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2021 September/October
Embracing Earth Medicine
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Books We Love 2021
Discover your new reading list: S&H’s guide to books we love, from upcoming titles to past favorites.
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• Books We Love
Features
Finding a New Balance
Sex therapist Tammy Nelson, author of Open Monogamy, suggests that you can have your cake and eat it too.
“Through Relationship”
Celebrated writer Ruth Ozeki’s latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, continues her tradition of “enacting the Zen teachings in the world.”
Embracing Earth Medicine
As a teen, Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz realized that her ancestral foods were medicine. Now a chef and curandera, she shares a lifetime of personal remedies and body care recipes.
Stop Suppressing, Start Examining
Faith Hunter, author of Spiritually Fly: Wisdom, Meditations, and Yoga to Elevate the Soul, offers a technique for diving deep with your demons.
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• Self-Talk
Featured Artist: Kim Ferreira
S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with New Hampshire-based artist Kim Ferreira about foxes and racoons, happy paintings, phonographs, and more.
Ayahuasca Does Not Deceive
Amazonia expert explores ayahuasca from the perspective of an elder of the indigenous Shawi people.
Show Up for Yourself First
The black box is awkward at best and excruciating at worst. But it’s where change happens.
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• Self-Love
From The Editor
From the Editor: earth and Earth
“Language is an imprecise tool. Sometimes it buckles a little under the strain of meaning.”
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• Earth
Columns
A Coequal Helpmeet
Rabbi Rami Shapiro answers questions from S&H readers. “I’m engaged to a man I met in Bible study. He asked me to be his helpmeet the way Eve was Adam’s helpmeet (Genesis 2:18) ... What do you think he means?”
When Life Is a Hurricane, Stay in the “I”
When your life feels like it’s getting to be too much ... simply stay in the “I” of the hurricane.
Slowly Is the Way
Don’t rush to cultivate your gifts in an effort to accomplish or secure what you want or dream of. Slow down to meet the world through what you’re given and your beauty will be released.
Dancing to Songs Stuck in Your Head
“Our human emotional system, at times, is wired to lead us to embrace the three poisons without thinking of the consequences.”
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• Self-Talk
Becoming Moon-imals
What might we gain from considering ourselves in the same way, affected by both our earthly presence and the influence of the moon?
Connections
Thistle Seed and This’ll Seed
Playing with language can be a powerful way to reframe burdensome thoughts.
Circles and Synchronicities
In a week of both tragic and comedic karma, Keith Kachtick awakens to the circular nature of the Universe and our existence in it.
