Rejuvenating Rituals | Julia Gibran

Rejuvenating Rituals

For as long as I can remember there was an altar or ritual space in my home growing up: in my mother’s closet, on my grandparent’s dresser, in my dad’s bedroom. Each person had a version of sacred space they would return to daily to contemplate, meditate or cry at.  Nothing elaborate or ornate, nothing

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Summertime Sadness: Seasonal Grief and Patterns of Mourning

Summertime Sadness: Seasonal Grief and Patterns of Mourning

Summer is here and is rightfully heralded as a time of joy, freedom, and expression! While that’s wonderful, I often see the opposite for many folks struggling with losses, ailing animals, caregiver stress, sandwiched care, burnout, or flat affect. The heat can be healing but it is also a furnace that can ignite dormant embers

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Let’s Pop With Pride

Let’s Pop With Pride

It’s June people and we are ready to celebrate all of queerdom! I am lucky to have been blessed in both same-sex and hetero-sex relationships. It wasn’t and still isn’t, easy owning this as a brown, first-generation Guyanese Canadian of Indian Ancestry. For those of y’all unfamiliar with the West Indian vibe, it can be

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