Multitasking. We are all so used to doing it now, that I wonder if we forget what it is, and if it has settled into the collective blind spot.... Just a habit at this point, and one that we are training ourselves deeper into every day when we skip around on the Internet, or watch …
Category: Personal Healing Journey
An Idea: Slow Writing
One of the immaturities of my writing right now, I believe, is my impulsive tendency to rush right to the point. I think good writing is more patient than that. It's not about the end point. It's about the journey you went through to get there, both as a writer and a reader. I think …
On Pain and Real Healing
I have the utmost respect for the healer who helps the healing process unfold naturally, who is able to create and hold the space. Healing is a process that happens automatically when given the right kind of space. I see a toxicity in our modern understanding of healing, which is the application of medicine towards …
T Day Breakdown
Today is Thanksgiving Day. My day officially started around 7:15am, when my dad, Aidan and I rolled out of the house to do the Turkey Day mountain bike ride. The turkey day ride is a Thanksgiving tradition for the large mountain biking community here. It's a long, hard 3 hour mountain bike ride through Marin. …
Unwinding
"Unwinding" is a great word to describe what happens when you've been holding on and finally get a chance to relax. My muscles are releasing. I am unfurling. The couch holds me. I am so tired and want only to sleep a long time. I'm a little upset about overbooking myself with the Thanksgiving cooking …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 