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Five Self Care Tips for the Fall Season

As we’re into the fall season in the northern hemisphere, the weather is changing and we don’t want to become sick with colds and flu, which it is easier to do when we are run down and exhausted. Self-care is vitally important in these months to protect our physical, emotional, and spiritual health so that we remain healthy, especially leading up to the winter. Self-care also can play a role in the joy and celebration that can come in honouring each season and help us to re-connect with ourselves and the earth and universe. And then when we are with our loved ones we can be more fully present for them. Read on for five self-care tips for the fall season.

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1. Harvest. Fall is a time of harvesting and we reap what we have sowed. If you didn’t sow anything and have nothing to harvest then go ahead and venture forth to the farmers market or an apple orchard and pick apples! You can take your whole family. The harvest will need to be prepared for use and to store over the winter, so whether you want to freeze it or cook it and then freeze it or can or preserve it, figure out a plan to make like a modern day pioneer and work your plan. You can refer to a book or an online video for “how to” instructions. I recently had a chance to pick some apples at my family members’ place and chopped them up to be stewed for use during winter. Yes, preparing fruits and vegetables for use over winter is hard work but at least it can be done with mindfulness, and will give you a much needed break from staring at your computer screen, phone, and social media! It’s a way of connecting with the earth and the universe and not to mention the older generations of our families who may have long cherished family recipes or methods to pass down to you.

2. Gratitude. During the fall season both Canada and the United States celebrate Thanksgiving, although on different dates. It might be a great time to explore the idea of a starting a Gratitude Journal. It can be a 30 day journal, or more or less, whatever works for you. Brainstorm and let it flow. One suggestion could be that you can try writing about things that you are grateful for that are specific to the fall season. If the idea of an actual journal doesn’t appeal to you, another option is to make it a habit to write a daily gratitude list on your planner pages. It can be your top three things that you are grateful for that day. It may sound like a small thing but even taking a moment to write down three things will shift your mood and make an impact on your mindset.

3. Creativity. Creativity is good for the soul as I know you all know by now! You can enjoy creating crafts using the natural materials available to you outside in the fall, such as fall wreaths, or corn husk dolls, or works of abstract art from the same natural materials, and writing using the natural world around you for inspiration for your poetry or song lyrics. Just google to find instructions for fall arts and craft projects. Another act of creativity is cooking. You can research recipes and cook seasonal dishes. This ties in with the first tip above, harvest. Bake a pumpkin or apple pie.

4. Meditations celebrating fall. Find a seasonal guided meditation in a book or online or you can be creative and write your own. It doesn’t have to be long, it can be as short as a few minutes. This will help you to connect with the earth and the universe.

5. Journaling on intention. Focus on setting an intention(s) and goals for the season. Write down your intention for this fall season and what you plan to do in these last few months of the year. Then write down the first few action steps needed to make your intention a plan and make the plan happen. Or you can instead write down what this season means to you in your life right now. Art journaling is another option, if you prefer to draw an image or images to represent what the season means to you. It doesn’t have to be fancy or laborious, doodles are fine too, just go with the flow that springs forth when you start to draw.

These self-care tips will help you to deepen your connection with the earth and universe by celebrating the fall season and to re-connect with your inner core essence. Your loved ones will thank you as you will be more fully present when you are with them. Fall is a beautiful time of year to be honoured and celebrated and taking care of ourselves is a way of also giving thanks and honouring the earth.

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Thankful: On Gratitude and Giving Thanks

This weekend is Thanksgiving here in Canada. At this time of year many of us think about the things that we have to be grateful for as part of giving thanks to the universe. It is so important to take time to do this. Feeling and expressing gratitude has health benefits both physical and psychological, not to mention spiritual.

It increases our self-esteem as it balances the resentfulness we may sometimes feel if we compare ourselves to others. It also open us up to more relationships, because expressing gratitude can help us to foster new friendships. It strengthens the relationships that we already have. And feeling and expressing gratitude can increase mental toughness and our resiliency.

This year I feel particularly thankful for the health and wellness of my family as so many people have struggled during the pandemic including with their employment situations so I really feel grateful. I am giving thanks for having a safe place to live and to be able to support myself and have enough to eat which so many others in the world do not have at this time. And I’m grateful for my loved ones including my human family and friends and my dear dog, Charlie.

