by martha@marthagelnawbreathwork.com | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
According to Jungian psychology, “women are influenced by powerful inner forces or archetypes, which can be personified by goddesses.” (Jean Shinoda Bolen) An archetype is a pattern of instinctual behavior that is contained in the unconscious mind and that is...
by martha@marthagelnawbreathwork.com | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its...
by martha@marthagelnawbreathwork.com | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
“Breathe it all in, love it all out.”Mary Oliver (Get Your Crone On (sung to the tune of Missy Elliott’s “Get Your Freak On”) What is like to fully step into your Crone? I find that it gives me a new lease on purpose and fulfillment. Oh, I was...
by martha@marthagelnawbreathwork.com | Oct 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is based on a podcast interview with John O’Donohue by Kristen Tippet – excerpted from Becoming Wise on the On Being Podcast – March 18, 2016 Imagine that you are hearing these words spoken in the lilt of John O’Donohue’s (philosopher, poet)...
by martha@marthagelnawbreathwork.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Neuroscience tells us that the heart has its own nervous system. Scientists know now that the heart is in charge of the brain. (It had been thought it’s the other way around.) New research cited in the Psychiatric Times shows- “The heart sends more information to the...
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