itself ever present on these lands on Thanksgiving and since then we’ve had many days with a new white blanket laid upon us. Our sheep are in the run-in-shed for the season, content to graze on bales of hay collected on sunnier days, enjoying the…
Following on the heels of several weeks of huge emotional shifts, I find myself coming out of darkness and into the light of day. As some of you know, I have been having a significantly human experience lately, and it has involved leaning into and letting go of old emotional wounds and patterns that have…
Over the past few days I’ve been struggling with the feeling that I’m not as productive as I was before I left my career in Planning. I’ve been feeling as though I’m not getting things done. It has been unsettling and somewhat irritating. I’m in a state of disharmony and I don’t like it. And…
This morning as I sat at my desk writing in my journal, I was stuck by the image out my window. Our farm here in Vermont is up on a hill that overlooks the Village of Randolph. The sun, bright with the promise of spring lit up a dense covering of fog that enveloped the…