By: Michelle Whipple December 5, 2021 Motherhood, Spirituality, UncategorizedAuthenticity, Be Still, Cheryl Strayed, Consciousness, Divorce, featured, Mindfulness, yoga mindsetLeave a Comment

Tis the Damn Season

Do I need to rethink my entire life?… Or is it just the holidays? I found myself texting this to a friend who casually asked me how it was going? Not good. Not good at all. I mean, there are good things happening. But I think I wandered into the holidays a little off kilter.…

By: Michelle Whipple October 17, 2021 Creativity, Travel, UncategorizedAdventure travel, featured, Female solo travel, Female solo traveler, Hawaii, Kauai, Kundalini Yoga, solo travel, Travel, Women Solo Travel, Yoga, yoga mindsetLeave a Comment

Kauai is messing with you

This Kauai trip, it’s been interesting. I had the extra burden of writing a book while I’ve been here. That has made the trip decidedly less zen than my typical solo retreat. Also mercury is in retrograde. The Verizon tower was down on the North side of the island for a couple of days, plus…

By: Michelle Whipple August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Creativity, Poetry, Travel, UncategorizedDating, featured, Honesty, Online Dating, Positive Psychology, Yoga, yoga mindset11 Comments

The One Where She Starts Online Dating…Again

I’ve been dating to one extent or another since about 18 months after my ex and I separated. I naively stepped up to the plate thinking that I was basically a good wife and I should be able to find a suitable husband replacement fairly easily. People told me my most difficult job would be…

By: Michelle Whipple July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 UncategorizedActive Imagination, Authenticity, COVID-19, featured, Pandemic, Positive Psychology, Quarantine3 Comments

Covid sucks. Can we turn it off?

In June I found my self saying over and over again, “I just need a minute to myself.” So this last week has been some strange karmic joke or the answer to prayer or maybe just a symbol of how in touch with the universe I really am. Because I got covid. Everyone wants to…

By: Michelle Whipple May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Creativity, Mental Health, Poetryfeatured, kindness, Poetry, self talk, Self Trust, the artist's way, WritingLeave a Comment

Your Power

I’m just coming off of this month of 30 poems in 30 days. I laughed a lot. I took a closer look at some personal and hard things. I like poetry because it gives a way to share those things without oversharing (maybe??? maybe I overshare there too). At the beginning of the challenge, I…

By: Michelle Whipple March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 Travel, Uncategorizedfeatured, Female solo travel, Feminist, girls just want to feel safe, safe travel, solo travel, Travel, violence against womenLeave a Comment

What if I decided I was safe?

When I was first married, I lived in a laundromat. I say it that way because the apartment was actually IN the building of the laundromat, but I wasn’t sleeping on washing machines at night. During my short time there, I encountered a man who used the bathroom sink every morning to bathe and then…

By: Michelle Whipple March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 Creativity, UncategorizedCreativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, featured, Jungian Psychology, Muse, music, play, Positive Psychology, Writing2 Comments

A Well-Tended Muse

When there are too many things for the hours in the day, call upon a well-tended muse.

By: Michelle Whipple March 6, 2021March 7, 2021 Poetry, UncategorizedCreativity, Ease, featured, Nature, Poetry, Self TrustLeave a Comment

Be.

Rest in cool water. Dance in flame. Lick up morsels lobbed onto my plate. I was born in ease, In the universe, In myself. Hung the world round my neck, Its weight pulling nearer, nearer to the floor. Stop that. Let it clatter on the floorboards. Skip into the mud forest. Find a shelf fungus,…

Tis the Damn Season

By: Michelle Whipple December 5, 2021

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Meditation: The Mad-Morning Problem

By: Michelle Whipple October 31, 2021

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I used to write a lot about meditative practice and it can look many different ways. Walking, yoga, transcendental meditation, washing the dishes, taking a bath—these are all meditative practices I have leaned on heavily to get through these past few years. I was facing my own dark night of the soul. I like Mark…

Kauai is messing with you

By: Michelle Whipple October 17, 2021

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Can we talk about kindergarten?!

By: Michelle Whipple September 19, 2021

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R started Kindergarten at the end of August. I did not know what to expect, but here are my observations so far: Disclosure. Having to do family court about school start probably infinitely increases the stress level around it. Benefits of being a Californian. Yes! We pay higher taxes, but in California, there are no…

From the ashes -> Contentment

By: Michelle Whipple September 7, 2021

UncategorizedAuthenticity, Contentment, fitness, kindness, Love, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, relationships, Self Trust, social media, Tara Brach, Weight Training, yoga fit, yoga for weight loss, Yoga lifestyle4 Comments

I just finished listening to a Tara Brach podcast about contentment. And it brought me back to this question I’ve been asking myself for several years, How do I relax and enjoy my life? It’s an enigma, right? And I think it’s compounded by social media where it feels like everyone is doing just that.…

The One Where She Starts Online Dating…Again

By: Michelle Whipple August 15, 2021August 15, 2021

Creativity, Poetry, Travel, UncategorizedDating, featured, Honesty, Online Dating, Positive Psychology, Yoga, yoga mindset11 Comments

Covid sucks. Can we turn it off?

By: Michelle Whipple July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

UncategorizedActive Imagination, Authenticity, COVID-19, featured, Pandemic, Positive Psychology, Quarantine3 Comments

How To Attend Your 20-Year High School Reunion:

By: Michelle Whipple July 13, 2021July 13, 2021

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(In 38 EASY steps…because that’s about how old you will be when you need this guide!) Graduate high school. Go to college and learn that you might have been too big for your britches. Let the bitches get you down. Aim sights a little lower. Get married before you age out of the college dating…

Your Power

By: Michelle Whipple May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

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Poem A Day: Week 4

By: Michelle Whipple May 16, 2021

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Phewph! as R likes today. That was a lot of poems and I did lose momentum at the end because–life. But I have a couple of thoughts about completing the challenge. First, it was really fun! Not that I always loved the obligation of writing so many poems in such a short time, but it…