🌑 Sleep & Emotional Resilience
Poor sleep and turbulent emotions can feed one another in a loop, each amplifying the other. Yet when we meet our feelings with awareness, acceptance, and flexibility, sleep can sometimes…
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🌕 An Update on the Season Ahead
This August I was confronted with the promise I made during Imbolc: commitment to family. I have written before about generational trauma, about how it can silence and isolate us,…
🌕 Circadian Clock: Light and the Seasons
Long before humans created clocks, calendars, and schedules, our bodies were already keeping time. Earlier this year, while exploring Imbolc and the return of light, I briefly introduced the idea…
🌑 The Psychology of Creating New Habits
We can genuinely want to change and still repeat old patterns. A simple example: you intend to sleep earlier, but at 22:30 the phone is begging for your attention, the…
🌓 Litha: Feast of Light and Courage to Bloom
There is something expansive at the centre of Litha. Not expansive in the sense of overwhelming intensity, but in the way the world feels fully open. Bees move through wildflowers,…
🌕 Patriarchy and the Psychology of Harm
Revisiting The Lucifer Effect Through a Feminist Lens Twenty years, three months, three weeks and three days before I was born, Philip Zimbardo conducted the now infamous Stanford Prison Experiment.…
🌕 Beltane: The Feast of Blooming & Belonging
As nature reaches its lush, blossoming fullness, so too does the human spirit begin to open outward. There is a noticeable shift in energy, lighter, warmer, more playful. Around Beltane,…
🌒 Ostara: The Season of Soft Blooming
As far as seasons go, Ostara marks the true beginning of spring. Day and night finally stand in balance. Light and dark meet as equals, no longer frozen in stillness,…
🌑 The Language of Plants
There’s a reason we reach for green when we need to breathe again. There’s a subtle enchantment in tending plants: soil between your fingers, the soft rustle of leaves, the…
🌗 My Philosophical Fire
This is a post about the Fire of Bloom At my core, my life force is oriented toward meaning, growth, and truth seeking. I need the why behind things. I…