by nelle | Feb 10, 2021 | Healing, Self-Compassion, Time to Dream
Years ago, my dear friend Charlotte brought over a bottle of wine. The label read, “The Owl and the Dust Devil.” For some reason I’ve kept this empty bottle for years on a shelf in my bar at home, wondering about the label and appreciating the memory...
by nelle | Dec 18, 2020 | Addiction, Buddhist Teaching, Healing, Self-Compassion
The Hungry Ghost begins to lose its power when met with compassion. – Tara Brach I have seen the Hungry Ghost. It has knocked on my door, disheveled and distant, speaking in unintelligible tongues. I have felt the Hungry Ghost lurking in my heart, crouching there...
by nelle | Nov 22, 2020 | Healing, Self-Compassion, The Unkown
We are all experiencing so many different emotions from moment to moment as we continue on this marathon amid the pandemic. For me days are filled with deep gratitude for what is going right and for every comfort that is still in my life. Other days feel more bereft...
by nelle | Oct 30, 2020 | Healing, The Unkown, Time to Dream
Have you ever arrived at a time or point in your life where you were acutely aware of growth out of hardship, accomplishments that came from walking relentlessly up hill, that specific feeling that you were just about to be okay? For me the feeling is that of being in...
by nelle | Jul 10, 2020 | Cancer, Healing, Self-Compassion, The Unkown
I came across an old journal the other day, looking for the spell I remember casting over ten years ago to find my perfect mate. Wouldn’t it be fun to write a new one and dig out the old one and see how they compare fifteen plus years apart? What I couldn’t find is...
by nelle | Jun 1, 2020 | Healing
When I moved home amid my ending marriage I was in a state of denial, confusion, and chaos. I moved back into the home we had bought together – married each other in – the home we lived in with his parents, his siblings, my sisters and family, so many...
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