{"id":37930,"date":"2025-05-02T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/?p=37930"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:45:37","slug":"wellness-what-wolf-are-you-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/2025\/05\/02\/wellness-what-wolf-are-you-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness: What wolf are you feeding?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHello beautiful, how\u2019s your heart feeling?\u201d This is the re-frame I\u2019ve been using lately to start conversations. The responses have been heavy. Many of you are feeling confused and quite frankly worried for the world. I get it. Your heart might feel like it\u2019s carrying more than you can name, and your body may be feeling the consequences of masking feelings with food, substances or screens.<\/p>\n

What do we do when things fall apart? Pema Chodron, an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun, wrote a book with that exact title: When Things Fall Apart – Heart Advice for Difficult Times. In her potent novel, Chodron explains how divorce and hardship broke her apart and how her heart helped her heal.<\/p>\n

The current state of things is also reminding me of a wise parable I heard a number of years ago which goes: One day an old man sits down with his granddaughter to teach her about life. \u201cA fight is going on inside of me,\u201d he says to the girl. \u201cIt\u2019s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil \u2013 he is full of rage, jealousy, arrogance, greed, sorrow, regret, lies, laziness, and self-pity. The other is good \u2013 he is filled with love, joy, peace, generosity, truth, empathy, courage, humility, and faith. This same fight is going on inside the hearts of everyone, including you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The granddaughter thinks about this for a few minutes, and then asks her grandfather, \u201cWhich wolf wins?\u201d The old man simply replies, \u201cThe one you feed.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when the world feels crunchy, it\u2019s important to be mindful of what wolf you are feeding. In other columns I\u2019ve addressed the fact that we don\u2019t want to ignore the \u201cevil wolf\u201d because that just makes him angrier. With compassion and love we want to acknowledge him and find safe and loving ways to help express his needs. This is where strategies such as dance, journaling, therapy or complimentary healing modalities can support you. It\u2019s also important to move into our hearts and see what the \u201cgood wolf\u201d needs. To that end, I\u2019m feeling like the world could use more \u201cgood wolf\u201d energy so I\u2019m organizing the first ever Creemore Kindness Festival.<\/p>\n

This free, family-friendly event will take place rain or shine on Saturday, June 7 from 10 am until 3 p.m. on the Creemore Village Green.\u00a0 <\/span>This festival guaranteed to put a smile on your heart will feature activities that focus on kindness to self; kindness in our community; and kindness to our planet. The festival will start with a heart-centered meditation led by yours truly, and a song circle led by Creemore\u2019s Juliette Ainsley will close the festival.\u00a0 <\/span>The Clearview Public Library will facilitate letters to seniors, and Imaginarium Adventures in Art will be offering a child focused art activity.\u00a0 <\/span>Tools For All Teens will provide youth focused offerings. Get ready to dance to live music provided Hot Pants!\u00a0 <\/span>There will be free hugs, Shelley Hannah\u2019s LoveNotes, a community clean-up, connection games and cupcakes!\u00a0 <\/span>If you have a kindness activity idea or you would like to be a kind hearted volunteer, please email nicole@purpletentwellness.com<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>Together we can strengthen our individual and community kindness muscles. In the end, it’s only kindness that matters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHello beautiful, how\u2019s your heart feeling?\u201d This is the re-frame I\u2019ve been using lately to start conversations. The responses have been heavy. Many of you are feeling confused and quite frankly worried for the world. I get it. Your heart might feel like it\u2019s carrying more than you can name, and your body may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}