Posts by Elizabeth Rainey

Hello Wild Embodied Souls of Nature – There is something emerging with this spring time in the Northern Hemisphere. As the days grow longer and warmer folks are starting to inquire about what’s next in their life? What’s been on the back burner (for the past 3 years or the past 30)? What do I…

Hello Lovelies – Well I missed my self-imposed deadline of the New Moon for this post. I simply had a very full week and didn’t try to cram it in and overwhelm my system with another demand for my energy and time. Then the weekend arrived and I chose to give myself some downtime, some…

Hello Fellow Humans – In our western society there is a deep drive to have more joy but we seem to go about this in all the wrong ways. We go after things and accolades and even certain kinds of experiences in order to ‘be happy’. But the flip side of joy is grief and…

Hello Fellow Humans – One of the pieces of wisdom I am dancing with right now is the deeper understanding that we humans actually become more human when we are in right relationship with other. Not just other humans but other beings; our more than human neighbors, our green brothers and sisters and all the…

Hello Fellow Embodied Souls – I have a delicious new morning practice. It is simple and it has profoundly changed how I emerge into the day and engage with life.  After I am dressed, I take my steaming mug of tea in my hands and I step outside. I do not put on any extra…

Hello Fellow Embodied Souls – Solstice blessings to you! Here in the northern hemisphere we are in the darkest time of the year when the earth invites us to tuck in, settle down and slow into roots and quiet and unknown possibility. At the same time it is a time of welcoming light and fresh…

Artwork: Healing Hands by Fred Hatt Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I have been contemplating the act of blessing lately. Not just the practice of counting my blessings but the practice of offering my blessings to others and to the world. Each of us can offer blessings…yes, you read that right…each of us has has the…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I have been having several powerful conversations lately with different folks about the way many of us tend to override our body’s wisdom. The habits of pushing through our exhaustion, always working the extreme edge of our body’s capacity for either strength or openness, assuming we ‘should’ be able to do…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Here, in the northern hemisphere, we just crossed the equinox into the time of autumn. The time of slowly lengthening nights, cooling days and slanted sun. A time of transition and change, a time of turning in and tending. What is shifting for you right now? What changes internal or external…

Artwork by Sajjad Saju Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – One of the primary ways we learn to be with the challenging emotions and sensations is to learn how to witness them and not be so taken over by them. Cultivating our witness or what I like to call my Wise Woman or what some different traditions…