Listen to Krista read the post: Hello! My name is Krista and that, over there on the left, the one smiling at you kindly from her writing desk on the West Coast of Canada, is Heather, my business partner-slash-work-wife. I’m holed up right now in the office I have at...
Listen to Krista read the post... I'm not going to lie. I am nervous about you. No. More than that. I am anxious and border-line dreading you. It's not your fault, really. You just happen to be the year of another U.S. election cycle, my kid starting with a new...
Listen to Krista read the post: It’s a new calendar year. I frequently feel ambivalent about January - it often seems as though my ‘new year’ starts in September with the return of school. That being said, I do get as caught up as anyone else in the season's spirit of...
Listen to Krista read the post: It’s sunny this morning. An autumn sun - somehow mellower than how I experience it in the spring or summer — or even the winter. No doubt I’m reacting more to its reflection off yellowing leaves and browning grass, the tell-tale signs...
Listen to me read the post: I don’t even know how to start this post. I’ve been thinking about it since I started my semi-forced month of rest at the beginning of July. I knew I needed the rest. Had known it for quite a while. But my past versions of ‘rest’...
One of our guiding principles at the Centre for Holding Space comes from Christina Baldwin’s book, The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice For Times Like These. It goes: “Ask for what I need, and offer what I can.” This little truism is the foundation of our...
by Heather Plett Two weeks ago, I facilitated a retreat in Costa Rica, and our last session before wrapping up was focused on joy. We talked about how tenderness and liberation lead us toward joy and how that joy can sustain us even when pain and suffering come. Joy...
by Heather Plett Last week, I was walking a circular path through the jungle that I’ve become quite familiar with during my visits to Costa Rica. I walk it nearly every day on my friend Mary’s farm. This time, though, I was walking it with a visitor who’d never walked...
by Heather Plett Last week, while hosting our Liberation and Tenderness gathering in Costa Rica, I was asked to explain the difference between tenderness and kindness. My response was something like this: Tenderness has the added quality of vulnerability that isn’t...
by Emily Gillies When I think of peace, I think how over the years I have noticed a trend in the “meditation” and “self-help” realms where the images and the descriptions we are invited to associate with peace are focused on perfectly tranquil images, likely including...
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