Category Archives: practices

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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Let Yourself be Called

By Jovanna | Published: September 12, 2014

Earlier this week, I went out in my back yard to fill the bird feeder with seed. It was a bright afternoon and my eye was drawn to a giant spider web perfectly illuminated in the sun. It took my breath away. What a work of art! I got up close to observe the complex […]

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Take Time

By Jovanna | Published: August 22, 2014

Late last night I returned from a 10-day trip to Nova Scotia. We chose to wind our way home on the back roads, which took several hours longer, but the perspective gained was one of a connection to the landscape we were traveling through and to the people who lived there. It was so satisfying! […]

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Infuse Your Life with Beautiful

By Jovanna | Published: July 3, 2014

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” (Anonymous) I lovingly offer these words as a guidepost as you move through your life this week. Ask yourself this question, “What am I doing to create space in my life to experience […]

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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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The Voice of Inner Wisdom

By Jovanna | Published: June 13, 2014

Do you find it challenging to make important decisions? Once you’ve made a decision do you find yourself second-guessing it, what felt clear begins to feel clouded with doubt? All of us have a chorus of voices vying for attention but it’s up to us to choose which voice gets to be the soloist. When […]

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A Place of Nourishment

By Jovanna | Published: May 30, 2014

We all need a place where we can go to be reminded that all is well. When my youngest son was a child we started vacationing in Florida. We would return to the same place year after year and it became our home away from home for a week or two every winter. During those […]

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Find Silence

By Jovanna | Published: April 25, 2014

Sweet silence. I’ve always felt an affinity for it. On weekend nights during my last year in high school, along with cruising around town looking for fun, my best friend and I would make time to stop in at a Catholic church. We both knew that the doors would be open and that no one […]

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Pausing the Whirl

By Jovanna | Published: April 4, 2014

I have a gift for distilling complications. When I work with clients I help them find what’s at the essence of a challenging situation and then an actionable way forward easily reveals itself. There is nothing dramatic about the work of “waking up”. One day you notice your life has changed for the better. Looking […]

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The Antidote to Angst

By Jovanna | Published: March 14, 2014

Gratefulness is a lovely quality to cultivate. When you wake in the morning, practice gratefulness even before you get out of bed. Naming 3 things you are grateful for will set a positive tone to your day. “I am grateful for the morning light, I am grateful for my warm bed, I am grateful for […]

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