Licia’s Blog
The Oldest Definition of Health
Pete and I are holding a playshop in a couple of weeks entitled “Spiritual Partnership”; we are really excited about it, in a very big picture, step-on-the-moving-sidewalk-straight-to-your-destiny kind of way. When we first met almost 25 years ago, we had a sense that...
The Concept of Home
After several years of feeling homeless due to our family’s journey (which has felt distinctly like a 7 year vision quest, or odyssey) we are finally being guided to put down deeper roots and begin the process of buying a house. I’ve been thinking about “home” a lot...
Seven Years
My husband and I have both been very interested in systems; I see this in my writing, in our art work, and in the way we both think. Also in the way we raised our family. I think our interest in systems stems from feeling the difficulty in being part of fractured...
Mothering and Allowing
I was guided recently to relax into another aspect of the Sacred Feminine...Allowing. This feels akin to "going with the flow", or the term "surrender" to me. And while I totally get the concept in some areas of my life, I find it challenging sometimes to do this as...
Great Mother Says NO
The shootings in Tucson have prompted yet another level of waking up in my consciousness. I watch how others respond…the people in my circle are mortified, appalled, even speechless at the violent act as well as the plan of protesters at the funeral of 9-year-old...
Compassion in Remembering
I’m currently experiencing the release of old body memory. I’ve gone through phases of this at different times in my life since I began recovery work from childhood sexual violence at age 23. Each time this happens, I am more awestruck by the healing process and the...
Thoughts on Christmas (2009)
I have a few precious moments of serenity as the boys have run down to the neighborhood park for a football game, and my sweet husband has retired to the haven of our bed for a much needed nap. It is Christmas, again, and we were up late last night wrapping presents...
The Gift of Acknowledgement
Have you ever noticed that when you are having a hard day and you are able to tell someone about your feelings without being judged, criticized or fixed, that you realize you feel soooooo much better? This is something I have been working with these last few years. A...
Integration of the Parts
I’ve received some interesting responses to my last post, mostly in private. Seems I’ve hit a nerve in initiating a conversation about healing wounds of the heart. I sometimes think of trust as a fabric, our original design, a picture of innocence, beauty and...
Trust is Thicker than Blood
I feel guided to write about the blessings and difficulties with family. I have been out of touch with my parents, off and on, for over 20 years. There have been times of contact, almost always at my hand, in which I had high hopes that things would work out and that...