From Pepper Tree Retreat

My friends, I am lucky enough to have spent another 36 hours here in Ojai –writing. I feel a rather profound internal shift occurring that doesn’t yet have many words. I know how important it is for me to have this time of silence and Self. I’m going to make a commitment to have this time at least once every 6 weeks. Everyone will benefit — my children, my husband, myself.

I

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Playing Dead

I play dead like the best of dogs. But I don’t do it for a treat. In fact, it’s quite a miserable reaction to certain stresses in my life.

Here are a few concrete examples:

If Andrew is driving and I’m sure we are going to crash (which is every 10 minutes even though Andrew is an excellent driver), I close my eyes and stop breathing.

If I am feeling something that I

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Hammock Monday

~A new commitment to meet myself and you in the hammock once a week~

It’s dark. I have finally made my way to the hammock. It’s also pleasantly chilly.  We just ate dinner and the kitchen and the dining room table are a mess, but I’ve decided to make my hammock date the priority. Andrew is putting Dylan to sleep. And I’ll clean up later.

As I sit in the hammock tonight,

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Hammock Mondays

~A new commitment to meet myself and you in the hammock once a week~

Recently I wrote about purchasing a hammock and how glorious it felt to let my whole body fall into the hold of woven rope and gravity.  Over the past two weeks, we’ve had many a family gathering in the sweetness of hammock and we’ve all spent WAY more time outdoors together. (Not

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