by Marijke McCandless | Sep 11, 2023 | Uncategorized, Write
As a symbolic tool for introspection, tarot cards can help us transcend negative thinking and access our intuition. Add a meditative perspective on the tarot, and you have a recipe for deep healing. Spirituality and Health magazine has published another article of...
by Marijke McCandless | Mar 18, 2023 | Write
I’ve written a book called Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present. Today, I have been sitting here taking stock of my “successes” in meeting my professional goals of getting it and me “out there” Here’s what I can report: I didn’t finish...
by Marijke McCandless | May 23, 2022 | Write
The below is a piece I published in Illumination on Medium a couple years ago. Some of the references are out of date. (I no longer work as a program manager, for instance.) The theme, however, has come up a couple times in the last week and I thought I would...
by Marijke McCandless | May 7, 2022 | Write
Recently I led a workshop for the National Association of Memoir Writers, called “Exposing the Poetry of Presence in Memoir: Naked writing as a juicy practice for getting present.” Despite technical difficulties at the start–my computer completely...
by Marijke McCandless | Apr 14, 2022 | Write
A hundred of us were on a 3-day Outwild retreat for individuals looking to create more outdoor and value-driven lifestyles. On the afternoon of the second day, a large group of us sat at covered picnic tables at the Earth Trek retreat center nestled alongside the...
by Marijke McCandless | Feb 27, 2022 | Write
What excites me more than anything is what I like to call “juicy practices for getting present.” By this, I mean practices that arouse my curiosity, teach me to accept myself and the world as I find it and encourage me to experience moments of delight available right...
