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Today the nurse strike found me, text messages asking me if I want to go to NY. Waving an insane amount of money per week across my eyes definitely got my attention. It’s moments like this that bring up a lot of emotion. Patients in hospitals needing care and nurses strike leaving them even more vulnerable than what brought them into the hospital. Followed by additional feelings that bring up our worth, our oath, our compassion and empathy. Intersected with anger and frustrat

Yin. Yang.  Darkness. Light. Winter. Summer. Loss. Love Severance. Birth. I woke up Wednesday morning, the day after my birthday, feeling amazing. Light, happy and unburdened. The sun shone brightly, the air felt clearer. As I reflected on this, I felt the clear difference in how I felt the day before. Was it just the weather that brought a clearing from the previous day’s gloominess and heaviness? Was it my mood after enduring and surviving another birthday (grief day) or co

And I'll cry if I want to. This year, I am choosing to celebrate... or so I thought... This year I'm being very intentional on how I spend my "birth"day. Forty-eight years and it has been a roller coaster of birthdays. Being a child I remember not liking my birthday being in January. Living in New York, it was cold and made it hard to have a pool party. As I got older I started to choose to have my birthday "party" in the summer to make it fun at our home pool. As a young adu

A New Year, An Inner Turning: Setting Intentions from Within As a new year unfolds, there’s often a collective pressure to fix , improve , or be better . Resolutions tend to arrive with rigidity and expectation, asking us to leap forward before we’ve taken time to listen inward. This year, what if we chose a softer, more sustainable beginning? Instead of resolutions, consider setting intentions . Intentions invite us to turn inward ... to notice how we feel, what we need, and

Winter arrives not as a season of lack, but as an invitation. Just days ago, we crossed the Winter Solstice , the darkest day of the year and the quiet turning point where the light begins its slow return. While the world may still feel dim and hushed, something important has already shifted. Beneath the surface, a gentle reawakening is underway. In nature, winter is not a time of forcing growth. It is a season of rest, conservation, and deep nourishment . Trees stand bare no