Host of the Dandelion Doorways Podcast: focusing on mindful living, exploring practices such as meditation and Reiki, and how simple shifts in perspective can allow us to experience a deeper connection and more blissful life.
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Create Your Own Magic: The Power of Intention, Creativity & Following Your Passion
Sometimes the most meaningful things in life aren’t part of a plan. They’re born from curiosity, intention, and a willingness to follow what brings us joy. A reflection on creativity, personal growth, and the unexpected paths that unfold when we put our hearts into what we love.
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Art as Meditation: Finding Stillness Through Creativity
I’ve been drawing more lately, while my creative writing—whether crafting new meditations or writing essays—has taken a back seat. This shift happens from time to time, usually when I’m stressed and my focus settles on one particular creative pursuit. Eventually, I get bored. I need a change, a different way to express the inexpressible. This…
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Slowing Down: Learning to Live Within My Limits
After five years of learning to slow down, I’m discovering that moving forward doesn’t have to mean pushing past my limits. Sometimes slowing down is how we make room for the life we’re already living.
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Today is Different
I woke up this morning feeling achy and stiff, with joint pain and a lot of tightness through my low back and side. I’m currently experiencing a lupus flare, so my body was feeling particularly tense and uncomfortable. I wasn’t sure if I felt like attending the Lymphatic Flow Class on Insight Timer this morning.…
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The Beauty of Broken Things
I almost stepped over it. It was just a piece of broken shell lying in the dirt, surrounded by pine needles, stones, and the debris that accumulates wherever nature is left to itself. But then I saw the color. That impossible blue against the earth. And I stopped. I wondered how many beautiful things we…
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Every Doorway is an Invitation
Miniature Oil Pastel Paintings Doorways have always symbolized something meaningful to me. Every doorway is an invitation—a threshold between what has been and what is possible. Some doors close; others open, and each offers us an opportunity to begin. This mirrors the thresholds in our lives—endings, beginnings, transitions, uncertainty—the quiet, trembling moments when the familiar…
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The Gift of Slowing Down
A Sunday Softening Practice As the years flow ever onward, I continue to seek quiet and calm—a softer pace, a slower life. The moments of stillness heal and refresh my spirit, allowing that sense of calm to flow into other areas of my life. I caution you, dear reader, though: do not believe for a…
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Pain as a Doorway: Finding Agency in Chronic Illness
Pain may not be a choice. The way I meet the world often is. The last few weeks have been marked by migraines and the familiar ache of endometriosis. Some days simply getting through work requires more effort than anyone around me realizes. The pain is real. The fatigue is real. And yet, I’ve noticed…
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Sunday Softening: The Quiet Art of Noticing
There is a quiet joy in spending time outdoors with nowhere in particular to be. When I slow down enough, I begin to notice the gentle things that are so easily overlooked—the way a breeze lifts the delicate tendrils rising from a cushion of moss, carrying tiny spores out into the world. A bee disappears…
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What Endures: What Sam Neill Helped Me Remember
I thought I was mourning an actor. Instead, I found myself remembering the child who believed dinosaurs could inspire a lifetime of questions. The passing of Sam Neill hit me harder than I expected. I’ve mourned musicians before. There’s something uniquely heartbreaking about realizing you’ll never hear a new song in their voice again. But…