The One Self-Care Practice That Makes All The Difference
Love (red outside violet inside) by Robert Indiana | New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Garden | Photo by Rocky Jaeger | Hello Wonder Friends! “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” - Melody Beattie The one...
Take Charge to Recharge
Hello Wonder Friends! In one of our recent workshops, someone asked, "Do you really do these self-care practices you teach?" We answered truthfully, saying, "We really try." As Yoda said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Perhaps we should have answered, "We do a...
Forest Bathing For Your Health
Hello Wonder Friends! Happy First Days of Summer. As the sun has been out here in Portland, Oregon the past few weeks, we’ve been enjoying some beautiful walks and hikes under the trees. (We came upon a gnome in a tree on one of our recent jaunts - see below.) We...
Slow and Steady Wins The Race
Hello Wonder Friends! In the last six weeks, we harnessed the wisdom of the turtle as we honored health, resilience, groundedness, and a slow and steady pace. We needed to schedule in our self-care as we traveled to more than ten different cities this month to teach...
Work-Life Balance… does it exist? Some tools and tips to help
Hello Wonder Friends! I talk a lot about self-care and work/life balance in my Healing the Healer trainings. For this blog, I asked my wonderful husband and training partner, Rocky, to share his perspective on this topic. Take it away Rocky. (And thanks!)We all want...
Top Topics For 2019 and Survey Results
Hello Wonder Friends! As we step fully into this New Year we feel so incredibly grateful to you and this community. Last month we sent out a survey in our newsletter to learn how we can better support our Healing the Healer community. We gathered so much...
Hello Again Wonder Friends!
Hello Wonder-Friends: Perhaps you’ve been wondering where I’ve been? It’s been a while and it feels so wonderful to be writing you on the weekend Wonder Woman is officially opening. I started this Wonder Blog expressing my love for all things Wonder Woman and the love...
Three Magical Things We Learned Teaching Healing The Healer & Self-Care This Year
Over the past year, I've have had the honor of meeting and teaching almost 300 incredible human services and healing arts professionals throughout California. I've been awed by their dedication to helping children and families and making a difference in the world. ...
Fireside Chat! Beverly Kyer
Hello and welcome to Fireside Chats with extraordinary people doing amazing things. At the West Coast Child Welfare Trainers Conference I attended this past week, I had the pleasure of meeting many wonderful trainers, including Beverly Kyer, a dynamic and talented...
Return of The Gemmuddles & Other Magical Creatures
The Art-A-Day May challenge to support the Mind, Body, Spirit and Heart this past month rekindled my connection to gemmuddles --my imaginary (or not!), magical friends from my childhood. When I was two, I would climb into my parents’ bed and animatedly talk about our...