You can give thanks in prayer, in your journal, through art, through writing poetry and many other ways. What are some of your favourite ways to give thanks? Let us know in the comments below. And here is a poem that I wrote to give thanks.

I AM GRATEFUL

Feeling the gentle breeze

And hearing the wind rustle the leaves

Shimmering greens in sunlight

Feeling the connection

The circle of the Earth

Of life

Of nature

I am the earth

I am the wind

I am the trees

Living in the moment

I am here now

To enjoy eternity

A bird calls

An insect whirs

I am grateful

For this moment

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Fall Forest Bathing in Rural Ontario

I love this time of year. As September turns into October, without the sluggishness of the heat of summer to slow me down, I feel more energetic and enterprising. I love walking outside in nature with my dog, and also just being outside, even if I’m not walking or working but am just “being”.

As my time continued at the countryside property in rural Ontario, Canada where I visited family recently, I took a picture of a lovely oak leaf, you can see the veins in it. I took a picture of magical looking mossy rocks that always conjure up vague notions of other fantasy worlds of fairies and elves in my mind whenever I see them. Another picture is of the carpet of periwinkle interspersed with the occasional goutweed. The dark grey clouds rolled in and I took a picture of them above the trees. Another picture, also a landscape, was taken after I had returned home and it was sent to me, reminding me of all that I was now missing. The beautiful landscape and fresh air.

carpet of periwinkle interspersed with the occasional goutweed…

I’m back at home now and looking at the photos, I’m reminded of the term forest bathing also called shinrin-yoku. In Japanese Shinrin means forest and yoku means bath. You can just be outside and soak up the atmosphere of the forest, the smells, sounds, the air. It is good for the soul. If you live in the city it is vital to your wellbeing to get some time outside in nature and is so great for stress management and reconnecting with your soul and inner core essence.

The dark clouds rolled in and I took a picture of them above the trees.

A lot of what I do out in the countryside or in the large park settings close to my home is forest bathing, I’m not always walking briskly or working. Sometimes I’m walking slowly, ambling along and just being. On one recent day out in the countryside my mother, Charlie and I were out for three hours. We ambled slowly, looked at the trees, collected seeds from the Siberian pea shrub for me to plant at my own home, took cuttings from the lilac shrubs and planted them elsewhere, tied up a honeysuckle shrub that was drooping, walked down and had a look at the linden trees, and then just generally soaked up the atmosphere. For three hours. Our “work” and walking did not take the three hours, but still three hours passed. It was a joyous and happy time and I felt all the better for it.

Charlie enjoying his shinrin-yoku (forest bathing).

To enjoy forest bathing, you don’t have to be working or doing a project, although if you live in the countryside you know there is plenty of work to do all the time, and you don’t even have to be walking or on the way somewhere. You just have to go outside and soak up the atmosphere, it’s about reconnecting with nature through all of your senses. Occasionally pause on your walks or during your busy work and soak it all in. You will feel better for it. I certainly do.

In the evenings now I look out and see my dog, Charlie, lying on my deck or in the grass in the backyard, even as it gets dark outside. With the cooler weather he is more comfortable, and being a dog with a thick coat makes it challenging sometimes for him to be out too long in the summer heat. But these fall days and evenings are just right for him, and he lies outside looking the absolute picture of contentment. I learn a lot from him and his wise attitude as he also enjoys “forest bathing” or just soaking it all in. Just “being” while you are surrounded by nature. Ah, bliss.

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Fall has Arrived

This past week we welcomed the fall equinox and with that, fall has arrived up here in the northern hemisphere. Whether you are welcoming in fall or, in the southern hemisphere, the start of spring, take a moment to pause and reflect on what this particular season means to you.

I’m visiting family in the countryside, and yesterday had a lovely walk. I set off and made my way through a rustic arbour that is a simple enough structure made of old wooden pioneer fence posts but that somehow always manages to make me feel that I’m embarking on a grand adventure through a portal to a magical world. And it is! The sheer beauty of this property in rural Ontario, Canada astonishes me every time I am here to enjoy it.

As I walked I passed clusters of lovely Michaelmas daisies (from the aster family) with smaller white flowers and also some with the slightly larger beautiful mauve coloured ones.

As I walked I passed lovely clusters of Michaelmas Daisies

Below is a simple meditation from my 5 Ways to Celebrate the Seasons of the Year guided workbook, available in my Free Resource Library. In the guided workbook there are meditations and journal prompts to celebrate and reflect on each season of the year.

