Pingy-Dingy Wednesday – Mindful Self-Compassion for Femmes and Beyond!

My darling femme friend, Maria Cimino, is offering an 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion class. She’ll be teaching with her colleague, Annie Allen, and the class runs in the evening from April 12 through May 30:

https://mscphilly.com/upcoming-events

“Everyone is talking about how hard it is to find a therapist and basically manage mental health issues,” Maria says. “Although this is not a therapy group, it is theraputic. Mindful Self-Compassion is a skill that could benefit anyone who is trying to decrease stress and learn skillful ways to relax and be kinder to themselves. This class helps to strengthen the ‘compassion muscle,’ if you will, so that we remember our self-compassion practice when we need it in daily life. No experience necessary!”

Bonus: the class will be offered at a reduced price through March 31; if you bring a friend, you get ½ off the regular price; therapists receive 34 CEUs for attending.

Thank you, Maria and Annie, for offering gentle, kind, heartfelt healing to us all. You get one pingy-dingy!

I’m a typewriter whompin’, card catalogue lovin’ white girl from back in the day, and I yearn for a time before the covers of trade paperbacks were all squidgy, so you can imagine that I don’t actually understand what a pingback is. I do know that it can in some way be part of spreading the love, and since that’s what I’m all about at The Total Femme… every now and again of a Wednesday, I pay homage to the laughter and inspiration to be had elsewhere online. If you have a favorite, let me know and I’ll post it! Write to me at thetotalfemme@gmail.com.

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Meditations for Queer Femmes – Healing

Femme Love Heal World. You’ve heard me say it many a time, and each of you, my sweetest of plums, spread healing every day with your femme magic. It’s in how you notice small details. How you respond to unspoken hurts and needs. It’s in your smile and in the way you move. In how you make love. In how you receive love. Your art, your work, your genius, the air about you. Your laugh.

            Heal world and heal self.

            Today, lovebugs, sit for a moment within your busy life and ponder: is there room in the every day to receive femme healing? You give so much, so much of the time. What about you in all of that? Are you needing some queer femme tlc? If so, take a look at the work these two beautiful and generous femmes are doing and see if you might like to allow them to shower you in femme love and healing.

Maria Cimino, LICSW, is co-leading a short course in Mindful Self-Compassion, online, six weeks starting Jan. 11. There is no meditation experience needed, and for mental health professionals, 6 CEs are available for the course. “Cultivate inner strength, kindness, and resilience.” $250. For more information or to register, visit www.mcphilly.com.

Constance Clare-Newman is offering Resilience Practices for Climate Anxiety five weeks, also starting Jan. 11, also online. She will be teaching skills in self-regulation and resilience to promote the ability to reconnect, heal from burnout, breathe, be in community, and practice rest, joy, and pleasure as an antidote to pain, sorrows, and suffering. For more information or to RSVP, email constance@constanceclare.com. And please visit Embody Wholeness, where you can learn about Constance’s work with the Alexander Technique: www.constanceclare.com.

Be well, be loving to yourselves, take in the sweetness and joy around you, beloveds. And let’s say it together, shall we?

Femme Love Heal World.

Every Monday, I offer a Meditation for Queer Femmes, in the spirit of my maternal grandmother, Mimi, who was fabulous, and from whom I inherited her Meditations for Women. Would you like to offer up a Meditation of your own? I would love that! Send it along to me at thetotatalfemme@gmail.com.

Since 2016, I here at The Total Femme have done my best to post thrice a week: Meditations for Queer Femmes on Monday, Pingy Dingy on Wednesday, and Femme Friday on you know when. I’m pulling back the reins now, darlings, and going down to once a week, this Meditation. This doesn’t mean I don’t want to hear from you. Send me your poetry, your musings, your art, your wonderful you, and I will love you and hold you and feature you right here. So let me hear from you! thetotalfemme@gmail.com. And stop by on Mondays for a bit of sacred femme space.

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