BODY TALK. My body is always talking, 24/7. Am I listening?! Tending the body-mind connection supports being well and making healthful choices each day. The benefits of any particular choice for a health or healing regimen, are enhanced by attuning to inner guidance. Whether that focus results in reaching for…

It was my first time back to the community clinic for acupuncture since the pandemic. And my first time anywhere else, indoors, around a group of people, without masks, there for healing a variety of symptoms. I noted the entrance table, with covid-abating supplies, and two other patients, in the…

by Marcia Singer, MSW, CHt I was in a good mood. I’d just had a lovely, nature walkabout on a surprise sunny day, and my thoughts had turned to satisfying my tummy next. I’d drive up the road and buy some local, organic chicken for dinner. I envisioned a package…

When I dislike what someone else is expressing, before I kneejerk and point a disapproving finger to blame, shame or defame them for paining me, I try to pause, breathe, and ask myself: “What’s the root source of this discomfort?” Cherished values and related needs await my deeper acknowledgment and…

MY JEWISH CHRISTMAS made this Yid kid more right in her own skin By Marcia Singer, MSW Christmas this past year was special for me: It made me more Jewish! It made this Yid kid more right in her own skin, giving me back some missing soul pieces. The holiday…

“Marcia Sue, stop that shuckling!” I still hear that voice so clearly in my head, and that Yiddish word, but don’t recall who it belonged to. Only how my habit of rocking myself in the car (and other places) was a cause for disapproval — even some alarm, though I…

Marcia Singer, MSW Polyamory is a topic fraught with misunderstanding and prohibition, entangled in religious, political, societal mores. And while we now recognize a “spectrum” for conditions like autism, few societies acknowledge the wholly natural spectrum of human sexual expression or gender identification, or the variety of love partners that…

Exploring the alchemy of an odd, amorous coupling My former boyfriend and I were an odd couple. We seemed different in so many ways. I was a vegetarian who ate health foods and grew my own organic herbs. Tom “ate anything,” much to my dismay. I was more of an introvert, caught up in my inner world of…

The first time I saw them kiss, my life changed forever…. Most of us take for granted the possibility of falling in love and sharing the thrill of holding hands and kissing for the first time. We think nothing of fantasizing about even a whole lot more, and expect that…