spirituality - Aging Abundantly

Getting to Know Our Body – Diet & the Healing Process

I learned so much about diet and the healing process wile working with Crystal (a highly trained Naturopath and RN) We have completed our work together for now, but I will touch base with her in August. Here’s a few things I’ve learned: 1. Our dietary habits impact on all…

A Reason to Journey On

Since last writing, I have been on a journey, both an exterior one and an interior one. We are all, everyday, journeying somewhere, whether we leave our home or not. There is so very much to learn about the nature of life, the gift of living, and our reason for…

A Deep Down Hunger

The face of hunger is different for each person. There are sadly still many on our planet who feel actual hunger-for-food hunger pangs. For most of us, however, our hunger comes from something deep inside of us. For some of us, our hunger resembles a longing for acceptance, or love,…

We All Need Support

It took far longer than I would like it to have taken, for me to understand what real “support” looks like. I’m a rebellious sort, by nature or nurture it’s hard to say, and I have never liked people telling me what to do, think, or say. It’s one of the primary…

The Body, Mind, Spirit Connection – Day #7

Our modern culture has, in my opinion, a tendency to pull things apart into quantifiable pieces. Our society has become so complex and diverse that our drive to understand and manage it, has led to habits of thought that compartmentalize. We judge from a distance what we do not know or…

Coming Full Circle – Day #4

My family moved from a quaint little town not far from Erie, PA, to a small paper mill town on the Androscoggin River in Maine. My father, an electrical engineer, was perhaps, taking a step up the corporate ladder. Just shy of my third birthday, my mother, my two older sisters…