by Lisa Van De Graaff | Health
Getting Real With Lisa Van De Graaff Last week, I received darshan from Amma. Amma is a living Hindu saint, an incarnation of the Divine Mother. She delivers her blessing with an embrace, a hug unlike any hug I’ve ever experienced. While I don’t consider myself to be...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Creating Balance
Getting Real With Lisa Van De Graaff In Five-Element Theory, summer is the time of fire. Fire organs include the heart, small intestine, pericardium, and the triple warmer. The heart is our source of passion and compassion, and it integrates our senses. The small...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Home and Hearth
In the coming weeks, in honor of Oprah, our contributors are going to be sharing a few of their favorite things with you. Lisa Van De Graaff came up with the idea and leads us off here… In honor of Oprah, my favorite things! by Lisa Van De Graaff Burt’s Bees...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Lisa Van De Graaff I’m on a journey. I’m searching the nooks and crannies of my inner self to find where I’ve misplaced my sensuality. I’ve been taking many paths that lead nowhere. Things that haven’t helped: eating sweets until I feel sick,...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Lisa Van De Graaff I’ve lost my sensuality. Let me be clear: I do not mean sexuality, at least not in the lusty, lewd way. I mean pleasure of the senses. I mean fully experiencing the sweetness of a spring strawberry, the intoxicating scent of...
