It was a sleepy afternoon as she told me her story again. It’s the kind of story that still echoes, even decades later. Almost twenty-five years ago, her husband had an affair with a family friend. He left her, married the woman, and never looked back. “I will never trust a man with my heart…
I just got done putting a batch of apples in my slow cooker. For the past week, I’ve been thinking about how delicious they’d taste on my Greek yogurt… warm, cinnamon-dusted apples melting into cool creaminess. But I just couldn’t get myself to do the simple, physical work of walking to the store, choosing the…
Nightmares have haunted me for most of my adult life. I’ve been known to smash through glass windows in my sleep with my bare hands. I’ve “saved” family and friends from imaginary disasters… pushing them off the side of the bed to protect them from falling fridges, or running and screaming through the house to…
Language is a funny thing. We slap labels on ways of life that already exist. We give names to ideas, but the spirit of them often lived long before the words ever arrived. My parents would never have called it slow living. In fact, my mum laughed recently when we were talking about my slow…
I was first drawn to the idea of slow living because, quite frankly, I just needed to slow down. At the time, I didn’t even realize it was a thing. I hadn’t read a book about it. I hadn’t followed any influencers preaching its gospel. I’d only heard whispers. A few murmurs online about “the…
I’m writing this from a hotel room in Bend, Oregon, where I’m spending a few days with my beautiful friend Carmen. She’s also a Life Coach, and we’re here co-hosting an in-person workshop for a group of our coaching clients. On the plane over here I wondered how it might be possible for me to…
Hi, I’m Candis. I’m a Life Coach and Embodiment Teacher for women. I share stories of love, healing, and the transformative power of stillness. Join me in slowing down, coming home to the body, and reclaiming life, one day at a time.
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