by Jesua | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured 2, Musings From A Prayerful Heart
My little boy only wants Sanskrit mantras sung to him as he falls asleep. “Please Mama, sing me the Sanskrit ones?” he says, as he scoots back his 7 year old body into my spooning embrace, finding his trustworthy bridge into dream. My little budding woman-child wants...
by Jesua | Dec 21, 2015 | Musings From A Prayerful Heart
A couple of nights ago I woke in the middle of the night from a terrifying dream, with my heart pounding, my mouth still mouthing the emotional words I had been saying in my dream, stress hormones coursing through my body. In the dream I had just been diagnosed with...
by Jesua | Dec 21, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
I’ll always remember the day my son Ezra Star renounced our well-loved tradition of cutting down a tree for Christmas time. It was last year, early December, Arayla was 9 at the time, and Ezra was newly 6. We arrived at our favorite, old-fashioned Christmas Tree Farm...
by Jesua | Oct 25, 2015 | Musings From A Prayerful Heart
I’ve been in a very deep inner dialogue with Life recently, soul-searching and heart-stretching, and while it’s difficult and vulnerable to put into words for you all, I’m still compelled to try. Not long ago I noticed that I was walking around with what felt like a...
by Jesua | Oct 20, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
Recently Arayla (10.5) and I went through her entire bedroom for the first time in years, clearing out clothes and de-cluttering toys and books that were no longer relevant for her rapidly transforming being. It was quite a task, and took over a week to complete. The...