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You may wish to enjoy the meditation or even to go ahead and write your own meditation to reconnect you with the earth and the universe.

Meditation for the Fall Season

I am gathering

What I have grown

I am rewarded

By my efforts

For this I give thanks

And I am humbled

I am grateful

As the colours on the trees change

The leaves so beautiful in their

Reds oranges and yellows

I can feel such gratitude to them

For their beauty

They are not sad

They rejoice

I revel in the their celebration

Of Autumn

I am here

In this moment

Of beauty

And splendour

Yes, I am here.

Guided Journal Prompt: Fall includes not only Thanksgiving (here in North America) but also preparations leading up to the busy time of the festive holidays. In the later Fall we can start to feel over scheduled and feel the stresses of the busy-ness of this time of year. How will you practice exquisite self-care throughout the fall season and look after yourself to replenish your well-spring of energy and keep healthy?

After my lovely walk yesterday, I gathered some self-heal flowers, which had been growing right under our noses and can be used in making teas or tinctures. Like goldenrod which grows profusely in this area, self-heal is a local flower which has healing properties, hence the name “self-heal”. I have probably seen self-heal my entire life and admired the purple flowers but just recently found out its name and that it can be used to make healing teas. My mother asked me to gather some of the self-heal flowers for her today and I wait to see what she will do with them once they are dried.

For me personally, fall has always been a season that I associate with learning, maybe due to so many formative years spent in returning to school in September. And for me as I learn more about the herbs, plants, and flowers that grow around me in my own backyard and at my family’s property and the healing abilities associated with these plants, it sparks my naturally inquisitive nature and the yearning to learn more. Making your own teas, tinctures, and health elixirs is self-empowering and something that I will definitely do more of in the future. Now, I continue to feed my need to learn through reading, watching the videos of favourite herbalists, and also just by doing.

This fall it feels like it will be perhaps an early and long winter. It seems to be cooler sooner than usual for this time of year and we have already had our first frost. As I reflect on the fall season, what it means to me, ways that I can be even more attuned to the earth and my authentic self, and the things that I’d like to do in the next few months, I feel thankful. I am thankful for the splendid colours as the leaves on the trees change colour, for the goldenrod blooms, and for the cooler weather, perfect for walking my dog. And I am thankful for this time that eases us out of summer and allows us to mentally get ready before the season changes once again. I am thankful for fall.

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Four Ways to Strengthen Your Intuition

We all have intuition but some of us don’t use it as often as others do. The more you use your intuition, the stronger it will become, and the easier you will be able to access it as a vital resource that you can rely upon. If you are interested in strengthening your intuition, you can begin by first strengthening your connection with yourself, and with your inner core essence. And being in alignment with yourself. Here are four ways to strengthen your intuition.

1. Practice Mindfulness: A regular mindfulness practice is helpful in reconnecting with your inner core essence, which will help you to strengthen your intuition. Your mindfulness practice can include times, activities, and a routine that works best for you. This may include a morning routine and or an evening routine, made up of mindfulness activities. Two examples of mindfulness activities are meditation and journaling. Meditation and journaling can strengthen your ability to “tune in” to yourself, align with your inner essence, and find balance.

2. Creativity: A creative practice will help you to strengthen your intuition by connecting you with yourself, getting you into a state of “flow”, and helping you to feel more aligned with your playful inner self and balanced. Whether it is a visual arts such a painting, drawing, doodling, photography, or music, writing, or fabric arts, or crafts, however you choose to be creative will help you in this process.

3. Spending time in nature: By being outside in nature we all feel more balanced and aligned. It’s good for our souls. It also will help bring you back to a place of connection with your inner essence which is vital for being able to listen to your intuition. A walk in nature can make our voice of intuition sound louder as we listen for it, and the sense of knowing, a deeper feeling. By taking regular nature breaks, we have a way to turn off the noise and distractions that can come with our busy lives, which can have a detrimental impact on our ability to strengthen and listen to our own intuition.

4. Use it regularly: The more regularly and frequently you tune into and use your intuition, the stronger it will be and the louder it will be when you listen for it. Think of it as a muscle that gets stronger over time with regular use. Your intuition can be the same way. Not only will it become stronger but you will find it easier to access, the more you do use it.

By practicing mindfulness, having a creativity practice, spending time in nature, and using your intuition regularly, you will find that you become more aligned with yourself and connected to your inner core essence. You will feel more balanced and you will find it easier to access your intuition as your voice of intuition resonates more loudly with you and becomes stronger.

