“We’ll have a warm Halloween.” HA! Ahahahaaaha! Bwahahahaaa! We throw a driveway party every year (the MOST fun now that we have a big crowd of middle-schoolers – angst, yes, but still with a good, clean sense of fun and puppy-dog exuberance), and my costumes always revolve around an: “I am warm enough” theme (it’s…
Author: jenny
Emotions and Personal Evolution
Transforming Fear I recently had a real shift with fear. I woke up angry two nights in a row. Just outraged. Things from my present melting into things from my past. I was so pissed. I think smoke was coming out of my nostrils. Good thing no one was around. Growing up, the climate in…
Catchphrase: Intermittent Fasting
Did I miss the train on this? Fasting? Intermittently? My experience with fasting thus far has been “fasting by accident”: I get up, am not hungry yet, get sucked into the day and suddenly it’s 2 PM and I want to murder kittens. Intermittent fasting was the “thing” of the moment, maybe from 2018-2020. And…
Surviving Parenthood
Parents, I Salute You Happy Mother’s Day! I have spent the weekend intermittently crying over my mother, lost so many years ago, feeling like a crap mother myself, and thinking of a friend keeping vigil over her own mother who is gravely ill. Today, I was awoken by a screaming small person who did NOT…
Safe, Effective Aromatherapy
Fresh baked bread, lily of the valley, homemade spaghetti sauce bubbling away on a slow simmer. Warm, melty chocolate chip cookies (I’m drooling). Frankincense, patchouli, lavender, ylang ylang. Your grandma. Smells are powerful. They can jettison us back to the past – to home, dad, a special trip taken. Scents can calm us down, rev…
‘Tis Vata Season
Thank God for old friends at this time of year. They are THERE for the mid-morning-drive-up-toddler-dump and the long, loud sob sesh. First, they nod (in unison), trying not to look alarmed as you mutter/scream incoherently. Then, they let you play with their dogs. Finally, a ping-pong match and Talking Heads. Tornado, dispersed. It’s vata…
Kundalini Yoga is Magic
Twelve years ago, I randomly ordered a Kundalini Yoga DVD while browsing on Amazon. I liked the picture on the front – the instructor was beaming, looking genuinely relaxed and happy. I started using the DVD, and was quickly dug out of a hole of sleep-deprived despair and post-partum depression. It was a helping hand,…
Did Someone Say Something About Food?
In an early post, I mentioned that food is huge in Ayurveda. Since then, I have ignored it, because I eat like the cornfed, beer and brats Midwesterner that I am. I haven’t made kitchari in ages. We stock up on red meat every time we go to Costco. There is a bowl, nay, a…
The Law of Attraction & Meditation = Mighty Changes.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could say to the Universe: “Farm boy, fetch me that pitcher” (or that dream job or that soul mate), and the Universe would reply “As you wish” and hand it to us on a silver platter? What if that could actually happen? There’s this whole Law of Attraction thing…
Ayurved-ish Foot Care
Summer (it’s still summer, I insist) is a good time to discuss feet, because they are out and about! It’s all sandals and bare feet around here. Maybe you resent your feet because they are too big, too small, too sweaty or too stinky. Maybe your toes are weird. It is astonishing how much some…