Nancy London

dear ones….

How do we shine our light during these unprecedented times? How do we live with our hearts open when the planet is on fire? How do we find the courage to open to the suffering of the world without turning to dissociation, addiction, denial?

I don’t have the answers, but I do have stories. Stories about grief and courage and what it takes to honor our shadow as well as our light. Stories about wounds of the body and soul. Stories about loss and redemption. Stories that have broken me open and stitched me back together again. Stories that offer the healing balm of love.

Meantime, I invite you to listen to Living Gently With Grief, a podcast I recorded with Dona Bumgarner on Nurturing Habitat. And if you’d like an automatic notice when I post a new blog, please subscribe on the right side of any page

It’s hard to hold steady; we wobble, we fall. But if we fall one hundred times, we rise up one hundred and one. Love never fails.

Be well. Be kind to each other.

with much love,

Nancy

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This is how to cast a spell on grief: Open the windows wide and let the howling wind sweep the room clean. Invite in the ancestors, the ones who have been waiting for a healing. Sit them down and tell them that the spell you cast is on their behalf. Say this to grief: Knock … Continue reading a spell cast on grief

tool kit for chaos

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Of course we can all feel it coming. Our collective nerves are on edge. Wars, bombs, genocide – an entire population nearly starved to death, the endless news feed of political rallies that sound more like Nazi Germany than America. Ask anyone how they’re coping. It’s no joke, they say. It gets worse every day. … Continue reading tool kit for chaos

enemies

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My Aunt Ethel could stop a stampeding herd of elephants by placing her hands on her hips and snorting, Oh Please. Who wouldn’t be silenced, shamed, swallowing the words that threatened to break loose from a parched throat? Oh Please. Enemies? What’s with enemies? Who are your enemies? Who did you so bad you didn’t … Continue reading enemies

besotted and bedazzled

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I longed for a soulmate. I confessed this to my soul many years ago on a night when the sky was a blackboard and I wrote my wishes upon it. She looked up from her knitting, her large jungle green eyes. Aren’t I enough? Well, I said, kind of, but you know, I get cold … Continue reading besotted and bedazzled

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