The Adventures of ReadingGrrl

Category: Holidays

  • Self Care:the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness

    Self Care:the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness

    A friend recently reminded me that our thoughts often become reality so be careful about what you think and say. I think my biggest take away from that is to be kinder to myself. It’s so easy to beat yourself up over something that you think you shouldn’t be stuck in but I think for…

  • Numb: deprive of feeling or responsiveness

    Numb: deprive of feeling or responsiveness

    I’m trying to get excited for things, holidays, etc but I often find myself numb. This will be the 2nd holiday season we have had without our daughter and it’s just so hard. I keep seeing things I know she would like or thinking about trips we know she would love to be a part…

  • Celebrating Yule or the Winter Solstice

    Celebrating Yule or the Winter Solstice

    One of the longest celebrated and most well known of the sabbaths. It is a celebration of the shortest day of the year and the re-emergence of the sunny days to come. It starts December 21 and ends on January 1. It is a time of rebirth, a time to dream and a time to…

  • Overwhelm: bury or drown beneath a huge mass.

    Overwhelm: bury or drown beneath a huge mass.

    Even with the best of intentions it’s easy to become overwhelmed. My mother is back in the hospital, still in AFIB which is contributing to congestive heart failure, my contractor has the flu and has been MIA on my old house my son moved into so he is living in a construction zone. My relationship…

  • Native Heritage Day: Land Back

    Native Heritage Day: Land Back

    Now if that isn’t a hot button issue I don’t know what is. Do you know whose lands you live on? Do you know the history of where you live? Don’t you think you should? I reside in Pennsylvania on the stolen lands of the Lenape people. Does that mean I should turn over the…

  • Visualization:the formation of a mental image of something.

    Visualization:the formation of a mental image of something.

    My wise friend Joe Longo (Inspirecreatemanifest.com)told me that before the holiday season he uses visualization to think about what he would like his holidays to look like. I love this and I’m definitely going to use this practice this year. Holidays can be so stressful, with my daughter not wanting to participate if my wife…

  • Celebrating Samhain

    October 31 marks the midpoint between the September Equinox and the December Solstice. It’s when we notice the light shifting, the temperatures changing and the end of the Harvest. Samhain (pronounced Saa – wn) honors the end of the growing season, and reminds us of the fragility of life. This is the time to honor…