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Why Creativity Matters
The space between the world of form and the world of the unseen has always fascinated me. When I was a child, I would spend hours in tall pine trees swaying in the wind. Hugging the trees, I could feel them talking to me. This communication beyond my ordinary senses...
Why Creativity Matters
The space between the world of form and the world of the unseen has always fascinated me. When I was a child, I would spend hours in tall pine trees swaying in the wind. Hugging the trees, I could feel them talking to me. This communication beyond my ordinary senses nourished me in a way that other childhood pleasures could not. I felt at home in the indescribable. The sense of oneness I experienced with the trees allowed me to relax into myself. Cradled among the branches, I felt no sense of...
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Do I Need a Spiritual Practice?
One way to become more resilient and stay more grounded while navigating the daily struggle is to have a serene space to return to daily. This space can be a physical space and can also be a mental space. The habit of returning to serenity every day is what I think of...
Sixteen
For the four voices off-key and laughing singing happy birthday to the 16-year-old boy quarantined in the pouring down rain. Even though we wrapped his gifts and I had made his favorite dinner and the best angel food cake I've ever made, there was a longing. There...
Break With to Break Through
My youngest son is 9 years old and, as many children are, wise beyond his years. A few months ago, when I was completing the final work to publish the Essential Light Oracle Deck, I had rewound my way to an old stress pattern. It was perhaps the third night that week...
I Just Can’t Talk About It
This blog post was inspired by a writing exercise from Laurie Wagner’s Wild Writing online course. She read the poem The Little Details by Stephen Dunn to us as a prompt. A woman can’t talk about her dead son everyday even though there is so much to tell. There’s a...
The Patched Together Smile
The Patched Together Smile Trying to hide the damage from this has been the most precarious dance of my life. In the journey back to being normal, presentable, okay, I’ve left behind everyone who doesn’t understand that my life isn’t. I weed them out, the ones who ask...
Five Months
Yesterday was five months since you died, Oliver. I have never counted time this way before. I have four times had the joy of counting months enveloped in the sweet fragrance of baby wash and warm blankets while knowing stares yielded to heartfelt giggles. Then...
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Hi, I’m Jen Ripa
I’m a grief guide, life coach, artist, and writer, but really, I help women rediscover hope and a powerful version of themselves.
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