Licia’s Blog
It’s All Play (?)
This morning I'm recovering from a VERY busy week and weekend; I secured an art studio, made collages and started painting again, attended a screenwriting conference, worked as a facilitator for clients, prepared for and taught a breakout session at a women's...
The Easter Elephant
My dreams in these last months have been rich with information about how I am traveling my inner landscape; but just recently, I am finding even more accurate and pointed data in the "in between" place, that middle ground between dreaming and waking. The visions are...
What Does Authentic Power Look Like?
Last night in my nightly bedtime guidance sessions, I was guided to visualize myself in right relationship with my power. This is not the first time I have explored what authentic, rightful power means. Perhaps it is the central issue I have worked around my whole...
She’s Coming
When I made this piece last month (click on the image above to see larger), I was utterly fascinated by it. Utilizing an old advertisement for "The 50 Ft. Woman" film, I cut carefully around this epic female and placed her in the remote and rocky landscape of the...
Empty the Cup
Along the lines of self love and ceasing the habit of judging ourselves, I love what Joseph Bruchac writes in his wonderful book, Our Stories Remember. He speaks of a conversation with a friend who asks him if he is carrying around any guilt. When Joe answered no, he...
How Do I Love Me? Part 3…A Self Love Ritual
Continued from "How DO I Love Me? (Let Me Count the Ways), Parts 1 and 2 https://liciaberry.com/blog/2010/03/15/how-do-i-love-me-part-2/ A Self Love Ritual If you've been looking for a way to create a new spark in your relationship with yourself, a love ritual might...
How Do I Love Me? Part 2-Romancing the Self
Continued from March 14th post https://liciaberry.com/blog/2010/03/14/how-do-i-love-me-let-me-count-the-ways/ So how do we joyfully surrender to loving ourselves unconditionally? The quickest path to self love that I know is to decide it. What I mean by that is to...
How Do I Love Me? (let me count the ways…)
originally published in January 2007 at www.liciaberry.com “I don’t like myself, I’m CRAZY about myself!” -Mae West, 1892-1980 I wonder what the world would be like if we all felt this way? If we could all say genuinely, without reservation, “I am crazy about...
Feeling the Feelings
pricking the crusty scab over the wound in my heart...letting it bleed I must…there is no alternative if I want to be an alive, pliable, feeling human being a moment’s courage to stick the needle of my consciousness in please, hold my hand, Greater Self and it’s...
The Women First
A journal entry from 10-30-09 The little boy I picked up in the labyrinth (https://liciaberry.com/blog/2009/11/10/the-boy-in-the-labyrinth/) is beginning to stir now…he has more life in him, whereas he did not seem to inhabit his body very much before. I feel he is a...