This Raven’s View
The Blog
This is where I write about the things that unravel us… and what becomes possible once they do.
Divorce, money, life shifts, the cultural stories we inherited without consent. They all reflect the terrain that accompanies the quest for truth, sovereignty and alignment.
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Honoring the Energy – Good on Paper
Honoring the Energy – Good on Paper It’s easy to say that we want to follow our energy, to trust our inner guidance. As profound as this is once you settle into it, it turns…
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Practicing Discernment In The Season of Spending
Practicing discernment in the season of spending. The holidays are full of micro-expectations, relational and financial. A few days ago, I wrote about the relational pressures many women face during the holidays, especially those navigating…
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Feeling Grinchy? Feel Free to Opt Out
Whether you’re single, partnered, caregiving, grieving, or simply exhausted… If the holidays feel like a lot this year, more pressure than joy, more performance than alignment, this is for you. It starts mid-November – at…
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Beware: The Ageist That Lives Within
In recent conversations with a couple of women clients, issues of age and future career dreams have come to the surface. I’ve been grappling with this myself, so I thought it worth exploring. The overriding…
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Financial Resilience: When External Systems Feel Shaky
What exactly is financial resilience? For many people, the first thought is that they simply need more. “I’ll be financially resilient when I have so many dollars in the bank or I earn X amount…
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Values Are More than Preferences – They’re Baseline Needs
Values work is nothing new. I remember listing my top 5 values at least once during my marriage – as did my husband – in order to discover where there was a match and where…
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The Downside of Spousal Support
Yes, there is a potential downside to Spousal Support. When it comes to money, women have been trained to accept less, to want less, to expect less. It’s changing, of course, but it’s still an…
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Surrendering to What Is
I’ve been thinking about this idea of ‘surrendering to what is’ for a while now. I’ve been thinking about it because I seem to have an updated relationship to what life brings me – and…
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Loneliness and Marriage and Divorce
Marriage feels like protection, but it also creates more loneliness than you might think. By agreement it comes with walls, walls built from customs and acceptable behaviors. You and me against the world, babe, that…
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2016: The Beginning of My Unraveling
A few days ago I read through a notebook in which I had documented my study of the Gene Keys and the Venus Sequence in 2016. As I was going through it, I found a…
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Why I Stopped Looking at Weather Forecasts
Sometime in 2023, after record summer heat hit Portland, Oregon, I decided to stop looking at weather forecasts and asked friends to stop sharing them with me. That was the hardest part because there is…
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The Magic of Innate Intelligence And Aligned Actions
Because human pursuits have long been identified with conquest, nobility, and competition, much of our innate wisdom is untapped. (Adapted from “The Tao of Equus” by Linda Kohanov.) This is as true in modern times…
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Exploring Our Addiction to Productivity
Productivity, productivity, productivity. Everyone wants productivity. No doubt, it feels good to ‘be productive.’ Like the common declaration “I’m busy, but it’s a good busy,” productivity has become entwined with our notions of success as…
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Protect Yourself from the Lure of Silver Bullet Solutions
Have you ever been enticed to buy a training program, product, or service in response to the limited-time discount offer – and the promise of an altered future? This is the nature of silver bullet…
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Not about Love | About Trajectory
I know, what do I mean that it’s not about Love? Isn’t love everything? Yes, and in the broadest sense, Trajectory is about love, too. I’ll explain. In our world, the one that attaches all…
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Are you Lazy, or Do You Just Need to Rest?
Lazy or Honoring the Energy? I’ve been privy to a couple of conversations lately that remind me of how difficult it is for us humans to slow down or even stop ‘doing’ when our mood,…
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What Does Security Mean to You?
A few years ago I was encouraged to go on a “vision quest” to answer this very question, what does security mean to me? It arose after I mentioned experiencing discomfort when I contemplated having…
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The Good Life Checklist: Illusions of Normalcy
The Good Life Checklist: Unraveling Success Paradigms What do productivity pressures, illness and divorce have to do with each other? It’s a question I asked myself many times as I wondered how to bring these…
