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Grief – Stay With It

5 December 2017 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

  Scrolling through Facebook the other day, this post of a friend caught my eye: “We can’t leap over our grief work, Nor can we skip over our despair work. We have to feel it…. Historic cultures saw grief as a time of incubation, transformation, and necessary hibernation. Yet this sacred space is the very…Continue reading Grief – Stay With It

Congestions, Delays and Detours!

7 December 2016 Nicole ConnerBooks

Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the…Continue reading Congestions, Delays and Detours!

Reflections from Shabbat: A Call to Rest

27 July 201624 July 2016 Nicole ConnerBooks

“Our relentless emphasis on success and productivity has become a form of violence. We have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between effort and rest, doing and not doing.” Wayne Muller If you happen to find yourself in Israel on a Saturday you may encounter this peculiar phenomenon when using the elevators: they…Continue reading Reflections from Shabbat: A Call to Rest

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I wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri-willam people of the Kulin nation who are the Traditional Owners of the Land on which I live. I want to pay my respect to the Elders of the Kulin Nation, both past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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