Nurture the Nature Connection: Five Ways to BE Outside
This has been called the Age of Anxiety. I can feel it, can you? Nature surreptitiously offers to be a healing balm. Below are five ways to spread it on...
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The Grove – Fear
This is officially the hardest post I’ve ever written. I somehow failed to realize that in challenging all of you to come here, open up and share...
Why I am Banned From WebMD
It happened about three weeks before we left for the field. My husband and I were lying in bed chatting about the day's events. I casually rolled over and unexpectedly...
Amplified
It started in sixth grade. “Why don’t you just pretend to play? Just move your fingers around, but don’t play.” She was our new...
Making space for Christmas {Book Club}
We made it. We made it to the end of our first Velvet Ashes book club book! But more than that, we made it to the cusp...
The Grove – Grateful
Ladies, the heartfelt dialogue that is happening daily here at Velvet Ashes, it's just really something to behold. The way you are showing up, opening up, and encouraging each...
A Community of Trees
My relationship with trees is complicated. Having grown up on the plains of North Dakota, I find comfort in the stark beauty of a treeless prairie affording...
Dream Unfurled
I was lonely. My feet were freshly planted in California sand, uprooted from the China life and community we knew. I was new and unknown, living...
