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Cultivating Mindfulness for What Is.

12/12/2017

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 Have you ever not wanted a moment to end? Perhaps it was enjoying the luxury of your morning coffee before you had to run to work, an evening out laughing with friends, a delicious holiday in the sun, holding a sleeping baby, or maybe a moment of surrendered calm for no apparent reason at all.

I recently had an experience like this when I was on retreat for a week in California, where I got to take a break from the city, enjoy spacious meditations each day, watch the sun rise from the desert hilltops, and just generally take good and loving care of my mind, body, and spirit. It felt like heaven, and was an incredibly welcome break from the Vancouver rain and the background buzz and stress that sometimes can set in from city living. I found myself feeling deeply connected to my own heart and at home in my body from this reset.


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Fear, Excitement, & the Creative Spirit

4/22/2016

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​Despite intentionally practicing radical self-love and self-compassion for a while now, I find myself from time to time dipping into some serious self-doubt, insecurity, and fear.

Lately, I’ve noticed more of a predictable pattern around these feelings: Fear usually comes around most strongly when I’m about to cross a new ‘frontier’ and push my comfort zone. It often makes a sneaky entry, and at first looks and feels a lot like excitement and enthusiasm.

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Dreaming Big & Embracing the Unknown

4/20/2016

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​How might the world shift if we each shared our bold, unique, and daring ideas and dreams more freely? With wild abandon, even?? 

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In my dream last night a woman came to tell me that a new idea - shared and acted - has the power to change the world. 

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Forget About Enlightenment 

1/1/2016

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A poem, by John Welwood

Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins. 
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones. 
Open your heart to who you are, right now, 
Not who you would like to be, 
Not the saint you are striving to become, 
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. 
All of you is holy. 
You are already more and less 
Than whatever you can know. 
Breathe out, 
Touch in, 
Let go. 

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Turning Towards Beauty

12/26/2015

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Painting by Carol Bennett
“Whenever you’ve witnessed great pain and suffering, make sure to also witness something beautiful before the end of the day.” 
-Margaret O'Donnell
After I finished university I worked for a year with a group called the Oasis Society for Spiritual Health. Oasis works with people who are homeless and newly housed in downtown Victoria BC, and support people’s spiritual and human-connection needs by offering a space to gather, share from the heart in talking circles, and cook and eat together

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Be Gentle with You: How to have Compassion for Painful Emotions

12/19/2015

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Expansion: wax sculpture by Paige Bradley

"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
​-Leonard Cohen
​Earlier this week I had coffee with a friend who was telling me about a relationship struggle he’s been experiencing. He expressed feelings of shame, anger, sadness, confusion, longing – all the emotions that usually accompany a broken heart. Ones that I am no stranger to, either. After chatting for a while, he asked me what I thought he should do to help him navigate these ‘messy emotions’.
 
I said, be gentle with yourself. 
 
What does that even mean? He replied. How do I do that?

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    Sarah Jarvis is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, psychotherapist, & teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion. This blog is a space to share practices, ideas, and experiences to heal, inspire, awaken, empower, and recognize ourselves in one another. 

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