Compassion
Watering the Seeds Of Soul
Dear friend, During these hard times, I have big hope that we can stay in touch with the softness in the heart of our hearts. In this moment, I’m taking a spacious inhale and a long unhurried exhale. I’m softening my belly, unclenching my jaw, widening my gaze, lengthening my spine, and settling more fully…
Read MoreIs Your Real Work Loving the World?
A note from Erin, April 15 2023 Why do praise and gratitude matter? Both of these practices are a kind of soul activism and one I believe we and the world need. Gratitude is a way of seeing. I think of putting on Mary-Oliver-perspectacles as one doorway to this way of seeing – seeing with…
Read MoreImaginal Cell Goo & Courageous Love
A Note from Erin: For the past many months, I’ve been in what’s not exactly a midlife crisis, but a midlife deep cocooning. It’s invited a dissolution of much of who I’ve known myself to be. I’m practicing trusting this transformation into imaginal cell goo and the Soul’s knowing of what is next, while understanding it…
Read MoreAn Important & Underrated Spiritual Practice
A note from Erin: Hello, beautiful human. Some thoughts on the underrated and oh so important spiritual practice of having a sense of humor: About yourself About the mess you’re in About the ways you get stuck Again And again And the ways you get in your own way And make things harder than they need…
Read MoreA Fierce Commitment To Love
A note from Erin: These days can have us managing one global crisis after another, with skies so smoky due to wildfires both far and near that I haven’t gone on a walk in weeks, and of course personal life… A gorgeous new nephew just born! Our son starting 5th grade at home because…
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