Category Archives: ritual

It’s Time to Fulfill Your Dreams

By Jovanna | Published: November 7, 2014

We all have dreams. Dreams for a satisfying relationship, dreams for a closer family, dreams to express our creativity through art, writing or music. Dreams inspire us to make positive changes in our lives. Dreams call us to be our very best selves, our true selves. And yet dreams can also feel like a noose […]

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Listen to Your Dreams

By Jovanna | Published: October 10, 2014

In southern Ontario, the glow of autumn is upon us. This is one of my favourite times of year! I wish you and I could stand together under one of the magnificent maple trees. We could add our “ahhhh” to its orange flash of glory. If we looked down we’d notice another more subtle beauty, […]

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Self Blessing

By Jovanna | Published: September 26, 2014

Last weekend I spent a day with three dear friends who touched me with their words of love. We laughed, we cried and we all found ourselves “home” again. I feel so fortunate. “Sometimes it is necessary to re-teach a thing its loveliness”(Galway Kinnell). So true. When we feel despair, unworthy, broken, each of us […]

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Spontaneous Ritual

By Jovanna | Published: September 19, 2014

This summer, after we packed up our campsite loaded the canoe and were ready to leave for home, I said “Wait, we have one more thing to do! We have to say goodbye!” My partner and I stopped everything, returned to our campsite and walked around it one last time. We said, thank you to […]

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I Choose

By Jovanna | Published: September 5, 2014

Last week, my family met in Iowa to gather around my 93 year old father’s bedside as he was moving towards death. Those days of vigil were so beautiful. We held his hand and talked to him, my mother sang to him, we all sang together, the minister visited (he sang with us too), the […]

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Love Notes

By Jovanna | Published: August 29, 2014

I used to be a letter writer. I’d wait till the spirit moved me and I’d write directly from my heart. Writing letters was a way of spending quality time with loved ones who lived far away. My friends and I had a creative letter writing exchange. We expressed ourselves through words, photos and sometimes […]

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This Amazing Day

By Jovanna | Published: August 15, 2014

As a teenager, eecummings was one of my favourite poets. There was something alluring about an adult who chose not to capitalize words, punctuate sentences or even put words in the proper order. My favourite poem was “thank you god for most this amazing”. I learned it by heart. It begins like this… i thank […]

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A Ritual of Goodbye

By Jovanna | Published: June 27, 2014

I share my stories with you week after week in hopes that you can find yourself somewhere in the telling. I want to inspire you to create your own meaningful rituals that will open the way to a life that feels more free! It’s time to say another goodbye, this time to a place that […]

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Windows Wide Open

By Jovanna | Published: June 20, 2014

As I left home to go on a trip earlier this week, I gave the peonies in my garden one last sniff. I adore my peonies and this spring I’ve been making it a practice to pay attention to each and every one of them as they bloom. I have three different kinds of peonies, […]

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Love at First Sight

By Jovanna | Published: May 16, 2014

7 years ago this weekend, I met my beloved for the first time. Meeting him was no accident. I had been tending my relationship altar faithfully for several months to align with what I called “Big Love”. I had a strong desire to share my life with someone who was willing to meet me in […]

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