Licia’s Blog
…and the Balanced Defender
Continuing to go down the rabbit hole of exploring my inner masculine and inner feminine dynamics in the name of integration and balance...if you notice smoke coming out of your ears, may I suggest a cool ginger bath? 🙂 Once I realized the imbalanced state of the...
The Defender
I’m excitedly writing a book about the inner masculine/feminine energy dynamics; I'm exploring the qualities of masculine and feminine energy, what it looks like when they are imbalanced and how to bring them into balance. I have much personal experience as I have...
Spring into Fall Cleaning
Originally published in October 2007 under the title "Fall Cleaning 101" in "811", a San Luis Valley newsweekly, in my weekly column "Wise Words from the Valley Shamama" In my own life, I feel the impulse to go in so many directions; my sons attend school and play...
Autumn-The Energy of Letting Go
Article originally published on www.liciaberry.com September 22, 2004 We have reached the season of spectacular change! The hottest days are past and each is shorter than the last. Groves on mountains take on brilliant colors. The state fair is over and school is...
A Wish for My Children
A Wish for My Children On this doorstep I stand year after year And watch you leaving and think: May you not skin your knees. May you not catch your fingers in car doors May your hearts not break. May tide and weather wait for your coming and may you grow strong to...
A Certain Kind of Madness
Identifying Oneself as an Artist, Hearty Traveler of the Inner Landscape Going into the arts felt like the path to my heart, or rather from my heart. When I chose my major of art/education with a psychology slant, I figured I was going into something a little...
The Weight of the Hate
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different...
The In Between
I love naps. Not only is it a sweet way to gain a little energy in the middle of the day, but I find naps to be a special, secret meeting with my inner psychic landscape where I get SO much information. My best surfing of the inner waves is in the place I call the...
I Woke Myself Up Laughing
8-2-04 journal entry Padre Island National Seashore, while on our 2-year family odyssey, www.berrytrip.us (Originally published in 2006 on www.liciaberry.com "All is One, I is One") I am starting to get it. In the last few days, maybe even over the whole time we...
Autumn-The Energy of Letting Go
By Licia Berry, originally published in 2007 on www.liciaberry.com We have reached the season of spectacular change! The hottest days are past and each is shorter than the last. Groves on mountains take on brilliant colors. The state fair is over and school is in...