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    How Travel can change your life by Regina Tingle
    Regina Tingle
    • Dec 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    How Travel can change your life by Regina Tingle

    “The journey is my home.” – Muriel Rukeyser Back in 2000, the first few months I studied abroad in Italy, Mad Cow Disease was spreading...
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    Making Space for the Creative Self
    Regina Tingle
    • Feb 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Making Space for the Creative Self

    Once while on a writing retreat, under the canopy of a star-studded night sky, I had a spontaneous heart to heart conversation with a...
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    One of the Most Rewarding Gifts
    Regina Tingle
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    One of the Most Rewarding Gifts

    One of the biggest, most rewarding gifts I have ever given myself was a 10-day meditation retreat.  It was a silent retreat so I wasn't...
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    Nature as Our Medicine Cabinet by Ben Caesar
    Regina Tingle
    • Apr 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Nature as Our Medicine Cabinet by Ben Caesar

    My work as a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon means I spend long hours in the glare of fluorescent lighting, with no windows to the outside...
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    Holding On and Letting Go: life lessons from Finland
    Regina Tingle
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    Holding On and Letting Go: life lessons from Finland

    One instruction. Maybe two: hold on at all times. Bear down with your body weight on the brake if you need to slow down. But most...
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    Magnetic North: Finding My Flow In Finland
    Sarah Ratermann Beahan
    • Jan 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Magnetic North: Finding My Flow In Finland

    I live in the coldest state in the lower 48. This morning I woke up and the “real feel” was -15F. It gets dark at 4:30PM. And next week...
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    New Year's Resolutions?
    Regina Tingle
    • Dec 27, 2018
    • 1 min

    New Year's Resolutions?

    What if, instead of a New Year’s ‘resolution,’ we made a full-hearted intention?  Resolutions don’t work because they’re based on the...
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    The Rundown on Retreats
    Regina Tingle
    • Dec 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Rundown on Retreats

    If you look at Google's search results in the US, when people Google the word "retreat" most people are actually wondering what the heck...
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    Your Dancing Electric Self
    Regina Tingle
    • Dec 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Your Dancing Electric Self

    Creativity: the path to fulfilment When I was twenty-two and I’d just graduated college I remember sitting in front of the computer day...
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