Lauren LaRocca

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Category: healing

October 2, 2019October 3, 2019 Flowers in the House

Medicine for the Spirit

August 16, 2019 Flowers in the House

Medicine and Magic: This atypical apothecary is a treat for the senses

November 28, 2018April 27, 2019 Flowers in the House

The Art of Healing: Notre Dame of Maryland University launches the state’s first art therapy master’s program

September 27, 2018January 6, 2019 Flowers in the House

Local Orthodonist Co-Authors Children’s Book on Overcoming Bullying

September 25, 2018January 6, 2019 Flowers in the House

Step Inside the Ornate Rowhome of Late Artist Les Harris

September 25, 2018January 6, 2019 Flowers in the House

Art Activist Jesse Krimes Brings Awareness of Mass Incarceration

September 16, 2018April 28, 2019 Flowers in the House

CAN H-TOWN KICK ITS HABIT? The worst drug epidemic in U.S. history could be a fatal blow to Hagerstown (and other towns like it).

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What I find so accurate about Human Design is this idea that we are all part of the greater whole, one of the premises I read early on and immediately resonated with. We each light up different areas of the bodygraph and therefore light up those areas in others when we are together—and ultimately we accomplish nothing entirely on our own. I’m thinking about this now because it occurred to me that in one way or another, we each rely on friends, family, and lovers to provide us with certain information, based on their interests/essence versus our own (and any gaps therein), be it political, psychological, aesthetic, or even a sense of humor. Those who know me know that I am passionate about health and healing—of ourselves and our planet, which are one in the same—not because I had an inborn interest in this area but because I have dealt with and survived many trials and tribulations at a young age with regards to my health and ultimately had to learn how to heal. Despite knowing that several people thought, or still think, I’m overreacting about COVID, I have been following it since January and had a bad feeling about it back then, not only because I’m among the population of people living with chronic illness who are taking this threat more seriously but because we are all one organism and any carelessness or naivety affects the whole. I stocked up on food weeks ago. I’m not an alarmist, I’ve not had this concern about anything in the past, and I’m not being “controlled by government fear” … part of me wonders, though, if I was just meant to be that person in your community, your circle, who is here to inform you. Do with it what you will. We are all destined to play out our roles, in one way or another. Love to you all. #covid #coronavirus #healing #humandesign

THE WAY OF TRANSFORMATION The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a “raft that leads to the far shore.” Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of practice is not to develop an attitude which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble him. On the contrary, practice should teach him to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered—that is to say, it should enable him to dare to let go of his futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose him, that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites. The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world. When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means by which we accept and welcome the demons which arise from the unconscious—a process very different from the practice of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces. Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns wholeheartedly to confront the world that threatens him with isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the possibilities of new life and Becoming opened. — Karlfried Graf von Dürckheim

I’d rather be making #zines 🧡

A walk in the sun and snow... #cholla #cactus #newmexico

#newmexicoiloveyou

Walked a dry riverbed today. Kinda beautiful, also kinda miss actual rivers. #newmexico

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