Inner Bonding®
The greatest love story is the one where you embrace all of who you are, no matter what. Do not leave yourself when the going gets tough.
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a powerful key to living empowered and free inside the expanding and accelerating times of change and growth of our wild new world.
Extravagant Self-Love
Love and you–they are not and never were separate. It is only the mind that convinces us otherwise. Love is what everything is made of, so in truth the idea of self-love is just you remembering who you are.
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Interdependence Day
Let us evolve our awareness of freedom. Let us evolve out of a paradigm of independence into one of interdependence.
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Grit.
It turns out, grit represents not only the tools of erosion, but also the gifts of that erosion.
Full Participation Living
All of the issues we face as a culture come down to how we participate with life.
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Othering and Belonging
We stand with those rightfully demanding justice, equality, and transformation. We stand with anyone perceived as “other” or “different” everywhere.
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The Color of Belonging
Poetry helped me find words for all that is unfolding in the world right now. I invite you to paint a new canvas of belonging from your heart, instead of just your mind.
The Color of Belonging
by Astara
The canvas of belonging
in our culture
is painted with invisible ink.
We squint to find a key, cue,
or pattern
for how to belong
and where we belong.
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Upgrade, Empower, Embody, Connect
Radiant love and a multitude of healing blessings to all of you during these times of learning and challenge we are experiencing on our planet right now. There is a healthy path forward.
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Fool Moon
To make a heart-based decision might be at odds with our logic and reason, and feel quite risky, awkward, and downright scary. Our head might say, That is foolish! The Fool counsels you to reconsider.