Do you “know your worth?” In 2010-2011 I took an online empowerment course called Feminine Power where they talked about our value and our worth. They'd say, "your value and worth are inherent in your being." I'd never heard such a thing before. What this meant to me was that I didn’t have to earn, prove or get/aquire my value and worth....
Part 4: Feel Your Feelings, But... One thing that's come to me twice in the past few days is a saying: Feel your feelings, but don't stay there too long. It is important, shall I say IMPORTANT TO FEEL OUR FEELINGS!!! It is SO important, I cannot even stress this enough. And...don't stay there. Feelings are meant to be felt. Then, they...
Part 3: And...Don't Take On Others Suffering Hi, In this unexpected third part of the series about turning towards life, I realized how important it was to communicate this point of not taking on others' suffering. Yesterday, as I was watching some of the news about the Uvalde school shooting, and listening to some graphic and horrific...
Becoming What We Already Are by Keith Kristich, Christian Contemplative Hey, A community member, Keith Kristich, who is a leader in the Christian Contemplative movement, wrote a blog post that I really enjoyed. It speaks to the truth of who we are. Something we so often forget. We must remember. Click here to read this thoughtful,...
Part 2: How to turn towards what's happening Read Part 1 Here Dear fellow human, It is with a sad heart that I start to write this email. I have no words for the awfully horrifying events that took place yesterday at an elementary school in Texas. At least 19 children, CHILDREN, dead and two adults from the hands of an 18 year old, male...
Part 1: Turning Towards Tragedy, Life and Ourselves I learned a lot two Saturdays ago about empathy and care. My dance partner and I were teaching Latin dance to a private wedding party Saturday, May 14th, in the evening. The racist shooting and murder of innocent black and brown skinned people on the East Side of Buffalo, N.Y. occurred...
Help Buffalo's East Side Well, as you may have heard, Buffalo’s in the midst of healing from a racially motivated violent attack on black and brown skinned people from a young, 18 year old man, who doesn’t live here. He targeted Buffalo’s East side because of its depth and breadth of black culture. But, little did he know that Buffalo is...
Get notified of our next Salsa in the Park event by signing up for our email list here (unsubscribe at any time). Welcome to the 9th Annual Salsa in the Park 2022 Brought to you by Sarah Haykel, of Salsa for the Soul, part of Love Is Real LLC, with Jerome Williams Read about Salsa in the Park in The Buffalo News here. Click here to see the photos...
Accepting Life on Life's Terms When I was teaching at a local elder care facility, I had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful, intelligent and worldly woman named Mary. She was intelligent, heartfelt, wise beyond belief. She’d lived many lives in her one lifetime here and was so loving and tender and real and supportive towards me. I...
Today's sustainable living resource is all about composting. Now, truth be told, I don’t compost at home and I don’t have all the information you’d ever need to know about how to compost, but I’ve included a link below to give you all the details you’d need to know to create a composting system at your home! And, although I don’t know the...
