Josea Tamira Crossley 
Yesterday, we celebrated the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and also the beginning of the 12 days of Yule, which begins on the eve of the Solstice and ends on New Years Day. In our local community I co-created a ritual of release and celebrating our light with some beautiful friends. In the centre …
We are less than a week away from the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, which means we are well within the Solstice energy of stillness, reflection & dreaming. (Solstice actually means “sun-stop” and there is a window of about 10 days in which the sun seems to “stop” before the orientation shifts and the …
Since our final Advanced Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Retreat wrapped a few weeks ago, I’ve been dropping into sleep the way a stone drops into deep water – sudden, complete, irresistible gravitational force. Eight, nine, ten hours at a stretch some nights. Occasionally 12. Some powerful dreams have come through, but mostly it’s that …
5 Keys for Tending Your Well While Grieving or Doing Deep Emotional Work I’ve been in Ireland for nearly two weeks now, and it’s been really wonderful. So many things I can’t put into words yet. My friend Rosalyn called it a pilgrimage when she heard. I hadn’t exactly thought of it like that until …
Since returning from my time on the wild Northwest Coast, I’m feeling so much clarity, and equally as much not-knowing. It feels so good to acknowledge this (not-knowing) and just allow it to be this way. So many things are shifting in my world right now, and I know I’m not alone in this. We are …
A reflection on the restorative power of beauty, deep nature connection and the necessary slowness required to tend to our deepest Soul in both grief & gratitude. Dear Beloved Reader, I’m writing this with sand still metaphorically between my toes and the rhythm of ocean waves still echoing in my dreams. I have showered (probably …
August is Integration Month – Be Like Fruit The last few weeks, I’ve found myself watching pears and apples surrender to gravity, falling heavy and ripe to the earth below, and thinking, “That’s exactly how I feel.” A few figs slip by me as well and end up on the ground (not many – they …
For those feeling overwhelmed by what’s unfolding in our world… I think this time has different challenges depending on the generation you are from. Older folks are shaken up because the world is changing so fast and things they thought were certain are dissolving. Young people are fighting for the future of our planet that …
The Earth has called home another of her most devoted daughters. Joanna Macy, creator of the Work That Reconnects and beloved teacher of ecological awakening, grief tending and being deeply human, died peacefully this week at 96, surrounded by love in her own home. Like a tree that continues giving even as it prepares to return …
Dear Friends & Community, One of the most incredible poets and beautiful humans died this week at the too soon age of 49. It came to me as a bit of a shock, as although I am a huge fangirl, I hadn’t been following super closely or clued in that they hadn’t posted anything lately. …
