Lovebomb | Laundry With Purpose
Practicing mindfulness can benefit everyone, but it’s especially helpful if you tend toward anxiety or depression. Often, when we are engaged in a mundane physical task [...]
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Guilt Cake and Anxiety Blankets
There is nothing to slam you back into the fleshy reality of your earth suit like a plain old ordinary cold. Have you seen a strung out two year old tearing around in a [...]
This Is a Safe Place | For Here, Please
Two weeks ago, during a massage that felt about four years overdue, I voiced a struggle to let go of tension. Lori, the gifted massage therapist tending to me, said something [...]
Bearing Witness
It’s really uncomfortable to sit with someone else’s pain. I don’t like feeling helpless. I ache to fix, and when I can’t, I squirm. I think about the days I used to [...]
A New Super Power | Joyful Meditation
The night air is just cool enough that I don’t break a sweat, even at a 15-minute mile pace – brisk for walking, and it is soft with the possibility of rain. Maybe it [...]
What’s Your Hurry? | The Persistent Optimist
The backroads from my son’s school to our home are exquisite: hilly and finally green, since we’ve gotten just enough rain to stave off the drought-yellow crisp of last [...]
Entertain The Present | For Here, Please
I’m running late but actually walking, on my way to meet Nancy and Kim for one of our writing sanctuary days. The sun warming my nose mitigates the distress in my heart [...]
