Doctor of the Soul Blog
Cultivating Your Inner Light as the Days Grow Darker
The sunlight is fading and the daylight hours are becoming shorter. The brilliant greens of summer are fading into gold, orange, and brown. As the...
Giving Creativity a Space to Breathe
An idea appears while you're taking a walk. A melody comes into your mind while you're making breakfast. A phrase you've been carrying for months...
Nourishing the Soul: What Are You Feeding Yourself?
Are you careful about what you feed your body? Whether the food is nutritious? What the ingredients are in the dish you’re going to eat? We often...
Celebrating St. Hildegard: A Woman Who Refused to Hide her Light
On September 17th, we celebrate the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, a remarkable woman whose life continues to inspire many people more than...
Food as Medicine: St. Hildegard’s Timeless Healing Wisdom
Long before the phrase “food as medicine” became a health trend, St. Hildegard of Bingen was teaching this truth. As a 12th-century abbess,...
Welcoming Change with Grace
There is something a bit magical about late summer. The gardens are still vibrant. The days are warm. Flowers continue to bloom, and the trees are...
Friendship, Community, and the Healing Power of Connection
In our current times, we often celebrate independence and self-sufficiency. It can be easy to forget how much we actually need one another. All of...
Letting Joy Nourish Your Life
During the summer, the sun lingers longer in the sky, flowers bloom in abundance, and moments of beauty appear all around us. We often feel more of...
The Courage to Shine: Sharing Your Gifts with the World
The summer sun is shining down upon us. You may be enjoying the longer days of sunlight and time in your garden where small sprouts have grown...
The Greening Power of Spring… Tuning into the return of vitality
As winter loosens its grip and the first signs of green begin to appear, many of us feel a subtle shift within. Energy stirs. Breath feels a little...
A Woman Rooted in Wisdom: St. Hildegard In Honor of International Women’s Day, March 8th
As you have grown older, have you noticed a quiet shift? The need to explain, to please, or to prove softens. A deeper listening emerges, a trust in...
Cultivating Inner Warmth During Winter
The excitement of the winter holidays has faded and yet spring still feels far away. For many of us, a quiet fatigue might be settling in. Rather...
Soothe, Restore, Renew: Classic Fennel Tea for Digestive Healing
February often brings a longing for quiet and calm. Our bodies and spirits naturally crave gentleness and peace. This is the perfect moment to turn...
A Post-Holiday Reset for January – Nourishing Parsley Soup inspired by the wisdom of St. Hildegard
After the fullness of the holiday season with special meals, sweet treats, and joyful celebrations, January often arrives with a quiet calm. It’s...
St. Hildegard’s Healing Wisdom: Reconnecting with the Power of Nature
In our fast-paced, screen-filled world, it’s easy to feel disconnected. Disconnected from ourselves, from the earth, from the quiet rhythm of life....
Inner Harmony, Outer Strength: Inspiration from the life of St. Hildegard
Have you ever noticed that when your inner world feels peaceful and calm, you can meet life’s outer challenges with more strength and grace? When...
The Wisdom of St. Hildegard: Embracing Your Most Powerful Years (for the woman who feels a little lost, tired, or unsure of what’s next)
There comes a point in life where the world quiets down just enough for us to hear a whisper inside—one that says, “Is there more?” For many, this...
Keep the Energy Flowing In Your Chakras – Awaken Your Intuition and Tap Into Universal Energy
Your chakras are sacred energy centers—gateways where body, mind, and spirit unite. There are 7 main chakras aligned along the spine, each a...
Keep the Energy Flowing in Your Chakras: Express Yourself with Authenticity
We are vibrant beings of energy. This invisible life force flows through our bodies, supporting our vitality and well-being. At the heart of this...
Keep the Energy Flowing in Your Chakras: Feel Empowered and Compassionate
Chakras are energy centers where your mind and body meet. We can’t see them, but we can picture them as swirling vortices of energy where matter and...
Keep the Energy Flowing in Your Chakras: Feel More Vibrant and Experience Better Health
Chakras are energy centers where your mind and body meet. We can’t see them, but we can picture them as swirling vortices of energy where matter and...
5 Simple Practices to Build Resilience and Find More Ease in Stressful Times
All of us experience stress in our lives at times. But some people seem to recover from these situations more easily than others. They’re more...
How to Strengthen Your Resiliency: Your Superpower During Stressful Times
All of us experience stress in our lives at times. We have challenges that appear in our work or relationships. We become emotionally upset about a...
Feel Energized This Spring: 5 Simple Ways to Connect with Nature
The spring flowers are blooming here in Colorado, and the birds are chirping. People are heading outside to enjoy the beauty of the season,...
