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The Queen of My Self

By Suzanne Zoglio, Ph.D.  In the early stages of life we are often focused on pleasing others…parents, teachers, bosses, and spouses. In an effort to get our needs met, we learn to play by other people’s rules. But as we mature, we become more competent, independent, and able to meet our own needs. We are…

For Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman By Karen Ethelsdattir   Where has all the darkness gone? What Maestro Dylan Thomas called “the close & holy dark?” The midnight hour & the hours before & after? Where can we go to see a starry sky, the pearls of the Milky Way, the glittering constellations set off…

By Madisyn Taylor As we cultivate our life, our beauty becomes as much about what we are creating and doing as it is about our appearance. We tend to associate youth with beauty, but the truth is that beauty transcends every age. Just as a deciduous tree is stunning in all its stages—from its full…

Sacred Seclusion enables us to know, own, and honor ourselves as unique, individual entities. To admit our abilities and limitations, our talents and truculence on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes, and love ourselves with compassion and no judgement attached. A practice of solitude and separation — be it occasional, frequent, or constant —…

By Janine Canan Maybe you think you are determined by your genes, or your karma. Or you think that childhood experiences are more important. Maybe you believe it’s really a matter of the food you eat. Or subtle things like magnetic waves from phones and ghosts and planets. Or you sense how others’ thoughts, words…

by Patricia As children of life, we are equipped by life with the pro-social trait of compassion, because it is essential to the survival of our species. Life gives us what we need to sustain Life, in, through, and around us. We see this trait in the red fire ant colonies. When a flood hits…

We can’t cage life. We cannot freeze the present happy day under glass. We can’t impale it like a butterfly in a frame. No, life moves inexorably on, whether we go with it or not. It rocks and lurches and limps along. It reels from high to low at a pace often too wild to…

A five step plan to live a life with no regrets By Lucy Thackray for Daily Mail Australia Work on your relationships Family and friends are the most important contributor to a happy old age, but are you really investing in, and building that support framework now? Like the elastic in your knickers, so don’t…

A five step plan to live a life with no regrets By Lucy Thackray for Daily Mail Australia Midlife thriver, Jane Mathews, author of ‘Midlife Manifesto – a tool-kit to plan the rest of your life’ offers some practical steps to help navigate and transform the turbulent, exciting years that are a person’s midlife into…

This comes from a sister Queen, Jo Coffey. It is in response to an article that I wrote for this column. It was really a lift to read your piece about the Dark Time. I have been feeling out of sorts, but it helps just to realize that other people are in the same situation,…
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