Pathways Magazine

Tonight… look up. 🌙✨

🌌 Tonight, take a moment to look up, the Moon will drift close to the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, creating a stunning celestial pairing in the night sky. It's the perfect excuse to step outside, pause for a moment, and soak in the quiet beauty of the night before midnight.

Inhale. Exhale. Activism, with its constant hypervigilance and information overload, is exhausting. Coherence — the state where body, brain, heart, mind, and awareness begin moving in harmony — can be applied as a means of self care to sustain you while engaging in resistance, as well as a tool for trauma recovery. Summer contributor Adora Winquist Soule explores this approach, the connection to aromatherapy, and her own "Tactical Alchemy", in our latest issue.

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🧬 Living longer is not the same as living well. Lifespan reflects duration, while healthspan reflects quality — preserved mobility, clear cognition, emotional resilience and stable metabolism. Summer "To Your Health" column contributor Dr. Helena Amos of Helena Amos Acupuncture and Natural Medicine Clinic lends her expertise to discuss why the true strategy for longevity is preserving coherence. Read the article to understand coherence and why it's critical for healthy aging.

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💫 Many stellar events from the Pathways Community are still coming up. Take a look at the online calendar to see where you can fit in some mind-body-spirit fun.

📆 Do you have an event to promote? Listings are just $5/ea. Use the link to check out what's coming up, or to add your own.

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History cannot be erased (although some of the powers that be sure are trying.) Recognizing and honoring Juneteenth... ✌️🫶

Juneteenth 2026: 19 June 2026 | Awareness Days Juneteenth 2026 falls on Friday 19 June 2026. Discover the history, meaning, and ways to celebrate. Full guide.

☯Both Buddhism and Hinduism offer several narratives and teachings that reflect the fluidity of gender and, ultimately, genderlessness. Summer contributor Sheer Zed provided a scholarly exploration delving into these profound and ancient traditions where the very idea of definitions, roles and fixed gender assignments evolve, dissolve and are rigorously challenged in the kaleidoscopic realms of identity, sexuality and transformation.

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🌿🌳🍀 There is a whole world of herbal edibles right under our noses in garden, medians and hedgerows. Pathways contributor Candise Jordan, owner of Farm Forage Feast, gives us a lesson in Urban Foraging for Beginners in our summer issue - check it out, and her website for upcoming talks, walks, and workshops at www.farmforagefeast.net.

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🙌 🙌 It's Monday... Who could use a mind-body-spirit pick-me-up? Read a wonderful reflection from Summer Pathways contributor Dr. Trish Hall, who invites and encourages you to bring more wonder, awe and reverence into your life.


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🌳 Summer means gathering, and gathering includes in so-called "third spaces" — a variety of informal, non-transactional, voluntary public places where anyone can meet and spend time. Summer contributor Mercedes Laney, founder of The Stillwater Room, takes a look at these vital areas, explores who uses them, and discusses who actually benefits from them.

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🌻☀A huge thank you for everyone who came out to spend the day with us at the Pathways Summer Natural Living Expo. The exhibitors, speakers, and our amazing community of attendees were glorious! Special shout out to our volunteers and the ASL Interpreter friends who were on hand to lend their hands... to our food vendors, and Halal Tikka for keeping us nourished.... and to Maria Noboa and Kim KIzzia for leading our closing ceremony and sound healing. We hope you all left with renewed and refreshed minds, bodies and spirits. Keep the joy and good vibes alive until we see you again in the fall. Take care of one another, keep fighting for our democracy and humanity. 🫶💛