by Anne Peek | Jul 24, 2025 | affinity, aging, ambiguity, artistic expression, balance, breath, communication, connection, creativity, earth, expansion, heart, imagination, life-giving, listening, modern life, mystery, overwhelm, practice, self-care, spirit, vulnerability, words
So much swirling these days, within me as much as without. (Aging is not fun! Except sometimes it is.) Change is happening so incessantly and so fast that I’m forced to practice literally touching the earth, the natural world, in order to counteract the sense that the...
by Anne Peek | Nov 30, 2024 | ambiguity, archetypes, artistic expression, autumn, balance, connection, darkness, earth, heart, imagination, life-giving, listening, nature, practice, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, shadow, spirit, transformation, Uncategorized, vulnerability, wildness
…This season, for me, is always a time to think about change and transformation, about all the ways in which we might allow the long, cold dark to strip us down to the bones of who we are. Every year, letting winter strip us bare; letting the final leaves that...
by Anne Peek | Mar 12, 2024 | affinity, ambiguity, archetypes, balance, body wisdom, connection, counterculture, earth, expansion, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, joy, life-giving, light, listening, magic, memoir, mind, modern life, mystery, possibilities, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, senses, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, tears, transformation, wonder
In times like these, it’s easy to give in to despair and hopelessness. In addition to witnessing and speaking out against all that is heartbreaking and unjust, maybe we also need to share experiences that contradict the cultural story, foster hope, and reveal the...
by Anne Peek | Nov 22, 2022 | ambiguity, autumn, connection, creativity, expansion, heart, holidays, intuition, modern life, possibilities, self-care, self-reflection, senses, shadow, shoulds, spirit, tarot, values, vision
I’ve always loved Thanksgiving. I loved the food, the emphasis on gratitude and harvest, and the gathering with family and/or friends during a time of increasing cold and darkness. I never believed or highlighted the national myth around the holiday in these...
by Anne Peek | Mar 2, 2022 | ambiguity, artistic expression, balance, body wisdom, communication, conflict, connection, creativity, darkness, dreams, heart, imagination, intuition, life-giving, listening, possibilities, self-reflection, senses, shadow, soul, spirit, transformation, Uncategorized, vision, war, words, writing
There are several topics I intend to explore here in the coming months, but the war in Ukraine has dissolved my words right now. I’m so weary of eons of glorified dominance and control. Which leaves me sadly subdued. When I’m not weary, I’m angry. Or in some kind of...
by Anne Peek | Nov 14, 2020 | affinity, ambiguity, artistic expression, balance, beauty, breath, clearing, conflict, darkness, expansion, heart, imagination, life-giving, light, listening, modern life, pandemic, planning, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, senses, shadow, soul, transformation, Uncategorized, vision
I’m feeling tired and oddly amorphous these days. Coherent thought, linear planning—even “soft” planning—is elusive. I’m trying to be patient as I dance with physical challenges and house clearing that feels endless. Yet most of the time I also feel...