Celebrating Wild Gratitude’s 10th Anniversary!
Time to Celebrate! TEN Years of Wild Gratitude! Big milestones! Ten years ago on November 1st, I officially registered Wild Gratitude LLC as a business, AND ten years ago on November […]
Healing the Loneliness Epidemic: Small Group Workshops for Social Connection
The Loneliness Epidemic This year, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the United States Surgeon General, made a public advisory about an “Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”. He states that “approximately half of […]
Chronic Illness: The Stamina to Keep Caring
World ME/CFS Awareness Day is May 12th. This time three years ago, I shared about having ME/CFS and how I make meaning in it. The reality is that this is […]
Cycles of Creativity: Little Brier Rose
Little Brier Rose – Cycles of Creativity Link to the story of Little Brier Rose and others of this tale type: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html Meaning of the Spindle The spindle is a […]
The Seven Ravens: Integrating the Spiritual Life
Original artwork by Stacey Couch © 2022 Summary The wisdom for the spiritual life that the fairytale “The Seven Ravens” teaches is: How to integrate your spiritual life into your daily […]
Releasing Emotions that Won’t Go
Repressing Emotions is Unhealthy A practice of releasing emotions before they build up can be helpful. Why is this? Because stuffing difficult emotions is harmful to our health. The bottled […]
Princess and the Pea Story: Valuing Sensitivity
Princess and the Pea Story The Princess and the Pea story is a tale about a young woman who is too sensitive… Right? This sensitivity seems to get her in […]
Finding Accessibility
Seeking Accessibility Yes, that’s me … in a wheelchair. I’m still getting used to the idea. I came to a point of no longer being able to leave the house. […]
A Call to Slow Down
Photo: Stacey Couch and her horse “Isabeau”. Photo credit: Estella O’Connell Hiding Behind the Teaching My career began centered around a memoir. My story opened up doors to spiritual insights. […]
In Memory, Cherokee the Mustang
In Memory, Cherokee the Mustang Eleven years ago, when I first met Cherokee I went to touch her. She turned and walked away. Weeks later, my husband asked about the […]
Find the Right Timing for Healing
Is time linear, circular or parallel? Depending on our perspective, we may be influencing our own healing. Chronos: Linear Time Regardless of the spelling, the name Chronus/Cronus/Khornos/Chronos, is associated with […]
Kneeling at the Hearth
First thing every morning throughout five or six months of the year, I build and light a fire in my fireplace. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to stay in bed past […]
A Duckling Rescue Story
I had a thought provoking comment on my blog about Dove Spirit Animal today from a fellow who was moving across the country and took a wild mourning dove with […]
Are You Good at Being Compassionate?
Discovering Your Capacity for Being Compassionate About two years ago I added two questions to my intake form for new clients. I put the questions on my intake forms to learn more […]
The Seriousness of Solitude
I was brought to tears this morning by the most surprising of lines in a book: “I see more and more that solitude is not something to play with. It […]
How To: Finding Soul Friendship
In my article on red-tailed hawk spirit animal I encourage people to identify and connect with their tribe and for good reason. You may be surprised to learn that many people I […]
Problem Solving for the Soul
We adore logic. For many of us, we enter our spiritual practice with the fervor of a crime investigator trying to solve the mysteries of our lives, especially our past […]
The Pope and Our Sister, Mother Earth
Pope Francis is making news by acknowledging that climate change is an urgent situation we must all face. The bigger breakthrough that news stations and bloggers are missing altogether is the […]
