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Below you will find an archive of Becoming Lighter monthly Newsletter(s) and the Becoming Lighter weekly update(s). Browse through the issues below, or follow the link located at the bottom of this page to subscribe.
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 | The Secret behind your Overeating (Feb 2021)
An Interview for Sensitives The Secret Behind your Overeating
An Interiew for Sensitives
"You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there's something better… Truth, not force does the work of ending compulsive eating."
Geneen Roth
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 | Sensitive and Sovereign (Jan 2021)
Join me at the Women of Wisdom Conference Sensitive & Sovereign
Presenting at the Women of Wisdom Conference
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now. When you get there, you will discover yourself like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. “
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 | Ritual for Circle of Support (May 2020)
a ceremony of love Ritual for Your Circle of Support
"Watch for all the beauty reflected to and from you and sing a love song to your existence." - Rumi
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 | Circle of Support (Apr 2020)
Meditation to stockpile love Circle of Support
“We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands who come after us. We enter the little circle of each other’s arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance... to a music so subtle and vast that no one hears it except in fragments."
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 | Expand your circle (May 2020)
With Loving Kindness meditation Expanding Your Circle of Support with Loving Kindness Meditation
" A human being is part of a whole called the universe.... he experiences himself as something separated from the rest. ...Our task must be to free ourselvers from this prison of separateness by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein
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 | Savor; Taste the Sweetness of Life (Jun 2020)
Taste the sweetness of life Savor: Taste the sweetness of Life
"If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in this way, we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy. "
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 | Comfort Food for the Soul: When you Can't Social Distance from your Refrigerator (Jun 2020)
Self care when you can't social distance from your refrigerator Comfort Food for the Soul; Self care when you can't social distance from your refrigerator
I am honored to be invited to speak at The Women of Wisdom Monthly Community Connection Call Together, we will discuss the tendency to overeat to try to quell feelings of anxiety, boredom, and frustration that can arise from four months of sheltering in place. Join us to discover the possibilty of becoming |
 | Dancing with Veggies Etsy shop (Nov 2020)
Fun and Frolic for Fridge and Friends Fun and Frolic for the Fridge and Friends
Dancing with Veggies opens an Etsy shop
"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you."
Rumi
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 | Giving Health for the holidays (Dec 2020)
Gift of Women Dancing with Vegetables Giving health for the holidays
“Do you know why koala bears are so cute? Why do ospreys dance in flight?… Why flowers smell so good? Why blueberries taste so blue? Butterflies flit? Parrots talk? Whales sing? And doves coo? Because I was having fun. Which is my greatest wish for you and all that you do. You can too.”
The Universe (Mike Dooley)
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 | Inspire Joy! (Dec 2020)
Last minute gifts of Women Dancing with Vegetables Inspire Joy!
Last minute gifts of Women Dancing with Vegetables
"You can't help but smile when you see these or even laugh out loud.”
Sarah
Stocking stuffers
Have you been feeling especially heavy recently? I know I have in this gray gloom of winter. Darn, we cannot see our friends and family except on a video screen, we are afraid of going into shops to purcha |
 | Women Dancing with Vegetables is growing! (Nov 2020)
Announcing 12 new paintings Women Dancing with Vegetables is growing!
Announcing 12 new paintings
"Every artist dips her brush into her own soul, and paints her own nature into her pictures." Henry Ward Beeecher
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 | Emerge from the Unknown (Oct 2020)
Flowdream to discover your butterfly nature Emerge from the Unknown Flowdream to Discover your Butterfly Nature
“Become like a caterpillar.
Eat for a happy tummy.
Wrap up in a blankey.
Fall deep asleep.
Dream of flying.
Become light.
Wake up beautiful.”
-Robin Maynard-Dobbs
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 | Rising from the Ashes (Sep 2020)
Notes from a Sensitive Soul Rising from the Ashes Notes from a Sensitive Soul
“Vulnerability feels like my greatest strength. It is the most human quality that allows the beauty and horror of the world to impress itself upon our souls."
Frank Ostaseski
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 | Sweet Ecstasy (Aug 2020)
Experience Rapture Now Sweet Ecstasy Experience Rapture one bite at a time
"At its most essential, the peach you hold is a manifestation of the wonderful presence of life. It is interconnected with all that is. It contains the whole universe; it is an ambassador of the cosmos coming to nourish our existence. It feeds our bodies and if we eat it mindfully, it also feeds our soul and recharges our spirit." &nbs |
 | Open to the unknown (Jul 2020)
Secrets of butterflies Open to the Unknown Secrets of Butterflies
“ Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful .”
Calvin Coolidge
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 | Flowdream for opening to joy (Jul 2020)
Flowdream to open up to Joy!
“ Half of any person is wrong in weak and off the beaten path. Half!
The other half is dancing and laughing and swimming in invisible joy.” Rumi
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 | Circle of Protection (Mar 2020)
Meditation to create inner safety Circle of Protection
“ Trust that life force has a strength of its own that will fill your arms and being as you let go on this earth. Receive it, rest in it". - Jack Kornfield
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 | Scared to Sacred (Mar 2020)
Turning Scared to Sacred
"Breathe deeply until the sweet air extinguishes the burn of fear in your lungs and every breath is a beautiful refusal to become anything less than infinite. " D. Antoinette Foy
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 | Two New ways to begin a New Year (Jan 2020)
Start Afresh A New Way to Begin a New Year
The Old Way: Resolution
You force yourself to get it together. You may join a gym with the resolution to exercise every day and declare you will never eat sweets again. After the excitement of the initial declaration of commitment wears off, you miss one day of exercise and feel like a failure. Or you eat one piece of chocolate and your whole day is ruined.&n |
 | Refrigerator Magnets (Dec 2019)
Remember Your Veggies! Dancing with Vegetables Introducing Refrigerator Magnets!
You know that you have not been getting the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, so you decide to upgrade to create healthier meals. You buy fresh produce at the grocery store with the intention to make something yummy. However, you are busy and end up going back to your old habit of ordering take-out. Then a week or two later, you discover a bag of yucky |
 | Quiz and Summer Updates 1 (Sep 2019)
Summer Updates
Quiz to Become Lighter and Summer Updates
I was delighted to be invited by a former client, Annemarie Juhlian, to speak on June 24th to a group of Badass Boomer Women about Guts and Grace: a Tender New Paradigm for Body Love in our Third Act. Forty of us “Badassas” gathered to be inspired to care for the most intimate relationship in our lives, that with our bodies. Plus, I had my artwork, the series Women |
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