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Season of Light: Celebrating the Soul of Winter

Nov 30, 2021 ● By Marlaina Donato

Winter has its own jewel-toned beauty that rivals summer’s most dazzling hour if we pay attention.

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Join Trinergy Health for an Afternoon of Gratitude

Oct 31, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

Trinergy Health, a center for integrative psychiatry, Ayurvedic wellness and spa services, will host its free annual Holiday Open House from 3 to 6 p.m., November 13.

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Entrepreneur for Kids Uses Art to Envision Jobs of the Future

Oct 31, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

Heather Eiden, an art education specialist and childcare teacher at Milwaukee Montessori School, will lead Entrepreneur for Kids, an interactive art event on Dec. 11.

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The Healing Power of a Hug

Oct 29, 2021 ● By Marlaina Donato

Hugs have proven power to soothe and nurture us, and it’s not necessary to have another human to enjoy their physical and mental health benefits.

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Dying Well: Four Steps to a Good Death

Oct 29, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Proactive, concrete steps that ease dying—getting clear on our values and desires, having important conversations, attending to final decisions and opening to our spiritual process.

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The Quiet Power of Intuition

Sep 30, 2021 ● By Marlaina Donato

Having strong intuition can enable us to not only endure, but prosper. Adopting these simple habits and activities can help us to foster our intuitive inner voices.

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Readings By Celeste Offers Straightforward, Practical Advice and Insight

Sep 30, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

Rev. Celeste Lipsey is a metaphysical practitioner who offers an array of psychic and intuitive consultations and tarot card readings in Milwaukee and virtually.

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Aesthetically Well Hosts Educational Skin Care Event

Sep 30, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

Maggie Schaetzel, aesthetician, licensed holistic nutritionist and owner of Aesthetically Well in Milwaukee, will lead an educational Q&A event on Oct. 16, to teach people about holistic beauty care.

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Celebrate PridetoberFest

Sep 30, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

On Oct. 8 from 3 p.m. to midnight, and Oct. 9 from noon to midnight, Milwaukee Pride Inc. will host PridetoberFest, a scaled-back version of the popular June festival PrideFest.

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The Power of the Written Note

Aug 31, 2021 ● By Julie Peterson

Sending off a quick message by email or text comes easy enough, but a handwritten note ensures the recipient will feel appreciated by the time and effort it took.

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MKE River Roundup and Brew City Kayak Bring Music to the Open Water

Aug 31, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

The MKE River Roundup is a weekly concert series on the Milwaukee River. From 5 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday until the end of September, a musical act will perform on the "Funktoon."

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Smiling Can Make Us Happier

Jul 30, 2021 ● By Julie Peterson

The benefits of smiling including increased happiness, reduced stress and anxiety, lowered blood pressure and heart rate and less pain.

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Local Food Writer Explores the Bounties of Wisconsin in New Book

Jul 30, 2021 ● By Natural Awakenings Milwaukee

Wisconsin Farms and Farmers Markets: Tours, Trails and Attractions, the latest book by local food writer Kristine Hansen, is a colorful profile of the agritourism opportunities that abound throughout Wisconsin.

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Mycelium Mysteries Conference

Jun 30, 2021

The fifth annual Mycelium Mysteries Conference, focusing on all things in the mushroom world, will be presented in person on September 25, 26 and 27, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

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The Power of Playfulness

Jun 30, 2021 ● By Marlaina Donato

Research shows that playtime is good for the soul and provides benefits like reduced depression, stronger emotional resilience and higher productivity. Here are fun ideas for adult play.

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Simple Acts Can Change the World

May 28, 2021 ● By Julie Peterson

It’s easy to feel small and helpless in a world full of big problems, but there are simple, daily actions we can take to change it for the better.

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Milwaukee Film Moves Popular Festival to Spring

Apr 30, 2021

The 13th annual Milwaukee Film Festival, presented by Associated Bank, will be held this spring, May 6 through 20—a change from its usual October dates.