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Connect with Your Inner Core Essence: Remember what Activities You Loved as a Child

One of the things that I love to encourage is for us all to connect (re-connect!) with our inner core essence. That part of you that is so easy to forget, ignore and to temporarily occasionally even lose for a time when we are busy adults rushing through our lives. There are many ways to reconnect with your inner core essence, and today I’m writing about one in particular: remembering what you loved as a child.

There are many ways to reconnect with your inner core essence, and today I’m writing about one in particular: remembering what you loved as a child. When we were all little, before we grew up and got busy into working and responsibilities and sometimes forgetting how to play, we all had activities and things that loved to do and that spoke to our inner essence. That spoke to US!

Think back to when you were small. Remember. As a child, what activities and things did you love and what inspired you?

It might take a while to jog your memory, but persist and try to make a list of a few things. They could be activities or favourite subjects from kindergarten or grade school, or that you did with a family member or a special school trip.

Once you have a few things written down then brainstorm ways that you may be interested in exploring those activities and topics again now that you are grown. Whether it is a matter of “playing” with an activity and enjoying your “me time” or “family time” with it as a hobby, or whether you would like to take a course or workshop on it, or read a related book, there are so many different ways you can discover and embrace your love of that thing, that activity again.

I loved to do arts and crafts as a child, and was inspired by pieces of beautiful fabric of varying colours and patterns that my kindergarten or daycare teacher had supplied for our crafts sessions. I’m not sure where she got them, but these small fabric squares opened my mind to a whole new world and endless possibilities of colour combinations and craft ideas. I must have been about five years old and I still remember them! I grew up and as a mature student completed a fine arts degree and to this day I still do visual arts and crafts including knitting.

This is just an example of something that I loved as a child which I can do as an adult to reconnect with my inner core essence. When I do visual arts or crafts I get into a state of flow, and feel in balance and alignment. If I had forgotten this and was looking to reconnect with my inner essence and align myself again, and thought back to when I was a child what I loved to do, arts and crafts would be top of my list.

Remembering what you loved to do as a child, and what inspired you, is a useful and practical approach to finding ways to be in alignment with yourself and to reconnect with your inner core essence as an adult.

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Gratitude and Giving Thanks

And feeling and expressing gratitude can increase mental toughness and our resiliency.

I AM GRATEFUL

Feeling the gentle breeze

And hearing the wind rustle the leaves

Shimmering greens in sunlight

Feeling the connection

The circle of the Earth

Of life

Of nature

I am the earth

I am the wind

I am the trees

Living in the moment

I am here now

To enjoy eternity

A bird calls

An insect whirs

I am grateful

For this moment

You may enjoy this related post on expressing gratitude, it’s about writing a thank you letter to your body.

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Peace and gratitude,

Fiona

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Breathing Spaces

Whether you live in a rural, suburban or urban setting, it is important that we all have our own breathing spaces. They nourish our souls, fill up our hearts, and make us feel whole again. It is vital to take time to enjoy them regularly and make them part of our routine. Find something that can be your own breathing space.

Some years ago, Oprah used to include in her magazines a double page spread which she called Breathing Spaces (if I recall correctly) and which showed beautiful outdoor shots. I loved the term Breathing Spaces. When you looked at the photos you felt instantly rejuvenated, replenished, and refreshed.

Find something that can be your own breathing space. If you live in an apartment, you can make use of your local parks, or perhaps you have created an oasis of plants in your apartment. If you live somewhere rural perhaps you have a favourite tree that you enjoy sitting under. For the suburban dweller, there are also local parks you can make use of, and find a special spot there. Or if you are lucky enough to have a bit of yard space, you can sit in it and enjoy the bliss of your garden or little bit of paradise. You don’t need an extensive garden, even just a few plants will help. Do whatever evokes that feeling in you of calm, peacefulness, grounding, and inner bliss. And at work, you can post up a picture of the breathing space or a calendar of these kind of photos, putting it where you will be able to see it while you are working. Even something as simple as flipping through a cottage garden magazine and looking at the beautiful gardens, can help while you are traveling on a crowded commuter train.

While we all know that getting outside helps us and is good for our health, the notion of breathing spaces, helps us to add it into our routines, and make sure we prioritize it. Consciously be aware of where and what your own breathing spaces are. Make it a good habit and ensure that you are able to incorporate it into your schedule. These moments of relaxation will help recharge your batteries and replenish your well.

