Browsing Category : Healing

Let it Go? Not Quite Yet…


This post originally appeared on Here in Maine, the tour buses packed with leaf peepers have left the roadways, and our fall foliage has gone from bright to brown. In mindfulness circles, nature offers a mirror for different seasons of personal development and, like the late-autumn leaves, this one’s all about letting go. Frustrated with a controlling coworker and wishing…

Exposing the Good-Natured Grope: It’s Time to Put the Jest Defense to Rest


It’s an exciting time for women’s voices. Long-silenced stories of sexual violation are rising up out of hiding and into the public discourse. Fear of retaliation has become strength in numbers, as powerful perpetrators like Harvey Weinstein are brought to their knees, along with the system that enabled unchecked assault. The secret shame of so many has become a source…

On Chocolate Mousse and Chapter Two


Did you know that Monday was National Chocolate Mousse Day? Neither did I, until the woman ahead of me in the grocery checkout line explained that’s why she was buying her kids the towering brown mass of mousse with smaller swirly dollops blooming from the top. “I promised my kids I’d bring home chocolate mousse for dessert,” she told the…