Fear is an opportunity to change your mind. At the first moment you feel fear, envisioning an upcoming challenge, or something that would be out of your comfort zone, for instance... your mind wants to turn and look at the possibilities for what could go wrong. In that moment, you have another option, and it …
Category: November 2018 Writing Challenge
Religious Exploration & Surrender
I want to write about some of the gems I’m finding in my search for religion lately, and I find myself hitting a bit of an internal wall about it. I fear that religious language is triggering of a negative response in people, maybe people I know and am friends with. It would have been …
Shadow Work
Today, and the past few days, I'm thinking about my shadow. My dark side. My repressed self. Whatever you want to call it. The idea of shadow work is that there are aspects of ourselves we easily accept, and aspects we don't. The parts of ourselves we don't accept we instead repress; they live in …
Procrastination pt 2
I'm angry at myself tonight for what I perceive as a weakness. Once again it's the end of the day and my writing is happening seemingly as an afterthought. It could have been injected into my day earlier, but I let myself go lazily along with the flow and put it off. I'm angry at …
Reflections on Finding My Voice
We're midway through the month of November, which means the writing challenge is mid-swing and halfway done. Life has been extra wild again, lately. Last month I tried to put some 'structure' in my life by waking up early and exercising most days of the week. That felt very grounding. I feel a little bit …
The End of the Day: A Prayer
I trust that today was enough. That I am enough. This moment at the end of the day is nothing but beautiful. It is filled with the weighted blanket of my own fatigue, saturating me. I want to lie down in bed and release the events of the day from my body. I want to …
Be A Beginner
Some days are harder than others, weirder than others. Tonight I feel tired. I skipped my MMA class that I normally religiously go to, and I felt guilty about it. I made relatively careless mistakes at work and in my personal life in the last week. Tonight my head was just in the clouds. It …
Food Rituals Part 2 // Back To The Very Beginning
It's funny... mindful eating is something I've really resisted, despite my interest in meditation and other mindfulness practices. I've been introduced to the concept of mindful eating many times, and it's always made sense to a part of me, while another part of me has rejected it, saying, 'That's too hard. I like my food …
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Food Rituals Part 1
I'm a believer in ritual. We talk a lot about habits in our culture. For the purpose of this piece, I'll say ritual is something akin to habit. It's a rhythm. It's a way of doing something. But where habits can be conscious or unconscious, ritual is always intentional. A ritual is an intentionally created …
Kids These Days
It is quiet. I am all by myself. My energy is waning. I don't know what will end up coming out of this writing session. I have my doubts. But it's time to show up anyway! Nothing gets written if I keep waiting instead of doing. The air in the house is not full of …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 