Heather Ruce

This week we moved from the tender twelve days of Christmas proceeding December 25th, in which we linger in the preciousness of the...

It is a new year. Although it may not feel like the fresh start that many have been hoping for as the pandemic surges on and we are still...

I hope that you had a meaningful Christmas amidst what was likely a loss of continuity in traditions and celebrations. I hope that you...

Both light and darkness are emerging, are necessary, are luminous, are beautiful. We are meant for both. Today we enter the final week...

It is the third week of advent, this precious season of waiting, hoping, expecting renewal, preparing, watching, waking up, pondering,...

Today marks the second Sunday of the season of Advent. There are traditionally themes for each Sunday during the four weeks acknowledged...

I hope your week has been full of giving thanks and gratitude for the simple joys of life in the midst of all the changes in holiday...

All is well and all is not well. We are fine and we are not fine. These realities can be true at the same time. . . As we enter this week...

I am encouraged by the spiritual deepening happening in our world. Many people are seeing the need to move beyond our usual ways of...

We all feel the stress, the squeeze, the stretching. . . in very similar and collective ways as well as very different and particular...

I hope that the practices of observing unnecessary tension in the body, emotions, and thoughts have been useful to you. We engage these...

I don’t need to remind you that there is a lot going on in our world. I keep hearing people say, “it’s too much.” I may sound like a...

I hope the practice of observing 'unnecessary tension in the body' was useful to you. This practice comes from the Gurdjieff tradition...

Last week I mentioned that it seems we are in a collective dark night of the soul. Whenever we go through difficult periods, both...

From the onset of the pandemic I have had a wondering about whether we were entering a collective ‘dark night of the soul.’ Saint John of...

Be gentle with yourselves. We are in the middle of a PANDEMIC, that is baseline. We are in the middle of polarized politics. We are...

This continues to be a profound time of polarization and uncertainty politically, socially, physically, economically, and so forth. As...

Dear ones, I hope in the midst of your 4th of July weekend celebrations that you have taken some time to reflect on what freedom really...

Click here to see the original post from Northeast Wisdom. WRITTEN BY HEATHER RUCE & SUSAN LATIMER Welcome to Chapters VII, VIII and the...

My heart is heavy dear ones, There is so much going on right now between the political turmoil, ongoing climate emergency, global...

At the start of the pandemic, one of the people in our community shared that she had been working with her mom to use one of her mom's...