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Happy Summer!

Glorious words in the northlands!!  After a brutal winter, summer days of sunshine and warmth are welcome! There’s something really special about long days of sunlight, sipping lemonade and a bit slower pace.  Enjoy your summer … and we’ll be back in touch on this blog when the autumn leaves begin turning.

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I recently received an e-mail about this … I thought it was interesting enough to post on my “Women as Healers” blog. 
“I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was about the mind-body connection – the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of the psychiatry department at Stanford) said [...]

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Spring Fever!

Spring has been slow to come to Minnesota this year … and now it is finally in its glory! 
I love sitting outside to work, listening to the birds and soaking up sunshine … I wait all year for these special days!  Absolutely lovely … and wonderful for creative energy!  I feel so blessed.

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A long-awaited break … ahhhhhhh!!  It is so important to take some vacation and as a friend recently reminded me, “A long weekend is not a vacation!!” So, vacation time is here … my plan is to return refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated. A nice way to begin springtime in Minnesota…

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Each One Teach Five

I have blogged a couple of times about the Empowerment Mentorship that I participated in, connected to the World Pulse’s Voices of Our Future program. My mentee, Nilima, has successfully completed the four assignments…she did a great job with each of them! Her last assignment was writing a feature story and it is quite interesting. [...]

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Twitter is a window into people’s lives all over the world. You can follow me on Twitter to know more about what is going on daily with Women as Healers. These “tweets” are short (140 characters) and concise.  Sign up here to follow me at @WomenAsHealers.

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The next “Women as Healers” presentation is for the Minnesota Women in Psychology in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I will be speaking/playing on April 29 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
We will use stories from the anthology, Women as Healers: Voices of Vibrancy, for insights, motivation and encouragement.

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I’ve had the opportunity to speak and play at the Mayo Clinic numerous times. They host many national conferences each year and to be included on their speaking roster is always an honor at this world-class facility in my “back yard.”
Befriending some of the Mayo staff has also been very fun and mutually rewarding. From [...]

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Scrapbooking!

What does scrapbooking have to do with “Women as Healers”?  Well, a couple of weekends ago, I spent some time with dear friends in a small town west of Minneapolis. They told me about how they LOVE to scrapbook and how scrapbooking retreats are now the “in” thing!!
Isn’t this one more way for women to [...]

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In 1987, I had a marvelous, unique experience of living in Kyoto, Japan. So you can imagine the news of Japan getting hit by a major earthquake and tsunami deeply impacted me. I immediately thought of my six host families and all the students I met and taught. Are they safe and out of harms way?  [...]

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