http://giawaken.com Awaken Your Inner Healer Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:38:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://giawaken.com/2012/04/pilgrimage/ http://giawaken.com/2012/04/pilgrimage/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:36:11 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=6050 I’m going on a pilgrimage, and have agreed to give up something of great value to me. Right now, it’s all swirling in my head. This is spring, a time of rebirth, newness, and growth. Perfect timing. A pilgrimage is a journey to a place of great value. I am going within, on a great 12-month scavenger hunt to collect all the parts of me I have left by the wayside, and rebuild my life Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/04/pilgrimage/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/03/criticism/ http://giawaken.com/2012/03/criticism/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:52:05 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=6030 Yesterday I had the most wonderful time at a writer’s group. I was productive, ate great quiche, met other writers, and enjoyed being with other people who spend all day writing or thinking about writing. Best of all, after working, we took turns reading some of what we’d written: two memoirs, a poem, a YA novel, and my nonfiction. And then we all commented on each other’s work. This is where my warm fuzzies went Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/03/criticism/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/03/knock-wood/ http://giawaken.com/2012/03/knock-wood/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:30:51 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=6009 Yesterday I found myself consulting with a wonderful doctor. (Due to ironic school regulations, I had to drag a kid out of his sick bed to have someone else say, “Yep, he has a virus and should be resting.”) Here’s what struck me. Each time I said something positive (and true) like, “My kids rarely get sick,” she said, “Knock wood.” (And yes, she reached out and knocked on something.) Remember that? From childhood? What a Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/03/knock-wood/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/03/welcoming-aries-the-spark-of-daring/ http://giawaken.com/2012/03/welcoming-aries-the-spark-of-daring/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:41:31 +0000 Guest Author http://giawaken.com/?p=6017 “I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule.” I’ve just returned from facilitating another Radiant Life Retreat in Ojai, California. We dove deep and broke through to new, rich ground. What moved me deeply was the moment each woman chose to bust through into new territory. Can you imagine what it takes for a seedling to burst through the soil after winter? These women summoned everything they had to get a glimpse of Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/03/welcoming-aries-the-spark-of-daring/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/03/intuition-is-not-scary/ http://giawaken.com/2012/03/intuition-is-not-scary/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:13:46 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=5659 As a healer, I often meet others who are weirded out about their intuitive gifts. I get desperate emails from strangers asking what to do because they see double numbers on the clock all the time, or feel other people’s emotions, or know what people are about to say, or know what will happen later (and it does). Some see faces in windows or sense what they think are ghosts or spirits. They dream about Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/03/intuition-is-not-scary/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/03/sign-what-does-it-mean/ http://giawaken.com/2012/03/sign-what-does-it-mean/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:07:12 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=5962 Just went to the cabinet to get out some tea. When I opened it, one box jumped out at me and kerplunked on the counter. Kombucha. Detoxing tea. (What do you think? Anything meaningful there?) “It means I’m supposed to have that kind of tea!” exclaimed one corner of my mind. Hmm. I have been feeling a little under the weather with a cold in the last two days. So I asked my body if it Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/03/sign-what-does-it-mean/feed/ 2 http://giawaken.com/2012/02/how-to-get-more-done-in-a-day/ http://giawaken.com/2012/02/how-to-get-more-done-in-a-day/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:15:54 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=5989 ~ Daria’s Wednesday Wisdom column ~ How do you begin your day? For most of my life, I jumped right into a task as soon as I walked in my office. I felt like I was getting more done that way! When that task was done, I zipped on to the next one. Then I took lots of little (or not so little) breaks because I was working so hard. (Well, it made sense at Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/02/how-to-get-more-done-in-a-day/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/02/welcoming-pisces/ http://giawaken.com/2012/02/welcoming-pisces/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:59:14 +0000 Guest Author http://giawaken.com/?p=5975 My yoga teacher, Sofia Diaz, recently described the difference between intensity and pain in our daily practice. She said intensity was like a low hum in the body, stretching us to our limits and asking us to let go into something greater than ourselves. Pain is sharp and sudden and an obvious indication we should stop what we are doing. Many of us mistake intensity for pain. We pull back when we should drop further Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/02/welcoming-pisces/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/02/power/ http://giawaken.com/2012/02/power/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:35:35 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=5941 What is power? How would you define it? Recently I read this definition: “Though power most often refers to the ability to influence people (Guerrero, DeVito & Hecht, 1999, p. 314), power is also related to dominance and status (Guerrero, DeVito & Hecht, 1999, p. 315)…” Hunh? I spend all day focusing on empowering my clients and myself, but I’ve always thought of power as the ability to create healing changes, the kind of power Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/02/power/feed/ 0 http://giawaken.com/2012/02/clear-pain-burnout-fast/ http://giawaken.com/2012/02/clear-pain-burnout-fast/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:20:30 +0000 By Daria Boissonnas http://giawaken.com/?p=5930 On Friday I attended a writer’s retreat and I am still floating. Because I am a writer. It’s my life purpose, the way I fulfill my divine contract. When I returned, I was quite surprised to find the pain from a recent horrible relationship blowup had all but disappeared. This was a situation where for two weeks I was so preoccupied that I kept forgetting things and taking wrong turns while driving. It reminded me Read the Rest...]]> http://giawaken.com/2012/02/clear-pain-burnout-fast/feed/ 0