Oct. 16, 2020 — Here’s wishing a very restful and un-stressful weekend to you. To calm my own nerves and quiet my mind, once a week I go for what I’ve found to be an amazing antidote to worldy concerns: acupuncture. Practitioner Nancy Clark somehow recharges my battery and bolsters my immune system, along the way sharing new and old world wisdom like a living, breathing encyclopedia of self care. It’s wonderful.
This week, going in, I told Nancy that my head felt like a pinball machine, with all the anxious thoughts pinging around up there. Then, at the end of the session, I sighed, “Ahh, how to stay this serene way without a dozen tiny, well-placed needles in me?!” Nancy advised, “Keep doing what you’re doing — coming here, hosting Cardie Yoga, petting your dog, baking those little loaves of lemon blueberry bread you so love sending off in care packages, and maybe spend more time meditating or praying.” Then she summed up so beautifully,
“Now is a time when we all need to do
everything possible to soothe our souls.”
Below you’ll see our plans for a restorative weekend. If you’d kindly care to share, we’d love to read some of YOUR self-soothing ways, Cardies.
Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative
petting.
baking.
praying.
Exercise is the way I choose to soothe my soul. A 10 mile walk today should do it. Normally my walks are 7 miles. However, at this time I need a little extra soothing.
We are having the perfect fall day in Pennsylvania today. Highs of about 60 and the most sun-shiny day. I spent part of the day planting tulips for spring (that’s hopeful, right?) and tackled a few chores around the house that I’ve been putting off, so I’m feeling a high sense of accomplishment. Now I’m sitting on my porch enjoying a cup of hot tea and some gingersnaps. It’s a good Saturday!
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” ~John Burroughs