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Embracing the Magic of Hummingbird Medicine

Discover the transformative power of hummingbird medicine, an ancient wisdom that encourages us to find the beauty and lessons in every life experience. Embrace true leadership by widening your perspective and building anew, while learning to connect with a more inspiring and elevated way of being. Join us as we delve into the captivating world of hummingbirds and uncover the secrets to a more fulfilling and heart-centered life.

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BONDING

We stopped speaking to the rivers and the trees. We lost our dialogue with Mother Nature, and her protective embrace. Nature is speaking to us all the time.

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VELVETEEN RABBIT LIVES

It is the story of how something becomes real. When you love something so very much, you make it real.

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CHOICES

Can we, as a human family, lean deeper and use our inner telescopes to brutally and honestly investigate how we make choices? Do our choices create sustainability in our lives, the lives of others, and our planet?

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HOW DO WE FORGIVE OR MOVE TOWARD FORGIVENESS?

I spent too much energy holding onto resentment, my inner grudge, which created its own mess. I spun out a million and one stories on why a person should apologize and why I shouldn’t have to forgive them.

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YOGA

The exquisite fire where transmutation occurs over and over again and the heat sloughs off any unnecessary bits and pieces and parts of the story that I don’t need. It is not burning up, it is burning off…

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BEAR

It shrieked in the night

It wasn’t a cry 

It was Bear, a deep wail 

In the place where seeds grow

Nails pierced my inner landscape

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POEM FOR TODAY

You move into my space, my stillness

Our love story is found right HERE

Our birthplace

Let me wander in

The bhakti body and heart

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NOTES ON LOVE

Rather than being pestered or irritated by her repetition, I allowed myself to hear and feel her and place each “I love you” declaration in my heart.

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DEATH: A SOURCE OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION

When a person experiences a death of a loved one, death can be a place of deep and profound connection to others, or disconnection. In my experience, few understood how to “be” with me in the midst of my loss.

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AMBIGUOUS GRIEF

These fragile grief-filled moments of memory take my breath away. The particular actions like calling my dad after my travels halted with his passing. They remained stationary, frozen in time. I call this ambiguous grief.

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THE LIFE OF DEATH

I could only feel and it felt like I was burning from the inside. As if someone started a fire inside my chest. Waves after Waves. I felt I was going to die as well. I wondered if this was a reaction or if this was my heart, actually giving out.

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GRACIE: CLOWNING FROM THE INSIDE

I learned that having high stakes and risks meant that each moment is the only potential moment. That each moment is the present moment and it is all you have, it’s all any of us have. It means participating in the fullness and richness of each moment. Showing up in one’s vulnerability in the present moment is living at its loudest.

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