Feed Your Soul this Solstice
Dreams and dreamwork can help you celebrate the shifting seasons Summer officially begins on June 21st. And while the warmth of the sun naturally lures us outside to celebrate by firing up the barbecue …
Q&A: What Exactly Is a Mindful Approach to Sleep and Dreams?
How to bring mindfulness from the meditation cushion to your mattress in conversation with Tzivia Gover, MFA, CDP Q: You talk about mindfulness and sleep. But let’s start with the basics. Why are so many people …
A Dreamer’s Role in Hopeless Times
As a 10-year-old, I started a group called H.O.W. (Help Our World). I called a meeting of a few of my grade-school friends and we made posters that decried littering and admonished people to “Respect Mother Nature.” That group foundered but I’ve never quite given up: Now, with the same sense of outsized optimism, I host a group called 350 Dreamers, in which nearly 1,000 people around the world dream together in the face of climate change. And against all odds, I believe we can make a difference.
The Royal Road to Joyful Dreams
When you journey to the unconscious, bring a map During a recent trip to Mexico, where I’d come to present a program on Dreaming Toward Bliss at a conference on dreams and healing, I did …
Forgotten Dreams
Tapping into the power of dreams to help caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia Although it’s my job as a self-help author to encourage people to take good care of themselves, when my mother …
How Mary Oliver Helped Me Live My One Wild and Precious Life
Can a poem change your life? In a word: Yes. I’d been working as a reporter at a small-town newspaper when I heard Mary Oliver read her poetry at Smith College. At the time I’d …
Transforming holiday card writing from drudgery to joy
Too often during the busy holiday season, the idea of sending out holiday cards is only cozy and quaint in my imagination. Over the years, however, I’ve found ways to make this ritual creative, mindful, and more meaningful.
Lulla-buy! Stuff those stockings with dreamy sleep products
Give the gift of a good night’s sleep With so many people experiencing insomnia that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called it an epidemic, the gift of sleep is the perfect offering …
Holding On to Her Dreams: Guest blogger Sharon Pastore shares her story
This post is part of a series about how dreams can support caregivers dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. Start here to read more. When it was time to make a big decision on …
Dreaming into the Twilight Zone
After years of helping to care for my mother, and witnessing the ravages of a disease that stripped her of her memory, identity, and her access to language, and then mourning the loss of the woman who was also one of my closest friends and favorite people, I was eager to learn more about the joy, which at times during my grieving process felt as if it existed on a faraway planet, not right at the center of my 5’4” body—not very far away at all.