A Story Written Lasts Forever (a self-talk story for the heartachy times)

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing

Okay. So it might one day happen that you’re rushing through the grocery store on a school night, somewhere on your hastily scratched list between fire-roasted tomatoes and PB&J fixins’, just rolling the cart and contemplating life and what kind of cereal to buy....

The Body Knows: Honoring the Primal Wisdom of our Animal Skin

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

It was just a voice, on the phone in the other room. I sat straight up, heart pounding, whole body on alert.  The burning in my gut started right away. It was fire. Consuming. Churning. Right in the white hot root of me. There was no information. No logic. Just the...

i know nothing {wisdom for a life of beautiful uncertainty}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Love Letters + Permission

I know nothing. She is sitting in a park when I speak these words for the first time.  I picture her there.  Worn blanket hastily pulled from the trunk and hastily thrown on cool fall grass.  Leaves overhead beginning to spiral their way into the approaching dormancy...

Life + Running: 12 lessons learned by lacing up my shoes and hitting the road.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

Every summer I run several times a week along the country roads that have known me since babyhood. I can read them with my eyes closed. I know where I have to dip my head to bypass low hanging branches and where I can count on a breeze from the incoming tide. I...