Posts by Elizabeth Rainey

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…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I have recently recommitted to my Soul work. This is work that is exploring my own and the worlds’ depths and connection with each other and how I can invite that into each moment and relationship. One of the things that I am reminded of over and over again is that…

Photo by Annie Spratt Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – In April, I wrote about time and in May I didn’t write anything. So here I am in June, having been through a crazy time warp (or as my beloved says, through the wood chipper) and attempting to express my experience in a way that might also…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – This post/newsletter is a little late. I try to send it out on the New Moon but I am a few days behind. Too many things on my to do list along with prioritizing planting my garden beds and taking walks has meant this writing is not on my preferred timeline.…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – It’s okay to cry and not know the reason. It’s okay to have a day where you feel low energy or down even if you slept well the night before. It’s okay to feel angry and want to throw a whole set of china (or maybe two) at a wall without…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – “While the outside world rushes to move on, the experience of the pandemic has yet to fully leave my body. Parts of my body, my mind, my spirit are still trapped in the limbo of pandemic despair, pandemic depression, pandemic numbness, pandemic survival. I will NOT be pressured to move at…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Calm and steady are often the goal of our spiritual practices and our therapeutic healing. Many folks come to my practice with the desire have more ease and less upheaval in their lives. This is a worthy pursuit especially if our life is primarily a series of being battered about with…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I typically post this blog and send out the email around the new moon. I do this partly to have a regular marker to help me stay consistent but mostly it’s because the new moon is the dark moon, a time of gestation and the beginning of the moon cycle. I…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Blessings to you. Really, I send you blessings and think of you often. I wonder how you are faring as we traverse these challenging times? Most times have a challenge or edge to them, do they not? Are you able to taste moments of sweetness when they show up? ‘Cause they…

Artwork by Jose Ramirez Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Last month I spoke about rituals. And here we are just emerging from the traditional days of honoring the change of the season (Samhain which marks the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice) and those that have gone before us (All Hallows Eve, All Saints…