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Three Steps for Facing Difficult Emotions

Apr 30, 2021 ● By Shauna Shapiro

We can build resiliency and find greater clarity, calm and well-being when facing change, uncertainty and stress with these three key steps using mindfulness and compassion.

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Light Therapy, Healing and the Power of Love

Mar 31, 2021 ● By Peig Myota

This article describes the benefits of integrating light therapy, loving intention and soul-centered mentoring to achieve cellular DNA healing and awakened consciousness.

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Create a Nurturing Nest

Mar 31, 2021 ● By Marlaina Donato

Home is a harbor of habit, and breaking out of the usual routine can be transformative. Here are some activities to transform living spaces into nurturing sources of inspiration.

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Healing from Grief: Four Ways to Find Peace

Feb 26, 2021 ● By Jasmin Jenkins

How to discover the light side of grief and identify and embrace the invitations that lay within its deep layers to find inner peace and healing.

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Becoming Heart-Minded

Jan 29, 2021 ● By Sarah Blondin

Meditation teacher Sarah Blondin explains how drawing our attention inward and focusing on our heart center can help us become more kind, calm, loving, accepting, inspired and creative.

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Myofascial Release Therapist Looks Beyond Symptoms

Dec 30, 2020 ● By Sheila Julson

Helping people become mobile and pain-free motivates Dave Vollmers every day, helping his patients achieve a better quality of life.

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House Blessings for Clearing and Protecting Spaces

Dec 30, 2020 ● By Marlaina Donato

Ways to bless and welcome positive energy into a new house, office or other space with smudging sage, prayers, seasonal flowers, essential oils, crystals, singing bowls and more.

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Coaching Humans 
Back to Humanity: Local Undertaking Builds 
Global Inspiration

Nov 27, 2020 ● By Jordan Peschek

Most of us can agree that 2020 has not fit the classic definition of easy. But even before the pandemic, our world has been out of balance.

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Healthy Society for All
A New Story for the World: Re-Visioning the Script for a Healthier Society and Planet

Nov 27, 2020 ● By Linda Sechrist

A revolutionary new way of viewing the world and our place in it points to a future that regenerates the natural environment and reinforces our essential interconnectedness.

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Fresh Rituals for a New Year

Nov 27, 2020

Here are several New Year’s rituals to help us connect more deeply to our loved ones, to ourselves and to a richer sense of purpose as we embrace the promise of 2021.

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An Eckankar Soul Adventure Seminar Online: The Power of Gratitude

Oct 30, 2020

Eckankar’s free Soul Adventure Seminar, online through November 30, explores a secret to spiritual living that can help create a rich and fulfilling life.

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Giving Thanks: Meditation on Gratitude and Joy

Oct 30, 2020 ● By Jack Kornfield

Bestselling author, Buddhist practitioner and mindfulness practice teacher Jack Kornfield offers a meditation that opens our hearts to gratitude and joy this holiday season.

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Staying Connected Virtually During the Pandemic
Coronavirus as a Calling

Sep 30, 2020 ● By Gregg Levoy

The pandemic can be transmuted into golden opportunities if we look for purpose and meaning in it. Here are four ways to respond to the call of these turbulent times.

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Happiness Helpers: Five Ways to Be More Positive

Aug 31, 2020 ● By Brad Aronson

We can choose to see things in a more positive fashion by taking these 5 steps to train our brains to look for the good more often, leading to increased levels of happiness.

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How Awe Can Transform Our Lives

Jul 31, 2020 ● By Jonah Paquette

Feeling a sense of awe provides many physical, mental and spiritual health and wellness benefits. Here are some ways we can find and elicit more awe-inspiring moments in our daily life.

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Cultivating Contentment: The Spiritual Discipline of Evoking Joy

Jun 30, 2020 ● By Marlaina Donato

Tending to our own happiness begins by seeing joy not as a mood dependent upon circumstances, but as a spiritual discipline like any other. Here are ways to create more joyous moments.

