Category: On the Topic of Home
Posted on February 11, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Inshallah, if God wills, I am writing to you from Italy: the land I fell in love with at the beginning of Covid-19. This time, I bring a piece of home with me.
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Posted on February 4, 2022
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Just because you’re got at a job doesn’t mean you’re meant to do that job forever. Living a purposeful life where your work is a calling requires taking chances and starting over.
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Category: Love & Belonging, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of Home, WorkTags: apurposefullife, belonging, career, findinghome, fittingin, purposedrivenlife, startingover, thesoulscode, thewritinglife, vocation, Work, writing
Posted on February 2, 2022
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Finding Home In Our Beloved and The Three Lessons That Pie Baking Teaches Us: A guest post by Kate McDermott, author of The Art of the Pie.
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Category: Food, Leaving Home, Love & Belonging, On the Topic of Home, TravelTags: artofthepie, bakingpie, belonging, chancemeetings, findinghome, internationaltravel, ireland, katemcdermott, lessonsofpie, lifelessons, loveandbelonging, meetingstrangers
Posted on January 29, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Whether you’re a power cleaner, a compulsive cleaner, or a daily tidy-upper, cleaning house doesn’t have to be so complicated. But the best cleaning starts with two simple steps.
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Category: Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: BillLemkephoto, BillLemkephotographer, buddhistwisdom, cleanhouse, cleaninghouse, cleanmind, findinghome, home, Lettinggo, radicalprayer, ThichNhatHanh
Posted on January 23, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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I discovered mold in my home last week, at first forcing me to let go of some things. But then I had a choice of what to keep and what to release. And choice is hard.
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Posted on January 15, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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I spent most of my life not feeling comfortable with how I look. The currently popular #10YearChallenge is helping me appreciate my face and find a sense of home in it.
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Category: Love & Belonging, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: 10yearchallenge, aging, beauty, facerecognition, finding, home, wellbeing, yourface, youth
Posted on December 30, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Over the years, when I talk about my work researching the psychology of home, inevitably someone will say, “Home is inside you.” Yes, I smile. This is true. It took many years for me to experience this truth. One can know something intellectually but… Continue Reading “Home is Inside You”
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Category: featured, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: aloneness, beingalone, findinghome, home, homeinsideyou, interiority, solitude, wellbeing, wellness
Posted on December 27, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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The best gifts are those that transcend a holiday. These are the ones that make us feel seen, heard, known, and celebrated.
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Posted on December 21, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Celebrating the Winter Solstice because light helps us find the way home.
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Category: Holidays, Love & Belonging, Myth, On the Topic of HomeTags: Greek mythology, herecomesthesun, Holidays, japanesemythology, mythology, Solstice, solsticestories, storiesoflight, winterholidays, wintersolstice
Posted on December 19, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Wherever you are on this side of the equator, it’s dark. May you put aside your distractions and settle into the night. Darkness is a gift.
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Posted on October 31, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of remembering. To love is to remember. To be remembered is to live. To be loved is to be home.
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Category: Death & Dying, Holidays, Love & Belonging, Meditations on LivingTags: allhollowseve, allsaintsday, altars, death, diadelosmuertos, diademuertos, family, friends, Holidays, lovedones, ofrendas
Posted on October 25, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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What do Harry Potter, Little Women, and Lady Bird have in common? They all have interesting representations of Mom. The nurturing, baking cookies,always there with a hug kind of mom.
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Category: On the Topic of Home, ParentsTags: ArchetypalMother, ArchetypalPsychology, archetypes, Demeter, DemeterandPersephone, DemeterMother, findinghome, GilmoreGirls, Greek mythology, Greekmyth, HarryPotter, home, homearchetype, individuation, JungianPsychology, LadyBird, leavinghome, LittleWomen, Mom, motherarchetype, MrChurch, Myth, Persephone, TroopZero, Wherethewildthingsare
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