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Start an Indulge in Self-Care Binge
Start an #IndulgeInSelfCareBinge! Max out on enough sleep, naps, healthy food, meditation, creative play, herb tea, visits with friends, fun, etc, not harmful overindulgences like junk food. Spread the word, use the hashtag, let’s get ourselves and friends happily healthy. … Continue reading
Happy Sunny Oil
I just finished making dandelion oil. This is a wonderful happy sunny event. Let me share my old herbal journal notes: May 5, 2007: Put fresh dandelion blossoms in safflower oil, in crockpot for maybe five hours. (I forgot it … Continue reading
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A Ten-Day Shamanic Treatment to Heal Your Body
This is a Distance Healing May 6 through May 17, I will do a ten-day ritual for healing the physical body. This shamanic treatment is a distance healing. No meeting required, not even by phone. I will take two days off … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Books, and Other News, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged community, Francesca De Grandis, heal, healing, ritual, shaman, shamanic, spiritual
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Wearing Joy: Talismanic Clothing
I am so happy that if I don’t share, I am going to burst. I am excited bc not only do i get to adorn moi, but my art has really taken a leap forward. For the first time in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged blend, blouse, dye, faerie, joy, silk
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Sugar Addiction and Mindfulness about Food
To give this post context, here is my personal definition of mindfulness about food, oversimplified for brevity. I have written it as an affirmation. As such, it expresses an ideal, which i strive toward but do not boast of achieving: … Continue reading
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My Pain Feather
Just finished this painting, My Pain Feather (a picture-poem) People ask my process with my art, so here is what happened with this piece: It started out not as piece unto itself but as a sketch of something that i … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged art, Francesca De Grandis, painting, picture poem, poem
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To entrepreneurs
To entrepreneurs whose high standards have been met with unkindness, Continue reading
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged appointment, art, arts, attacks, blog, classes, corporate, counseling, counselor teacher, cynicism, De Grandis, DeGrandis, entrepreneurs, ethical, excellence, Francesca, high, hurtful, industry, nnovative life-changing, services, shamanic, skills, standards, suspicion, Tools, unkindness
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Terror of Writing
Terror of Writing: A Secret of Successful Authors If you want to be a writer, but are too afraid, here is my suggestion: No matter how terrified you are about writing, write anyway. Don’t respond to me with, “You don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged author, block, Francesca De Grandis, successful, terror, writer, writer's life, writing
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Cat conquers scarf
My kitten is only about 4 & 1/2 months old, but she thinks she is King Kong.
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My Wish for You on Christmas and All Days
My Wish for You on Christmas and All Days A happy Christmas day to all. Whether you celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, as a social holiday, or not at all, may the day be “merry and bright.” Whether you … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, divine, fellowship, Francesca De Grandis, joy, love, religious, Wish
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