I meant to get a spring eZine out, and alas, time got the better of me. I’m just having to let go and let God on my communications, like I’m increasingly being with soooooo many things nowadays. A bit challenging for a recovering strategic planner with an uptight Doer … but such is life on… Read more »
Renee Sits with Christina Merkley Video: Visual Map: This is Very Good Summary: Renee is a dear colleague and client from my organizational development and facilitation years – we go way back. She in the United States, and myself in Canada. She’s one of the conscious leaders I’m privileged to hold space for behind the… Read more »
Hello from the west coast of Canada in rainy March. No real snow this winter; however, the rain is stubbornly consistent, as is customary for a temperate rain forest this time of year. When I go for walks, it’s dramatic, even gothic. Dripping in moody moss and stark sculptural branches. Atmospheric like the British novels… Read more »
Sophie Sits with Christina Merkley Video: Visual Map: Free Path Forward Summary: Whew, we cover a lot of physical and energetic terrain in this one! Sophie is a talented painter and muralist, who came for a Sit with Christina, after seeing a few of my YouTube Self Inquiry videos. A year ago, she started her… Read more »
It’s been a busy time. Anneke Lucas and I, with an amazing international cohort, just wrapped a 10-Week Processing Group. We worked right through the holidays, even on Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Offering community to Survivors through a period of time that is traditionally difficult. Tomorrow, we move into our Level 2 of Shifting… Read more »
Dolly Sits with Christina Merkley Video: ? Visual Map: Dancing Ancestors Summary: Dolly began her Sit with feeling LOST. During Covid, she had been able to focus on her innermost BEING and made plans. However, a return to a toxic work environment resulted in DEPRESSION, and the development of ticks and other symptomatic reactions. Thankfully,… Read more »
[Non-Dual Self Inquiry] Finding and Using My Voice – Diane Sits with Christina Merkley Video: Visual Map: Finding and Using My Voice Summary: A really beautiful Inquiry about the path of cultivating one’s voice. We begin with what is – meeting excitement in Diane’s Belly, and simultaneously a restriction in her Throat. Empathy arrives, then… Read more »
A nice respite. Enjoying the West Coast summer. Cheers! I celebrated my moon child birthday. I am conveniently bad with time, so they are amorphously blending into one another nowadays. My friends, even the doggedly left-brain ones, know not to remind me which one I’m on! I had a lovely time in Parksville on Vancouver… Read more »
Sliding into summer in the Pacific Northwest. Our backyard bank of St. John’s wort has erupted into a sea of yellow. Watching the first bloom emerge, then the winnowing down to the last. Such a wave of exuberant beauty that I delight in each year! The so-called little things in life that summon immense pleasure.… Read more »
[Non-Dual Self Inquiry] Luxury to Talk – Ana Sits with Christina Merkley Video: ? Visual Map: Luxury to Talk – Early Years Summary: We begin with what is – meeting Ana’s current relationship to motherhood. Sadness connected to her own desire and ambivalence, and a series of contradictions and polarities with her own mother. The… Read more »
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