dr. wendy pabich

EDITION #03

Hello, Subscriber First Name,

As you find healing and expansion in reconnecting with family and friends, moving about in the world, and resuming some of your pre-pandemic activities, I invite you to call in discernment. This re-emergence provides an opportunity to choose differently, to find greater alignment, to let go of things that no longer serve your highest self.

How might you better honor your mind, body, and soul? Where might you call in greater discernment in service to deeper connections, more meaningful work, greater joy?

As you contemplate this, I invite you to look to water for her wisdom. 

With water love,

Wendy

Water Wisdom: What You Water Thrives

Water is our lifeblood.

This verdant meadow is tucked away in a drainage not all-that-far from pockets of development and the increasingly-desertified agricultural lands of Idaho’s high alpine desert. A short walk into the surrounding forested slopes revealed everything the news is telling us—the soils are so desperately dry and friable—and far too early in the summer—that the threat of wildfire and disease looms large and scary.

I camped here overnight and received the gift of recharge. I recognize I am incredibly fortunate to both reside in this kind of oasis and to have spent a life in deep connection with the natural world.

So many of us are so disconnected from nature and its lifeblood and are so surrounded by the trappings of the modern world we struggle to fully grasp what is amiss in our lives. Why do we feel so disconnected and full of grief? Why are we so physically unhealthy? Why are our relationships suffering?

The answers to these questions come easily as you spend more time outside. And, I mean anywhere outside. It is hard not to look at this lush meadow and its dainty little stream and see the life-giving magic of water, and further to ask: What in my life am I watering? Am I nurturing my loves? Am I honoring the important people in my life? Am I choosing a life-affirming path? Am I serving a greater good? Am I healing myself? Or, by contrast: Am I feeding the maw of capitalism? Giving relentlessly to others while failing to nourish myself? Am I disconnected not just from nature but from myself?

In all of it, please remember that what you water thrives. Choose well. (And, conserve water.)

Check out this and other blog posts here.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

~ Rumi

Finding Ease. 36” x 24” x 1.5”. Acrylic, charcoal, and China marker on raised wooden panel and aquaboard.

Among the many lessons water teaches is the beauty of finding ease—in all we do. The more we water what we love, the more capacity we have for ease. The process of painting this piece provided a mirror for exploring my own sense of ease in a culture that favors the grind. For more about the process and intention behind this piece, please check out my video on Instagram.

Available for $1,900. Please contact me if you’d like to bring the energy of ease into your space.

I’ve been receiving wonderful feedback from some of you, including the gift of your own water wisdom. I loved this one from Rod Nash:

We say on the river that water always wins. A dam is a minor block compared to the mile of rock the river cleared away.

~ Roderick Nash

[Rod is considered America's foremost wilderness historian, author of the classic Wilderness and the American Mind, and former Colorado River guide (with ~80 trips!)]. 

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If you feel so inspired, I’d love to hear from you with feedback about the newsletter and what it brings up for you, your own water wisdom, and any other thoughts you’d like to share.