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Spiritual Medium and Tutor Mavis Pittilla Makes Rare Visit to Wisconsin

Jun 01, 2020

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from a highly regarded, experienced medium with more than 50 years of experience in mediumship.

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WonderSpirit Soul Sistering Presents Catholic Around the Edges Online Course

Jun 01, 2020

This course leads one through a process of creating a personal spirituality, after a faith crisis or spiritual awakening takes one outside official church teachings.

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Fathers Know Best

May 29, 2020 ● By Neal Allen

Dads have a habit of imposing their own success goals on their kids, but letting go of this can lead to a greater emphasis on what children really need—love, kindness and strength.

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Finding Calm During Trying Times

Apr 16, 2020 ● By Laurie Nadel

How the global pandemic can serve as our spiritual wake-up call to learn how different traditions heal from life-shattering events.

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Making Luck: An Intentional Path to Good Fortune

Mar 31, 2020 ● By Carol Kline

Research shows that we can, and in fact already do make our own luck. Here's how to quickly, with a little conscious attention, change your luck.

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Living In Synchronicity: The Power of Meaningful Coincidence

Feb 28, 2020

Synchronicities link us to an underlying order in the universe that is profoundly reassuring. Here are ways to encourage these moments to show up within our lives.

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Choosing Love: How to Cope With Fearful Times

Jan 31, 2020

Scarlett Lewis, the mother of a 6-year-old killed during the Sandy Hook tragedy, explains how we can choose love instead of fear in response to the anxiety and suffering in today’s world.

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Tidying Up The Bucket List: Deciding What We Really Want

Dec 30, 2019

Many people have a bucket list of things they want to make sure they experience. Tidying up that bucket list when it no longer reflects a person’s values and deepest desires makes sense.

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The Emerging Power of ‘We’: Awakening to the Evolution of Community

Nov 27, 2019

In this time of climate and societal problems, intentional communities that challenge the “It’s all about me” culture are pointing the way to collective solutions that can save the planet.

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The Generous Heart: How Giving Transforms Us

Nov 27, 2019

When we give to others, whether it’s an act of kindness, generosity or compassion, it helps us live from the heart instead of the ego.

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Holiday Folk Fair International Celebrates Cultures of the World

Nov 03, 2019

The 76th annual Holiday Folk Fair International, America’s premier multicultural festival celebrating cultural heritages of those living in southeastern Wisconsin, takes place Nov. 22-24.

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Colors & Chords Fundraiser Pairs Musicians, Artists

Nov 03, 2019

Colors & Chords, an event that celebrates music and art by pairing bands with prominent local artists live onstage for a 30-minute set, is being held on November 22.

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Nationally Recognized Mind-Body Pattern Shifter to Speak at Angel Light

Oct 01, 2019

The Power of Your Walk, at Angel Light Center for the Healing Arts, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on October 12, where participants will learn about core obstacles holding them back in life.

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Wellness, Body, Mind & Spirit Expo Offers Something for Everyone

Oct 01, 2019

This bi-annual event that brings together like-minded providers of holistic living, spirituality and alternative healing returns to Four Points by Sheraton Milwaukee North Shore on Oct. 20.

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Fairy Magic: Feeling Their Touch in Nature

Aug 30, 2019

Fairies are the heart and soul of living nature. To enter into a profound relationship with fairies, first we must believe in them—we must make-believe.

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Loving Ourselves Madly: Practice Intentional Self-Love

Aug 15, 2019 ● By Scott Stabile

When we truly commit to self-love and take steps to follow through, we can create a peaceful, joyful and meaningful life.

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Mycelium Mysteries Mushroom Retreat

Jul 31, 2019

The third annual Women’s Mushroom Conference, Mycelium Mysteries, will be presented by Midwest Women’s Herbal from September 27 through 29 at Camp Helen Brachman, in Almond, Wisconsin.

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