Balance

I was of many minds on the Friday afternoon in the Fall of 2021 as I drove into Joy Hollow Girl Scout Camp to prepare for the upcoming weekend immersive outdoor retreat, “On Common Ground.” The collaborative intersection of the arts and sciences had been two years in the making, with the Covid-19 pandemic wrenching […]

Your overall mental state is determined by your mental diet. In the same way that the state of your body is determined mainly by the food you eat, the state of your inner world is a function of the mental food you consume—what you think. In the context of thought power, we can say that

Up From the Earth is beginning its 10th growing season and is celebrating as gardeners and farmers grow extra garden produce to share through our collection sites and pantries! We made the connections, and this amazing community has stepped up to work together to meet the needs. Our program has evolved to meet the needs

Question: “I have heard of the importance of letting my feelings ‘be there’ but wonder at what point am I giving feelings such as depression and anxiety too much attention.  I am afraid I will get stuck in negativity.” Dear Reader,  This is actually a common exploration that happens in therapy.  The theories I work

Question: My son is a teenager and has been moodier lately, skipping school, hanging with the wrong crowd, and smoking pot daily. He says it helps him calm down, cope with his anxiety, and concentrate. I did the same thing when I was his age, only I ended up in and out of juvenile detention

Summer, the season of the heart, illuminates as the culmination of our Attunement with the Seasons series, which brings us to this element: fire. As always, ancient medicine provides sound guidance in embracing, understanding, and absorbing the medicine of the heart through its season. Kathy Jensen of Mind & Body Connection in Sioux City sheds