Tend Her 4.0
Tend Her 4.0: HOPE Free Online 4 Week Training Begins March 31 and Registration Opens March 12 Join a movement of hope as the final installment of Tend Her begins on March 31. This online program began in 2021 thanks to a mental health prevention grant through the state of Iowa, and each year over […]
A message on Hope
A message on HopeMy 16-year-old son recently admitted to me in an off-hand way that he sometimes worries the planet won’t be here by the time he is an adult. I had never heard this deep fear he carries so it caught me off guard. When I asked more questions, his teenage brain was focused […]
Do you know what spreads faster than lies?
It is well established in the scientific literature that lies spread faster than facts. Six times as fast. We are inundated with information in this new Information Age which keeps us all constantly sifting through data. It can be very hard to know whether what you are reading, or what link you have clicked on, is actually […]
Heroine’s Journey Q & A 2025
ReClaim Program: The Heroine’s Journey “Listen, are you breathing a little, and calling it a life?” – Mary Oliver I have always resisted winter. The lack of light and cold temperatures throw me into a a funk. This changed after embarking on the Heroine’s Journey. For the last 2 winters, I worked with about 100 students […]
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Shivaya I have just one tattoo that I got shortly after turning 40. It is a small Sanskrit phrase on the inside of my left wrist. It’s the mantra I used when I first began meditating on a regular basis. The phrase is “Om Namah Shivaya” and one of its translations is “I bow to my […]
The Importance of Descent, Especially Now
Dear Friend, Below is a replay of this month’s Wisdom Wednesday where we explore descent, and how the darkest time of the year is a key moment to go inward and work with your shadow. Throughout humanity, rites of passage were supportive structures that helped people in their life transitions. We have very few rites of […]
Dreams
Dear Friend, Dreams are universally intriguing! They delight, surprise, amuse, and sometime terrify us. I’ve been keeping dream journals since my 20s, but started earnestly sharing, studying, and working with them in a therapeutic way during what I like to refer to as my mid life awakening in my 40s. Scientists say dreams are just […]
The Inner Child
Free Wisdom Wednesday with Dr. Betsy Rippentrop The Inner Child: Bringing Awareness to Old Patterning that Keeps us Stuck It is common to hear the importance of ‘healing your inner child’. What does this even mean and is it even possible? What if I cannot even remember my childhood? I have enough challenges as an adult to […]
A message for Spring
Dear Friend, Early Spring can be a challenging time because we are all carrying excess heaviness, lethargy, and dullness coming out of the winter months. According to Ayurveda, in the Northern Hemisphere we are in Kapha season, a time when cold and prevailing wetness increases our tendency toward depression. Western psychological research suggests something similar. […]
Deep Dive
A reminder– enrollment for Yoga for the Mind closes TODAY at 5PM! The first class begins at 5:30PM! Whether you’re a yoga teacher, therapist, coach, educator, healer, medical professional, or a parent…one thing’s for sure: We are in a mental health crisis, and the world is needing people in the words of Dr. Karl Menninger “to help […]