Reclaim Your Creative Self
Do you consider yourself a creative person, but you’ve lost a connection with this side of yourself? Maybe you’ve been busy with life and don’t seem...
5 Steps to Boost Your Creative Power
Creativity is essential to our health and well-being. As long we’re creating, we grow, develop and evolve as individuals and as a community....
Open the Door to Your Soul’s Longing for Creativity: 3 Inspiring Gems from St. Hildegard
Creativity is essential for our well-being—it nourishes our souls, energizes us, and allows us to thrive. But sometimes, we feel stuck. We lack the...
What Sparks Your Curiosity?
Creativity begins with curiosity. If you allow yourself to follow your curiosity, very soon you’ll find yourself in the midst of creativity in your...
Tap into Creativity to Deepen your Self-Love
How do you express your love to your friends and family? Do you share your appreciation of them in messages or conversation? Do you plan special...
An Easy, Nutritious Recipe to Revitalize Your Health
From her visions long ago, my creative muse, St. Hildegard of Bingen, shared with us knowledge about nutrition and natural healing in her book,...
4 Tips to Start Creativity Flowing
Do you see some people in the world and feel like they must be plugged into a stream of creativity that constantly feeds them with inspiration? And...
A Healing Boost to Start the New Year
Happy New Year! I hope it’ll be one filled with joy and fulfillment for you. To support you in entering the new year powerfully, I want to share a...
Ignite Your Creative Side in 2025!
We’re born into this world as creative beings with unlimited possibilities for expressing our creativity. Creativity’s an expression of who we are...
Bring Joy into Your Home This Winter… Enjoy St. Hildegard’s Recipe for Joy Cookies
Did you know that one of St. Hildegard cookie recipes continues to be popular today? In the 12th century, she shared a basic recipe for biscuits or...
Invite in the Light at the Winter Solstice
Today is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and it signals the beginning of the season of winter. This special day has less light than...
Finding Inspiration from St. Hildegard for Our Lives Today
Are you interested in joining the spiritual community for the upcoming Bring Spirit to the Holidays during the sacred nights of winter, but not sure...
How to Get Started Dream Journaling This Winter
The season of winter is a wonderful time to dive deeper into self-inquiry. It’s a natural time for quiet and reflection. As you move inward, you can...
Strengthen Your Intuition and Spiritual Connection: simple, everyday activities to support the brow and crown chakras
How are you doing with including simple activities in your day to support your chakras? Are you noticing a difference in your energy and mood?...
Express Yourself Authentically: Simple, everyday activities to balance the throat chakra
Are you able to express yourself clearly and authentically? Are you able to be open and honest while also being compassionate? When you have a...
Open Your Heart to More Love and Compassion: simple, everyday activities to balance the heart chakra
Chakras are the energy centers of our bodies. When energy flows to them, it fills the area with the information each chakra needs to perform its...
Balance Your Chakras and Access Your Personal Power: Simple everyday activities to balance the solar plexus energy center
The actions that you take in your everyday life will affect your energy centers. Why not choose ones that will keep you feeling energized, centered...
Balance Your Chakras to Feel Energized, Centered and Grounded : simple, everyday activities to balance the root and sacral energy centers
Did you know that the actions you take in your everyday life affect your energy centers? You can choose ones that keep them balanced so that you...
The Energy Centers in Our Bodies: Why are they so important?
Everything in your body (and also in life!) is composed of energy and information. Everything moves or vibrates with this energy. Chakras as Energy...
Honoring Endings Before New Beginnings
With Spring in the air and the excitement of setting new goals and intentions, we can get swept away with moving forward without taking time to look...
Set Yourself Up For Success
Have you been opening the door to the longing in your soul to be creative? Have you started to play and enjoy being creative often? If so, I’m so...
Tap into the Healing Power of Gratitude
The greatest and simplest thing we can do for our own health and well-being is to be grateful. To be grateful for what we have right now. Grateful...
Open the Door to the Longing of Your Soul
Do you have a creative mind? Do you just feel better when you’re exploring and engaging in something creative? It seems to boost your mood and...
St. Hildegard as Inspiration Today
Have you ever considered how powerful your creative work might be when you share it with others? How it might touch other human beings? How it might...
How Can a 12th Century Nun Be an Inspiration Today?
When I was a little girl, I remember dreaming of singing on stage and having the power of my voice inspire others. This idea terrified me, but I...
Make Your Creative Sanctuary at Home Today… It’s easy to do!
I hope you’ve been diving into something creative that you love in the last couple of weeks! Creativity is essential to our health and well-being....



















































