Licia’s Blog
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...
the Balance
So much work I have done to awaken the Sacred Feminine within me. So much attention have I given to embodying Her, to BEING Her in this world that has been so out of kilter for thousands of years. And that has all been right because it has brought me home to a large...
Surrender
“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual”. - Octavio Paz I’ve been known as an independent and willful person since I was very young; one of the most pervasive images I have been given of my own toddlerhood...
Coming Through
Who knows what is going on in the larger collective? Lots of folks claim to, but I tend to think that we each have a slice of the pie, rather than the whole pie....a peek at the global story through our own filters rather than a completely objective viewpoint. My...
Rebirthing
The word "rebirthing" has been in my psyche quite a bit of late; perhaps in part due to the immanence of spring (around the corner, I hope!) Perhaps in part due to the "collective sloughing off" that's going on for so many people, in our country and beyond. And...