by Heidi Sloss | Aug 19, 2021 | Pearls of Wisdom |
How has your summer been? We have been busy. In late June we went east for two weeks to see family. We were all over the map between Washington, DC and upstate New York, with too many hotels for all the places we went to, but it was also fun to see so many of our...
by Heidi Sloss | Jun 18, 2021 | Pearls of Wisdom Writing |
Here is a short piece I wrote in my Pearls of Wisdom Writing class last week. The narrative poem I used was called Snatch Your Power Back by Octavia Raheem from her book, Gather: a collection of soulful sayings, poetry and flashes of insight. She is a yoga teacher and...
by Heidi Sloss | Jun 1, 2021 | Mothering |
In last week’s post I mentioned that I have been doing a writing practice for over a year and it has been healing and transformational. I’m launching my own version called, Pearls of Wisdom Writing Circles, after finishing up a 6-month teacher training. The writing...
by Heidi Sloss | May 24, 2021 | Gratitude, Health, Mothering |
Remember those school assignments from grade school given at the start of the year where the teacher asked for an essay along the lines of ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation?’ I picture many of us telling the stories of our pandemic experiences for years to come. We have...
by Heidi Sloss | Sep 15, 2020 | Yoga |
We act as if we have all the time in the world. I have for decades and I’ve watched many others move in slow motion as if the final moment of our lives isn’t really real. We are constantly marching towards it. The Buddhist meditate on it and with my upcoming 60th...
