Posts by Elizabeth Rainey

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – Last weekend I attended a service in honor of the life and death of a partner of a friend and colleague. I had met this man twice and each time was touched by his smile and presence but knew him mostly through my friend. She calls him her ‘sweetheart’ and his…

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – I am dancing with the potent reminder of how precious this life of embodiment is. How magnificent, heartbreaking, beautiful and fragile we are…as humans, as a web of life. Death will do that, if we let it. It will gather us up and remind us to remember and be present for…

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – Beauty is necessary for the Soul to be able to navigate life and its burdens. The Soul needs pleasure for its ongoing capacity to hold grief and challenge. Gratitude gives us the capacity to be with grief. Beauty and Burden are sisters and they are deeply entwined and need each other.…

Image by Tuan Pham Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – In my somatic therapy work a big part of the process is cultivating noticing…of our body, our behavior, our unconscious ways of reacting. This is the same practice that we engage in meditation…becoming aware of the habits of body and mind and broadening the scope of awareness…

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – For many peoples in the Northern Hemisphere, this time has marked the beginning of the year. The time when the inkling of birth from death is felt and the felt sense of possibility and a new cycle is in the air. This is the time of the Celtic feast of Imbolc,…

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – I am so tired of the drive to be perfect. Where the hell did that come from anyway? Of course, it’s tiring, because it is unachievable and keeps us locked into a never ending cycle of busyness and grasping. It also keeps us second guessing ourselves and believing that who we…

Hello Beautiful SoulBodies  – This is the time where we, in the Northern Hemisphere, are invited into the dark and all it offers….rest, quiet, slowing down, germination. Yet, our western society demands more light, more parties, more outward movement. I simply am not interested. You? What is so threatening about slowing down and entering the…

Hello Beautiful Souls  – I’ve said it before and I will say it again, a necessary aspect of our showing up for life is slowing down. This requires us to feel and there is A LOT to feel right now. In these troubling and heartbreaking times of such extreme loss and cruelty across the planet…

Photo by Brad Meese Hello Beautiful Relatives  – This past Thursday, October 12, was my 54th birthday. Lately, I have been contemplating my ancestry. Not just the blood lines of those who gave me DNA and life but also those who have nourished me through milk lines and story lines. This can be a powerful…

Hello Fellow Humans  – Grief seems to be a constant companion in these days of burning and confusion. We are living with new and unfamiliar ways of moving through the world…much of my summer and fall is given to tracking AQI numbers and wind direction and then feeling the sadness of not being able to…