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Five Self-Care Tips for the Fall Season

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Become unstuck or unfrozen
Enter a state of flow

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My Year of Daily Commuting (Exhaustion!): 5 Ways I Coped and 5 Things I Learnt

I help people use mindfulness and creativity to reconnect with their inner essence, manage stress, find their "flow", and be better able to be fully present when they are with their loved ones. This can help everyone but my offerings are especially geared towards busy career women who want to replenish their wells and avoid burn out. SO…in a bizarre twist, I found myself at risk of burnout myself when I began commuting 4 to 5 hours daily to work a day job in another city. I did this for one year until August this summer when I started a new day job in the city that I live in (thank you universe!). Needless to say I spent the past year exhausted, and sometimes even feeling like a fraud.

No this isn’t a photo of me, but yes I did take a commuter train as well as driving part of the way!

With the recent Fall Equinox and first day of fall bringing us the new season, I feel it is time to celebrate the fact that I have a new day job (yes folks, I have a day job like so many of you!), and have been taking back control of some of my time. I did this in order to be able to focus more on “replenishing my well” and recharging my batteries, after a year of commuting four to five hours daily to work. During which time I didn’t publish many newsletters except when I was on vacation during the spring! So it is already the fall and I’m only on the fourth issue this year.

I was too tired physically emotionally and mentally to meditate for as long as I wanted to or to do creative work for hours a day, put out newsletters, write weekly blogposts, be the facilitator that I wanted to in our facebook group Creativity and Mindfulness Circle, do facebook lives, create new content for course offerings, update old course offerings, all the other things that need to be done not to mention administrative and household tasks and most importantly build relationships or show up for my friends. In shorter units of time I meditated, wrote in my journal, tried to sketch in my sketchbook and wrote occasional poetry but I recognized that I was just limping along. I had to find my inner peace by telling myself: “just for now, accept that nothing will change”.

Yet that didn’t help with the physical exhaustion, and I did have to make a much needed change which I was able to do, and so I changed my work. Now that I have a day job in the city that I live in, a job which I started just over a month ago, I have a ten minute commute to work and I have gotten back four to five hours of my day which I’d previously spent commuting. I’m sleeping more which I desperately needed to do, having more fun and more much needed time for creativity and mindfulness in my own life to replenish my own well. And getting to work on things I’d previously let slide like bringing back the newsletters (which I know you didn’t notice were missing, I don’t kid myself!). For me at this stage of my life I realized that I can’t do a four to five hour daily commute anymore, yet I somehow coped and learnt a few things along the way.

Here are 5 Ways I Coped During My Year of Daily Commuting (Exhaustion!).

1. I didn’t beat myself up when I got home and ate dinner then went straight to bed without meditating (or exercising).

2. I tried to keep my morning routine with meditations, affirmations, visualization, journaling, and gratitude list. Sometimes I did it on the commuter train in the morning. I missed it entirely some days but I really noticed that I felt a lot better on the days when I could do it.

3. I replied to comments on facebook posts while I was on the commuter train (when I wasn’t sleeping!)

4. I wasn’t hard on myself for not having more energy to devote to creative projects and didn’t start any big new ones. Instead I followed the “do what you can” motto and did single sketches in my sketchbook or wrote one poem or guided meditation at a time.

5. I reminded myself and accepted that for now nothing was going to change, and felt more at peace, however when the job opportunity in my city of residence came up, I was ready and able to take action quickly.

And now here are 5 Things I Learnt During My Year of Daily Commuting (Exhaustion!)

1. I learned to be more gentle with myself

2. I learned that I need a lot more sleep than I used to!

3. I learned even more compassion for others in the same or similar situations, such as sleep deprived busy career women (and men).

4. I learned again just how much of a life line and saver a good morning routine can be.

5. And finally, I learned that transparency and openness are the best approach in explaining to your facebook group why you haven’t been participating and posting as much, and to your email list on why the newsletters stopped.

I’m very grateful for all of you who continue to enjoy reading what I write, and who kept participating in our facebook group even when there were a few occasions when I didn’t get to post on my theme days for a week or two at a time! My year of commuting and exhaustion reminded me of what so many of you go through daily and I hope will help me better serve your needs in my blogposts, the facebook group, and my offerings.