by Martha Brettschneider | May 14, 2024 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness
Best viewed full screen on a computer or tablet. When was the last time you surrendered to joy like you used to do as a child? Most of us lose this connection to our pure joy-filled essence sometime along the road to adulthood. But the flame of that essence we were...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 13, 2024 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
Photo by Aida L on Unsplash As part of my personal and professional infrastructure reboot over the past year in the run-up to my 60th birthday this April, I have been working to identify subtle and not-so-subtle beliefs that add stress to my life and hold me back from...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 9, 2024 | Mental Fitness
Photo credits for all images in this article: Martha Brettschneider / Damselwings Photography Standing on the coast of the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, I soaked in the power of the waves cresting and crashing on the shore. Time slowed as I watched the energy build in...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 9, 2023 | Mental Fitness
Photo: Martha Brettschneider / Damselwings Photography Who says you can’t teach old dogs new tricks? Like all assumptions that limit our personal growth, this is a lie. My sisters and I just pulled off the greatest feat of our lives: orchestrating and implementing a...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 25, 2023 | Mental Fitness
I put my photography on the back burner this year. It had become too commercially driven for my comfort level. The sense of wonder, mindful connection with nature, and playfulness that originally inspired me to make photographs seemed harder to access. I felt pushed...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 22, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
I surprised a friend recently when I told her that I was hiring someone to do my spring garden clean-up this year. This friend has known me for twenty years, so she knows that in an earlier chapter I never could have imagined not doing my own gardening. Looking back...
