Licia’s Blog
Putting Things in Motion
Working with the Solstice Squeeze I’m finding the collective energy climate as well as the Holidaze to be lending itself to folks spacing out. I’m accustomed to seeing some zombie-like behavior in my fellow humans, but it seems that in the last couple of weeks,...
Fortune Cookie Wisdom
After a somewhat challenging Thanksgiving, my son and I went out for Vietnamese, one of our favorites. Comfort food, for sure. There, a fortune cookie imparted wisdom that I desperately needed after the holiday mayhem. Who knew that a fortune cookie could frame...
Sexuality and the Sacred Feminine
Welcome to Week Three of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood Lucy H. Pearce. Today's topic is Creative Inheritance. Do read to the end of this post for a full list...
9 Days in the Desert-the Need for Retreat
I just returned last week from a 9 day spiritual retreat and vision quest in New Mexico, where my family spent a considerable portion of our 7-year odyssey ; time away is time well spent if you are interested in having perspective on your life. It takes being outside...
Teaching my children to be happy
I am learning how much I want my children to be happy. Of course, many of us want children to be happy; we want to protect their innocence and joy, as we wish someone had done for us. I think the instinct to be protective of children is a good one…until we start...
A Question about Personal Responsibility
What do you do when someone wants more from you than you can genuinely, conscientiously give? Sometimes people project their happiness onto others and expect them to fulfill those fantasies, at the risk of destroying the relationship. The burden of someone else's...
Is there such a thing as a mistake?
Embodied Spirituality 3...A genuine exploration on my part of whether there is such a thing as a mistake (I find that there IS), and how that fits into the spiritual scheme of things. I have found in my life that the defining moment is whether I KNEW BETTER and did...
The Children are the Way Showers
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house. ~Phoebe Cary I have known for a long time that humanity...
Embodied Spirituality 2- Follow the Magic!
"Embodied Spirituality 2-Follow the Magic"-the next in this video series, guest starring my very wise 14-year-old son, Aidan! We talk about our experiences as a family in practicing everyday Embodied Spirituality, and how to feel the flow of Spirit (and know when...
Embrace the Shadow
What an extraordinary week it has been. As I've moved through my days this week, I have been guided to look with open eyes towards aspects of myself that I have not wanted to believe. My eyes were shielded by my reluctance to own parts of myself that did not fit what...