Self Care Connecting at the Tender Places “Listen to me,” the woman said. She laid her hand briefly on my arm, like a lighting butterfly – just long enough so that I Nanea Hoffman Posted on November 27, 2019
Self Care The Gift of Solidarity Somehow, I’d ended up in an office supply store. Like a migratory bird, I head to the nearest Office Max when things get Nanea Hoffman Posted on November 19, 2019
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | I Can Still Feel That You would think, with the number of surgeries and painful medical procedures I’ve undergone in the last few years, that I Nanea Hoffman Posted on December 11, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | What There Is in Front of You I’ve always been afraid of swirling wind. It’s not a reasonable fear, like you might have if you live in tornado country, or Nanea Hoffman Posted on November 19, 2018
Life, Self Care What Grows in the Light I lay in the makeshift recovery room, watching the dust motes dancing in the afternoon sun as the light came slanting in Nanea Hoffman Posted on November 5, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | What You’ve Got My daughter sits, sweaty-faced and tear-streaked, allowing me to stroke her hair as she breathes in one-two-three and out Nanea Hoffman Posted on October 16, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | Taking Up Space One of the things I learned during the years I lived in Japan was how to survive the crushing press of humans while riding Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 20, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | Finding the Edges of You Becoming yourself is not an easy task. No one tells you how to do it. There are no instructions or diagrams, no L-wrenches Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 14, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | What the Pain Leaves Behind For a very long time – until recently, actually, I believed that I had to live without regret. That loving the person I am Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 6, 2018
Life, Self Care Bits of Gratitude | What Are You Waiting For? So much of our lives is spent waiting. For the perfect moment, for the right time, for this one to be the one that counts. Nanea Hoffman Posted on July 9, 2018