April 2018

Discovering Beauty

April 25, 2018Leave a comment

Discovering Beauty Around, Within, and Always! with Rachel Awes

Have you ever wondered how to simply BE YOU? To discover the innate beauty and magnificence within you? Listen in as Dr. Julie and Rachel Awes invite you to authentically be your fullest self.  Imagine being treasured — simply for the rise and fall of your chest, the dreams in your heart, and the distinct YOU — who you miraculously off the world every gloriously messy day!

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Rachel Awes works as a psychologist, art playgroundist, and author, who loves listening to the beauty in people and animals and all living colors—and she truly embodies color, as she is also an ambassador for the Swedish clothing company, Gudrun Sjoden. She is currently working on her fourth book, a fiction story about the importance of showing up as yourself in this world, for middle grade readers and for everyone’s inner child. Her prior writing has been nonfiction prose, infused with loads of her colorful drawings, all designed to affirm the human heart. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and tortoises, complete with wild bunnies in her yard, and is a recent evolving nester, with her 19 and 21-year-old college-attending sons, living at home in between semesters and adventures. Her most tender and mighty hope is to hold up a mirror for many, reflecting a hearty truth of your boundless worth. You can see more from Rachel at her website at rachelawes.com and her books and art prints at rachelawes.etsy.com.

A New Republic of the Heart

April 7, 2018Leave a comment

A New Republic of the Heart with Terry Patten

In the midst of today’s global crises, many of us are disheartened. We recognize the need for radical change, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions, but we don’t how to enact it. Terry Patten provides a practical approach to “being the change” that begins with the individual and yet can affect the whole system, as inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. Wholeness has potent agency. In our age of fragmentation, the most subversive things we can do are to embody love, integrity, and practice.

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Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. He is the author, most recently, of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.