wearing a snowsuit

So much learning when we can find ways to listen to our own bodies. In forgiving the ways I have constricted breath, I stumbled over my early belief that “I” live inside this body like a spirit wearing a heavy snowsuit, rigid with padding. Recognized that...

crafting the day

Am noticing the additional alertness required by self-employment, and the spaciousness it offers, knowing that by not slipping into a 9-to-5 routine I have the added opportunity and responsibility to be alert today. It is like facing a fresh easel each day, knowing...

relationship attachment and detachment

It’s interesting and paradoxical that Sue Johnson’s work uses the word “attachment” to describe the emotional bond we crave, when I am also reading in Buddhist-inspired writing about the need to be free of attachments. The apparent...

letting go

I’m growing in recognition of broad deep energy flows that connect me to this universal energy, in my understanding that there is no way I can conceptualize or control or manage adequate intention to find a place of solid certainty. Instead, my liberation comes...