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Ferocious Warmth for Chilling Times

May 2, 2025 By Angela Watrous

  Hello, dearest. Today I’m feeling into the power of fire, sending up a flare, calling you to gather with me on May 17 to begin cultivating Ferocious Warmth for Chilling Times. Today is Beltane, the Celtic beginning of summer, traditionally celebrated around a bonfire. Today is also May Day, an international celebration of labor solidarity. This day […]

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Spring Ancestral Healing Circle starts on Monday!

January 28, 2025 By Angela Watrous

Healing Our Ancestral Past is Essential to Transforming Our Present and Future   Good morning, dearest! This is your last chance to sign up for our Spring Ancestral Lineage Healing Circle—an 8-session journey into resourcing yourself by invoking ritual clearing and protection, connecting with bigger-than-human supportive powers, and unburdening yourself and your living family through ancestral healing. […]

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Resourcing Ourselves for What’s Ahead

January 1, 2025 By Angela Watrous

Dearests, as we wake to this new year, we know there are many challenges ahead. We are all being called to show up with our full presence and step into the fulfillment of our heart’s and our soul’s purpose in this life. It’s time for resourcing.  Registration opens today for my Spring Ancestral Lineage Healing […]

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How time travel can heal ourselves, our relationships, and our world

September 17, 2024 By Angela Watrous

People release hundreds of floating lanterns into the sky, and they are reflecting in the surrounding waters.

Dearest, it’s never too late for repair, because—as both physicists and healers know—time is nonlinear: past, present, and future are happening simultaneously, everything everywhere all at once. When I feel into the healing possibilities of nonlinear time, I think about how my reiki teacher’s teacher says she survived (survives) her childhood trauma because of all the […]

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What’s really happening when you’re hard on yourself?

August 18, 2024 By Angela Watrous

Spiral labyrinth made of stones on the coast at the sunset.

  Hello, dear one! Have you ever wondered why you’re hard on yourself when you most need compassion? The truth is, we learn how to treat ourselves by the way we’re treated in our early experiences. This is an unconscious developmental process that shapes our brain and nervous system. By the time you were four […]

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